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So, we know that for years I called Carlos Mister Magoo, as his eyesight progressively got worse … hey, it’s a term of endearment, and he knows it.

Well, this past Monday he went out to clean poop from the yard where Ozzo grazes; Ozzo has been confined to a small spot in the yard because he gets out, and we cannot find the spot, and with his bad eyesight, something awful could happen.

So, Carlos was cleaning poop, and came back in the house and told me his new name was:

Mister MagooPoop.

And so it is …

Back in June of 2010, I posted this about The Great Tuxedo:

“Artist's Model

Years ago, in San Francisco, a friend and I stumbled upon a cool little furniture store in the Mission, where I saw this piece of wrought iron sculpture called "Twisted Kitty."

I bought it instantly.

This morning, finding Tuxedo on the floor, I wondered if, in one of his Nine Lives, he'd been the inspiration.”

That cat could contort himself into so many positions.

On Fourth of July, the Republican Party’s official Twitter account posted this:

“247 years ago, our forefathers told Ol’ King George to get lost! Happy Independence Day from the GOP!”

Nice, I guess, but the flags they used in their graphic were not American flags but Liberian flags. Yes, the GOP can’t spot an American flag to save their lives.

Now a Confederate flag on the other hand …

A gunman armed with an AR-style rifle and a handgun and wearing a bulletproof vest killed five men and injured a toddler and teenager in a mass shooting in Southwest Philadelphia this week.

Just another day in the United States of Guns.

PS There were a total of sixteen mass shootings on Independence Day.

In Wyoming, for now, abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming after a judge ruled that the state’s first-in-the-nation law to ban them won’t take effect as planned while a lawsuit proceeds.

In Florida a federal court blocked the state’s new drag show law, ruling the state’s effort to bar children from attending drag shows, or readings, is overly vague and likely unconstitutional. That news came one day after another federal court overturned a DeSantis-backed law prohibiting gender-affirming care treatment from being covered by Medicaid.

In Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation to ban libraries from banning books. Banning bans; I like that.

In Kentucky, a federal judge has blocked the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth from taking effect.

In Michigan, Nexstar Media Group fired one of its television news directors who sent out a memo urging reporters to lessen their coverage of Pride Month because the stories were upsetting conservative viewers.

Is anyone surprised about this? In a Supreme Court facing ethics challenges with at least four conservative justices, now comes the news that Lorie Smith’s, the website designer, case of denying service to a gay couple was an utter and complete lie.

The case [303 Creative LLC v. Elenis] was a hypothetical case about what might happen if a gay couple asked bigot and homophobe Bible-thumping Lorie Smith to design a website for their wedding.

Yes, the Supreme Court  ruled on a “what if” but if we vote, and if we get more than 67 Democrats in the Senate there could be a change to these grifting, lying, rogue, ruling for cash Justices. Impeach them.

After picking her son up from school one day, the mother asks him what he that day and he says:

"I had sex with my teacher."

The mother is furious and when they get home, she orders him to go straight to his room to wait until his father gets home. When the father gets home, the mother angrily tells him the news of what their son had done. As the father hears the news, a huge grin spreads across his face and he goes to his son's room and asks him what happened at school.

"I had sex with my teacher."

“Oh, son, I’m so proud of you, and so I am going to buy you that bicycle you’ve been wanting.”

On the way to the store, the dad asks his son if he would like to ride his new bike home, and the son says:

"No thanks Dad, my butt still hurts."

I warned you.

The Barbie movie opens soon and while I won’t be seeing it—it seems too cutesy and whimsical and, well, kinda dumb—there are some attractive men in it. So this week we’ll play Which One Would you Hit? We’ll start in the upper left corner and move clockwise through the mens, starting with Ryan Gosling, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Conner Swindells. In full transparency I’d pick Kingsley Ben-Adir because he’s hot and he also satisfies my Barack Obama fantasies. Now it’s your turn …