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Author: Jim Parmenter

  • Mo & Mo en Route – Broke

    Broke-Fix

    If it’s not broke, don’t fix it… Well, it’s broke.

    Whatcha doing? Pitching pennies at Free-Market Capitalism plink-plink-clink! > plink-crack… Oh crap, I broke Capitalism. Was already broke, and it’s not really Capitalism. > Come on help me fix it! First you can’t cheat. Risk and reward work. I didn’t cheat! > Take risk, you fail, you pay. Not someone else, no bail-out, own it. Otherwise it won’t work. You just keep making the same damned mistake. We talking about me or Capitalism?

  • Mo & Mo en Route – Help-It

    Can’t Help It

    The Press with Trump, they just can’t help it. So much for the rest of the conversation.

    Good to know there’s nothing else going on in the world. > If a Trump-et blows-hard alone in a room… > with no media to hear, does it make a sound? > Like that will ever happen. Be caustic! Be bombastic! Dis an ethnic group! Rant about your critics! Lambast your opponents! Feed us Donald feed us!

  • Mo & Mo en Route -Circus

    Election Circus

    The Presidential Election Circus is in full swing. Will there be substance?  Will we hear about it?

    The 2016 presidential election media circus is in town! This is going to be a really long show. > it’s just about the noise, the thrills the spills. > yah, they have juggling, knife throwing, fire spitting and flip flopping. You mean acrobatics? And look, more than 20 clowns trying to cram into that tiny two seat car. Hey, everyone loves clowns! Don't you mean candidates? Tomāto / tomätoa (tuh-mey-toh, tuh-mah-toh)

  • Mo & Mo en Route – Fix

    The Big Fix

    There’s a long history of messing with Congressional District boundaries for political gain. It’s messy, I guess it’s an art, but it isn’t pretty.

    You know what this looks like? It’s Abstract Expressionism, it is not supposed to look “like” anything. > No, but really look… It conveys action, movement, freedom, it pulls you in, making you feel a part of the work. > It reminds me of a gerrymandered congressional district map… except the result is a polarized Congress without the whole action, movement, freedom, and be a part of it thing. > Ok, I guess I see it. But the painting I like. There is a beauty to it. And with Congress… it just gets ugly.



  • Mo & Mo en Route – FWWC

    FWWC was amazing!

    Women’s World Cup said it all. Nothing lesser here, and so much more!

    Shall we now, once and for all, put an end to this absurdity that Women’s sports are in any way less? Come on! Did you see the Women’s World Cup? It was freakin' amazing!



  • Mo & Mo en Route – Gun

    Gun v. Safe

    Why can’t common sense be a part of the conversation about guns and safety?

    I’m a gun guy. I looove guns. I think we got that. > Guns are great! Make you feel powerful, in control, safe … Over 30,000 gun deaths a year in the U.S. Not feeling safe. > That’s why we need more guns! We should arm everyone! 9 out of 10 shootings are not defensive or about property protection. Still not feeling safe. > You do get, if everyone has a gun… There’ll be more shooting? Exactly! You know that expression, “Cut off your nose to spite your face”? Might help here.



  • Mo & Mo en Route – Naming

    Why do companies and people pay big money for naming rights in the marketplace, but pay big money and hide their names in politics?

    Clog-15-21a



  • Mo & Mo en Route – Click

    Just don’t click…

    Why do legit news stories have all these bizarre “ad” or “paid” news stories at the end or mixed in with them?Clog-15-20b



  • Mo & Mo en Route – Margin

    Marginalize

    When everything becomes marginalized, what’s left?

    MG - Marginalizing, sure a lot of it. ML - Be it by races, by sex, by age, by class… ML - Workers, farmers, this biz, that biz, heck whole countries. MG - Marginalizing so many, there are no margins anymore. ML - All that’s left is that dot. MG - Looks like a zit.> ML - If we scrub real hard maybe it’ll go away? MG - We could try that.



  • Mo & Mo en Route – Ballast

    Ballast

    One of the meanings for ballast is, “anything that gives mental or moral stability”. This is hard to measure, but when lost the cost is immeasurable.

    What’s that? The corporate balloon… they’re dropping ballast. Ballast with parachutes? I mean employees… > The company is trying to stay aloft. Those are skimpy parachutes. Well, there might be some rough landings… But fear not, the company gives the biggest parachutes to those with the biggest salaries. Seems counterintuitive? Yeah. - Ouch!-OOO!-Ugh!-Thud! How do they keep from going down? Well, we do know the problem isn’t a lack of hot air. No, no, not the problem. - Go-team-go! Cut! Cut-back, Buy back, Re-org, Spin-off… Still sinking! What now? Flap, flap your arms! Need more resources! Too late.