COVID, Atlantis And S&M...

 "The Fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad..." -- Phil Ochs

"Of course I've gone mad with power! Have you tried going mad without power? Its boring and no one listens to you..." -- The Simpsons

"In a world gone mad only a lunatic is truly insane..." -- Homer

Marxism, Eggs and Shoeshines...

 "There is a false modesty which is vanity; a false glory which is levity; a false grandeur which is meanness; a false virtue which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery..." --- Jean de la Bruyere

You All Suck (#55 -Technology Ruins Everything Edition)...

"If you'd like to experience just how badly computers have ruined modern life, try finding a job..." -- The Overlord

The Right To Steal...

 "The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three..." -- George Orwell, 'Down And Out in Paris and London'

Great Moments in Dumbfuck (Year End Edition)

 

"If you ever wanted to imagine just what your own asshole might look like after a marathon Mexican smorgasbord, followed by a 24-hour high-pressure enema, and a forced, un-lubed colonoscopy all happening at once, just think of Anthony Fauci on the witness stand..." -- The Overlord

You All Suck (#54b - Electile Dysfunction...)

 "One more such victory and we are undone..." -- Pyrrhus of Epirus

You All Suck (#54a - 2022 Midterm Edition Introduction)

 "It is hateful to me to retell a story over again when it has been well told..." -- Homer, "The Odyssey"

Galactic Housekeeping #19 (A New Chapter Begins?)

 "From the end springs new beginnings..." -- Pliny the Elder

The Idiot's Perspective...New Episodes!

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Of Woke and Nuts...

 "I think what the 'woke' culture needs is to be woke. But then, that could be a very rude awakening..." -- Craig D. Lounsbrough 

More Like "Fact-F*ckers"...

 "The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity..." -- Christopher Hitchens

Post-Mortem Frustration...

 "I measuring his affections by my own,
Which then most sought where most might not be found,
Being one too many by my weary self, 
Pursued my humor not pursuing his,
And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me..." -- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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Exodus From New Yorkistan...

 "They plunder, they steal and they slaughter; this they falsely name 'Empire' and where they make a wasteland, they call it 'Peace'..." -- Gaius Cornelius Tacitus

On Hiatus...

 The Overlord is about to take an unintended, but totally necessary, sabbatical.

Unfortunately, I am still feeling the effects of the loss of my beloved Mrs. Overlord, and writing the biting criticism and sparkling snark that you've come to expect from me doesn't have much to recommend it, these days.

My apologies.

In the meantime, my cohort and I are still pumping out unasked-for commentary in audio format.

Tune in to The Idiot's Perspective, available wherever you get your podcasts. I ask you to do this humbly and with all the sniveling obsequience I can muster. Please follow, like, subscribe or share, as your platform allows, and make sure that Joe doesn't have to scrounge dumpsters and fight the pigeons for bread crusts for sustenance, anymore.

And if you like what you hear, then please tell everyone you know. The audience is growing and we're grateful for all the regulars who stop by to give us a listen.

I'm not sure when I will be back in written form, but I hope it will not be too long a wait.

Thank you all for your kindness, consideration and words of comfort. I truly do appreciate you all.

Notes on Grief...

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break..." -- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Douchebag of the Week (Week Ending 9/3/2022 - "Governor" Kathy Hochul)

"If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it -- too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul -- the result is bound to be complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds..." -- Plato

You All Suck (#53 -- Unforgiveable)

"Note to all recent college grads who may be seeking employment with me in the near future:

If or when you no longer have as heavy a debt load because Joe Biden is attempting to buy votes by eliminating some of your fiscal responsibility, then I just might decide to lower your starting salary in commensurate fashion. Only fair since I will be getting stuck with your unpaid tab..." -- The Overlord

Galactic Housekeeping #18 (An Empty Death Star, Podcasting, and Assorted Crap Edition)

 No quote today.

"For Better or For Worse..."

 "Where you used to be, there's a hole in the world, where I constantly find myself walking around it in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell..." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Requiesat in Pacem, Mrs. Overlord...

 My beloved Rosemarie Therese Pannell (nee Santos) passed away quietly this afternoon due to heart failure and complications brought on by COVID. She was 55.

Mrs. Overlord has returned to The Force.

I have never met a kinder, gentler, more-decent soul in all of my life. For the last 10 years or so, we have fought the good fight -- knowing all the time that we would not win -- against Muscular Dystrophy. It is asked that if you can find it in your hearts to do so, that you make a donation in her memory to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Every little bit helps and they are making enormous progress with each passing day to help improve and to save the lives of people stricken with these terrible diseases.

I may be signing off for a while, but I will be back. Thank you all for your support and readership.

We Nuked The Wrong Asians...

 A message, if I may, to President Xi: for decades China has played the role of victim of Western Imperialism. Even a very shallow perusal of history shows this is certainly not the case. The Chinese have always seen themselves as a "Divine Race", superior in all ways to all others; they believe that China -- and only China -- has ever been "civilized"; that China is the axis upon which the world spins. In fact, it was not only "Western Imperialism" that sentenced China to 200 years of partition and economic exploitation at the hands of foreign powers, but rather Chinese arrogance in believing the foreigner had nothing to teach the superior Chinese, had nothing to give the brilliant Chinese, and ultimately could never overcome the strength and allure of "divine" Chinese culture, and so it was safe (as well as sometimes funny) to let the Westerner have his way....

Trans-action...

 

No quote today because I can't think of one that fits this particularly strange (I think) human interaction...

The Idiot's Perspective (Vabbing for World Hunger!)

Today on The Idiot's Perspective we tackle the latest internet Vaginal Obsession and the stupidity that is a Green Agenda which more-and-more appears to have the deliberate destruction of societies and economies, rather than "saving the planet" as it's true goal.

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Douchebag of the Week (Week Ending 7/9/2022 -- Mitt Romney)

 "The worse a person is the less he feels it..." -- Seneca The Younger

The Idiot's Perspective (Murder, Mayhem and Morons)

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Another Shooting, More Hot Air...

 "In the wake of any tragedy, three things are certain: first, we will discover that the tragedy was largely avoidable; second, that the tragedy will have involved at least one act of or mistake by government, and lastly, that the politicians will use it as a means of both demanding more control and making you forget that the more control they're given the worse the follow-on tragedies become..." -- The Overlord

The Idiot's Perspective (The July 4th Shit-stravaganza!)

Just in time for the July 4th holiday, The Idiot's Perspective investigates just what the word "independence" means in modern America.

Join the Overlord and his minion, Joe Rice, on this fascinating journey to discover just what the fuck is wrong with literally everything.

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Happy "Independence" Day, Retards...

"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest..." -- Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"

Why The Left Needs to Kill Children...

 

"There is a tendency on the left, to think that if someone in any way disagrees with the left it must be for the lowest possible reason and if you found the lowest possible reason and if you found the lowest possible motive you have found the right one. There's this whole culture of no one would leave us or no one would quarrel with us if they weren't a sellout. Its actually a very sick mentality and very widespread..." -- Christopher Hitchens

Douchebag of the Week (Week Ending 7/2/22 -- Hillary Clinton)

 "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue, street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which The Party is always right..." -- George Orwell, "1984"

The Rogues Gallery of Leftard...

 "We all watched. The television coverage just yesterday. That's on top of everything else we know and don't know yet based on just what we've been able to see and because we've seen it or not doesn't mean it didn't happen..." -- Kamala Harris, expounding upon the January 6th Hearings.

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An Enforced Absence...

Things can get a bit hectic around the Death Star... 

But We're Not Grooming Your Kids...Really...

 No quote today because there isn't one that comes to mind that is appropriate for such a disturbing topic.

The Idiot's Perspective (#2 - The Insurrection Erection)

 

A new episode of The Idiot's Perspective is now available for your listening pleasure.

This week, Joe and I discuss the Bread and Circuses nature of the "January 6th Hearings".

We are now available on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Anchor, and coming to an internet podcast platform near you soon!

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More Signs and Some Questions...

 Another review of the New Signs of Our Times going up all over the Overlord's patch of the galaxy...

When the Criminal Won't Co-operate With The Narrative...

 

"Which, to an American Journalist, is the greater tragedy: that a room full of schoolchildren should be murdered by a madman, or that the madman turns out to be a non-Caucasian?" -- The Overlord

Shameless Promotions and Thank Yous....

 

The latest fare from my new podcast, "The Idiot's Perspective" is now available -- for FREE!, dammit -- on Spotify and Anchor.

Soon to be appearing on fine streaming and podcasting sites everywhere.

Take the journey into dumbfuck as my co-host Joe Rice and I delve into the burning questions of dramatic import to the American public.

A great way to kill 40 or so minutes, and a wonderful sleep aid for the insomniac in your life!

The Mental Illnesses of the Left...

 A second post today, because there's too much fucktard floating around out there and someone needs to jump up and down pointing at it...

The Public School Versus Technology...

 "Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys looking inept?" -- Frank Herbert, "Heretics of Dune"

Idiot Control...

  "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men..." -- George Orwell

Now Available in Moron!

 The Overlord and his trusty sidekick are now available on a podcast!

The Idiot's Perspective (the episode is entitled "Just Foolin') is now available, for free, on Anchor and Spotify. At present, we have but a single test episode available, but would appreciate reviews, criticism, complaints, suggestions, kvetches, bitching, analysis, and comments.

Tell us what works, what sucks, what you would like to hear us talk about, how sexy my New York accent is, it's all good. Be brutal and send responses to excelsior502@gmail.com, please.

There's two more episodes planned for next week.

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Douchebag of the Week (Week Ending 5/21/22 - Nina Jankowicz)

 "Progressives just don't redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too..." -- Kathy Shaidle, "Confessions of a failed Slut"

At Least Cruelty Sometimes Sleeps...

 "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likely to make a Hell of Earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's own will and to be cured of states we do not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles and domestic animals..." -- C.S. Lewis, "God in the Dock; Essays on Theology"

The Overlord's Interview Tips For The Recent Grad...

 A "graduate" is merely someone who spent an enormous amount of money to faithfully regurgitate whatever a professor -- who has probably never done whatever it is they teach for real or profit -- has been serving for the last 20 years.

Here's how stupid "a graduate" is:

You went to an institution that is a by-product of capitalism, on borrowed funds that are also the by-product of capitalism, to be indoctrinated by socialists who are paid with the by-products of capitalism, so that you could emerge uniquely  unqualified for anything that capitalism finds useful and buried under a mountain of debt.

But nice piece of paper ya got there, Sonny. -- The Overlord

"2000 Mules", Logic, and Podcasts...

 No quote today.

Happy Mother's Day, Bitch...

 "Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions -- like fear, honor and perceived self-interest..." -- Victor Davis Hanson

You All Suck (#52 - Arguing With Idiots Edition)

 

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something..." -- Plato

Really Quick Thoughts...

 No quote today. Sorry!

James Burnham Warned You...

 "Where there is no alternative, there is no problem..." -- James Burnham

"There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters..." -- James Burnham, "The Machiavellians"

Gotham City For Reals...

 

"It's obvious. Only a criminal would disguise himself as a licensed, bonded guard yet callously park in front of a fire hydrant..." -- Batman

Quick Hits...

 Been extremely busy this past week, so no time to write. However, here's a few tidbits to tide you over, Minions.

Perspective, Son...

 "Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them through the eyes of others..." - Alexandre Dumas, "The Count of Monte Cristo"

"Electricity is really just organized lightning..." -- George Carlin

Mindrape, Subway Shooters, and Mo' Conservatives...

 "Remember: You can't spell 'therapist' without 'the rapist'"... -- The Overlord

Dear I.R.S. : YOU SUCK!

 "Congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the tax laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene..." -- Dave Barry

Semper Paratus!

Second post o' the day, dedicated to the wonderful Men and Women (although far be it from me to misgender anyone) of The United States Coast Guard.

The System Works; You Don't...

 

"The popular element feels but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows" but does not always understand and in particular does not always feel..." -- Antonio Gramsci

Galactic Housekeeping #17 (The IRS, Identity Theft, and Your Master's Voice Edition)

 Just a few tidbits that will keep you updated on this particular corner of the galaxy...

"Petromasculinity"? This May Be Why You're Lonely...

 "Online dating is like choosing a proctologist by picking random names out of a hat..." -- The Overlord

Signs o' The Times...

"If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half of the "fuck you" signs in the world. It is impossible." -- J.D. Salinger, "Catcher in the Rye"

"Science" Run Amok...

"1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction allow a human being to be harmed.

2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such an order would conflict with The First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws..." -- Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, "Runaround"

You All Suck (#51 -- Misanthropy for Dummies Edition...)

 "I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer..." - Florence King

No, I Don't Want To Cruise...

 "I live on a fucking island. Islands hold no fascination for me. I already have all the ocean I ever want to see outside my window. Stop calling me..." -- The Overlord

Great Moments in Dumbfuck -- Halftime Report...

 "Stupid people are asked for their opinions all the time, and quite frequently, their ideas are taken seriously. On a wide variety of topics, ranging from who should win American Idol, to who should run the country, to what we should do when confronted by a Chinese Superbug that has escaped and almost-exclusively started killing people who already had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. Take a good, objective look at the world you presently live in: Does it appear that asking stupid people what they think -- and then acting upon their opinions --  has worked out very well?" -- The Overlord

Nostalgia for "Big Iron"...

 "One is always at home in one's past..." - Vladimir Nabokov, "Speak, Memory"

Baseball Versus Jock Itch...

 "The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppance..." -- P.G. Wodehouse, "A Pelican at Blandings"

Machines DO NOT Think, You Idiot...

 "I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted..." -- Alan Turing. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

TDS Versus TBS...

 "The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy all human beings..." -- Dietrich Boehnhoffer, "Letters and Papers From Prison"

The Perils of Armchair Prognostication...

 "It's so easy to be wrong -- and to persist in being wrong -- when the costs of being wrong is paid by others..." -- Thomas Sowell

Stupid Passive Aggressive...

 "At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child -- miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of spoiled brats" -- P.J. O'Rourke, "Give War a Chance"

No One Will Accept My Money...Just Steal It...

 "While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery..." -- Groucho Marx

Obligatory Olympic Crapstorm and Memories...

 No Quote today. This doesn't really warrant any, as it is all just a rant and some reminiscences.

Canada, Ukraine and New Yorkistan...

 "This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half..." -- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Under The Weather

 The Overlord is a bit ill these days -- not COVID -- and needs some time to see a few doctors and find out what's what. 

I'll probably know more by the weekend.

I don't think it's all anything serious, but some strange stuff has been happening to my body as of late -- I've written about the cancer scare this past summer -- and I really need a thorough once-over.

Thanks for your patience.

Boost This...

"I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly, I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion..." -- The Hippocratic Oath

What Pandemic?

 "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election..." -- Otto von Bismark

Keep Calling Me Crazy...

 "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed..." -- William Butler Yeats

Of Rats And Sinking Ships...

 "One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Natural Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England. The Food Crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in hopes of adding five years to his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity ..." -- George Orwell, 'The Road to Wigan Pier"

The Left and Civil War...

 "I, for one, welcome this conflict the Left keeps insisting is coming. It will be over very quickly. The Straight White Males own the majority of the guns, money and means of production, while The Other Side is a collection of four thousand self-interested, mutually-exclusive, functionally-illiterate identity groups, that are often confused by their own genitals." -- The Overlord

COVID: The Gift That Keeps on Giving...

 I was going to post some important information for the middle-aged woman this past week, but Julie Burchill stole some of my thunder. I will save my dating tips for the middle-aged female for another time.