Leonard Pierce

If it makes you feel any better it mostly takes place on a completely invented suburb

Lionel Hutz saying "I'll let you in on a little secret, Marge: the right crime is the one you're investigating; the right suspect is the one you already arrested."

How cops work

If one cop says "this one is a slam dunk, we have his text messages and he just got access to the murder weapon last week and he lied to us about X and Y", 999,999 cops out of a million aren't gonna say "i dunno it doesn't feel right". They're gonna say "great let's go get Dunkin"

I'm enjoying DTF ST. LOUIS so far mostly for the acting and the extremely weird vibe but I'm getting really bored with the pretense that cops want to solve crimes or find the real killer or any of that shit. They do not!

Don't steal from the working class. Otherwise keep your mouth shut

What world do you live in, our entire society is built on unthinkable degrees of theft and you don't think we should do out of politeness to the people who steal your wages, steal your land and charge you to live on it, steal your health, steal your peace of mind, and steal your life. Absurd

"Don't steal from Whole Foods"

"Don't shoplift"

Grow up

My hero

Disagree

"Oh but Leonard what about how these people are bad"

They're all bad, they're all capitalists, and tech corner office capitalists at that, they're best of them is fucking awful, that will never change. If you hate it just leave

Who gives a shit, you can hit the bricks, pick up a foot ball, etc.

Posting about how bad the site you post on is the lowest rung of boring discourse, it's like four million levels below describing a dream you had but can't really remember to someone you just met

Here is my statement about the new BlueSky CEO:

Who care

This barely had enough plot for a half hour sitcom

They're smug about everything, why should this be any different

So I guess THE ROOSTER is a show about an alternate universe where Michael Scott actually writes a bunch of THREAT LEVEL MIDNIGHT books

Quote of the Day:

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is also the thing that makes you lonely.” (Lorraine Hansberry)

In history today, thousands of women went on strike throughout Mexico to protest workplace misogyny and sexual harassment in 2020.

The noir of the day is 1959’s TIGER BAY, directed by J. Lee Thompson for Rank Film Distributors and starring Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills, and John Mills.

A tall shagbark hickory tree in a botanical garden. The tree has yellow-orange fall leaves.

Good morning! It is March 9th in the United Socialist States of America.

Today we commemorate Genealogy Day. Learn the history of your family!

We celebrate the shagbark hickory, carya ovata.

Ornette Coleman was born on this day in 1930; Robert Mapplethorpe died today in 1989.

Always fun to remember that Andrew Tate has gotten mad online at both Elmo and Greta Thunberg, the human Elmo

This is not America's first time at the kill them all rodeo

ME: We want communism

THE US GOVERNMENT: You cannot have communism, it is bad and does evil things

ISRAEL: We will kill 100 million people so our religious ethnostate can build more condos

ME: Who are these guys

THE US GOVERNMENT: Our closest ally

We've been saying for so long: "Socialism or barbarism". Well, it's not a theoretical. The barbarism is here. We are inflicting it on the entire planet. This system demands it. Either it goes or we go, and the bosses have made their choice in the matter.

You gotta wake up. You gotta. Develop an ideology and put it into practice. Read history. Join with community organizers. Stop thinking pressing the right button once every four years is gonna save us. If you ever claimed to care about this shit, the time is fucking now to do something about it.

I dunno what to tell you anymore if you still think this is a partisan issue, or that it is not completely of a piece with trans rights and what's happening with Venezuela and Cuba and China and Africa and everywhere else, or that we can fix it by voting some centrist Democrat into office

I say "we" advisedly. Israel is our ally. We are doing this in conjunction with them, just as we helped them in any way we could to perform a genocide against Palestine. This is an official act of the American government that has gone on for decades, it's not some abstraction or aberration

Israel saying "we will kill the new leadership of Iran no matter who it is" should tell you everything you need to know about what kind of war we are fighting

I mean come on

I feel like people on JEOPARDY! are getting dumber

Quote of the Day:

“Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.” (James Joyce)

In history today, thousands of communist women flood St. Petersburg square to commemorate the first International Women’s Day in 1917.

The noir of the day is 1947’s PURSUED, directed by Raoul Walsh for Warner Bros. and starring Judith Anderson, Robert Mitchum, and Teresa Wright.