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As Mistress Maddie said in a comment yesterday, hot gay British journalist James Longman proposed to his boyfriend fiancé, Alex Brannan, yesterday.

James Longman—and I believe the last name suits him—has long been one of my boyfriends—and as I told Carlos about the engagement, I then had to tell him again who James Longman was …

“You know how when we watch GMA and I squeal like a schoolgirl about my boyfriend being on TV? That’s James Longman. And now he’s gonna be a Husband-In-My-Head.”

Carlos said:

“It’s must be getting pretty crowded up there.”

And he’s not wrong.

Here’s Alex and James, the happy cute couple.

Tuxedo has been trying to explain the asshattery of All Lives Matter on Facebook for weeks now … this time he chose a direct route.

I’ve always called them The Chicks, just because I wanted to, but now it appears that the artists formally known as the Dixie Chicks are now officially The Chicks. If you didn’t know, and how could you not, the word “Dixie” is commonly used as a nickname for the Southern United States, mostly regarding those that composed the Confederate States of America.

So, The Chicks can now be found on Twitter at @thechicks, and their website has been redirected to thechicks.com. In addition, The Chicks released ‘March March,’ a new song that features footage from protests through the years and up to today, naming both George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in the lyrics.

March, march.

I was watching a movie called The Weekend over the, um, weekend, and learned a new word to describe my need to accept no responsibility for my actions: I’m Alibipolar.

That’s all.

Well, well, well … the Mississippi legislature has voted to remove Confederate symbol from the state flag. And Governor Tate Reeves, has said he would sign the legislation into law. Mississippians will vote on a replacement flag in the November election and the current design cannot be an option.

That’s my idea up there.

Still, there is a move to make sure the phrase ‘In God We Trust’ will be somewhere on the flag, totally ignoring that whole Separation of Church and State thing. Oh well, baby steps … 

I was sitting in a parking lot waiting on Carlos and a woman came out of the store and raised her hand, holding her keys, to unlock her car because, apparently, she’d forgotten where she parked. She raised that hand, pointed and clicked … nothing; raised it again, pointed and clicked …nothing.

I was tempted to toot my car horn just to fuck with her. And if I got caught? Alibipolar.

I was watching GMA the other day and there was another viral video of a Karen at Trader Joe’s shrieking and whining about having to wear a mask because she has a medical condition and you’re gonna get sued and she’s not a sheep and … you get it.

After the video, they brought on the GMA doctor, Jen Ashton,  who calmly explained that if your breathing issue didn’t preclude you from being outside then you don’t have an issue breathing. But then she nailed it further by saying:

“And if you can shriek at Trader Joes employees at the top of your lungs about having a health issue that precludes you from wearing a mask, you don’t have a health issue. You can breathe just fine.”

Snap, Karen.

Why? WHY????

Because the first two films made a combined $1 billion around the world, there will be a third Mamma Mia movie.

Haven’t I suffered enough? Lockdown? Furloughed from work? And now this?

Under lockdown, with case rates climbing every day, I have little desire to set foot outside unless I must, so I watched a couple of films with hotties the other day…

The first was Official Secrets was about an woman who worked for the British government and released secret intel to prove that England, and the United States, lied about the WMD in Iraq, and lied about Saddam Hussein’s involvement in 9/11, to force that illegal war. Good film, but, again, it had some good-looking men [top left and top right] in Adam Bakri and Matt Smith—who has been here before..

The second was The Weekend, where I found my new tagline—see earlier Bobservation above—with two delicious mens [lower left and lower right] Tone Bell and Y’lan Noel. The movie was cute funny, at times, but needed a few more laughs, so I focused on those two and found myself, um, interested.

Lockdown can provide some nice views if you’re looking in the right direction.

The Dixie Chicks and Donald [t]Rump

You remember when the Dixie Chicks, at the height of their Country Songbird Sweetheart reign, by way of lead singer Natalie Maines, took on President W for the war and said they were ashamed he was from Texas? And remember how their careers suddenly tanked because everyone from Toby Keith to Reba McEntire to country radio came down on them for speaking their own opinions? Their music was pulled from the airwaves and the Chicks were shunned by the music industry for having the courage to speak their mind about a man who is an American war criminal.

I fell in love with the Chicks right about that time, and now I love ‘em even more.

I first read of this over at Blobby’s but thought I’d share it here myself:

The Dixie Chicks are back, and as one of my favorite Chicks songs says, they are not ready to make nice. On their DCX MMXVI World Tour they have taken on a new political foe: Donald [t]Rump.

While singing the song Goodbye Earl, they show this photo of the ultimate bully as a back drop:

See, the song tells the story of two best friends from high school; Mary Ann leaves the town after graduation, while Wanda stays and married Earl, who physically abuses her repeatedly. Wanda files for divorce but "Earl walked right through that restraining order and put her in intensive care." When Mary Ann flies in for a visit the women decide "that Earl had to die," and they kill him, by poisoning his black-eyed peas.

Now, the Chicks aren’t saying [t]Rump has abused his wives — though perhaps being a serial adulterer is a form of abuse — but they are suggesting that [t]Rump is to America what Earl was to his wife in the song.

And I don’t believe the Chicks will face any backlash for this dig at a GOP candidate because even though [t]Rump has done everything wrong, offended just about any group he chooses, lied and name-called and foot-stomped about how mean people are to him, he won the nomination anyway.  But, the more people that come out against [t]Rump, and show him in his true colors, the more hurt he is going to feel. And come election day, when he loses, and tries to tell us all that he never wanted to be president anyway because being president is a loser job and he’s just oh so rich, the better we are all going to feel.

And so for that, “Thanks Chicks.”

PS: here's the Chicks song about not feeling bad for speaking their minds:

Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines Recycles Her Most Infamous Quote

I remember, thirteen years ago, the kerfuffle that started when the Dixie Chicks, well, at least lead Chicks singer, Natalie Maines, while performing in England, said this onstage about the impending Iraq war:

“Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”

And a great deal of America, conservative, backwoods, redneck, Republican America, went apesh*t. How dare she say a derogatory thing about the President, especially President W who was sent from Heaven to save us from the infidels in Iraq or Iran or Afghanistan or Pakistan, or wherever there was oil terrorists out to harm us?

People couldn’t believe that Natalie Maines had exercised her right to Free Speech; to speak out against a war she thought was all kinds of wrong; people couldn’t believe she had an opinion!

And the Dixie Chicks suffered for what Natalie Maines said; country radio stopped playing their songs; fellow country artists spoke out publicly against the group; deals were lost, concerts were cancelled; parents told their children to say nasty things about the girls.

Don’t believe that last part? Take a moment and watch the documentary, “Shut Up and Sing.” See the hate spewed from the mouths of children, who are just repeating what their illiterate parents told them.

But this isn’t really about that … it’s about Natalie Maines being at it again, and dusting off that old quote for a new target, Ted Cruz:

And she chose the perfect quotes, the first being from General,  and former President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who knew the dangers of war, because he lived through them; the second was from Ted Cruz, a Canadian born warmonger who never served in battle anywhere, and cannot wait to murder the enemy. But then she thought better of her original Tweet, and did a quick edit job on it, to mock Ted Cruz of Canada:

Good for Natalie; thanks for speaking up. We need more of that around here.

Oh, and if you still think she deserved what she got for simply saying she was ashamed to be from the same state as George W. Bush, how did you feel when Ted Nugent said Obama should be hanged? Was that okay?

Feeling shame over being from the same state as a liar and war monger is quite different from suggesting the President be murdered. But Ted Nugent wasn’t ridiculed and didn’t have his life threatened; he was invited to attend the President’s State of the Union speech.

I guess Free Speech is only good when the Republicans like what you’re saying.

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