The Powdered Wig Could Make a Come Back

Posted on November 2, 2023 by portfoliolongo.com

The same folks who want to go back to the days when Jesus was speaking Latin with his disciples also want to go back to the early days of this Holy Republic, when the Founding Fathers ran a tight ship in His Name and laid down the damned law, if necessary, right upside the heads of anybody who stepped out of line. America, they say, will be great again when MAGA lawyers will be anointed and appointed to kick some ass. Maybe they’ll wear powdered wigs again.

Click on image to order your own powdered MAGA wig from Amazon.

Have Pronouns Will Travel

Posted on October 31, 2023 by portfoliolongo.com

Indefinite pronouns included.

Update: Each time I hear the song, “Him” by Rupert Holmes (1979) on Yacht Rock Radio played over and over again I’m struck by two things both related to pronouns.

There are several, repeated and annoying errors because of the failure to distinguish between and make proper use of subjective and objective pronouns, one example, “It’s me or it’s him.” I’ve indicated on the revised lyrics where these errors occur.
I know “Him” was written before the advent of nonbinary pronouns – along with countless other songs that might also merit updating, but it’s that huge emphasis on “HIM, HIM, HIM!” that makes it impossible to ignore these lyrics in our new pronoun landscape. (Cf. The annual International Pronouns Day.)

Check out my attempt to adjust the pronouns:

“Him” or “Them?”

War and Peace

Posted on October 29, 2023 by portfoliolongo.com

of two minds

No you really don’t.

Doorknob

Posted on October 24, 2023 by portfoliolongo.com

Yep. A doorknob. A doorknob drawn freehand on an iPad with an Apple Pencil using the Sketch Club app.

Knob (Click on image to enlarge.)

GOP Intramural Fratricide

Posted on October 23, 2023 by portfoliolongo.com

…if you had asked for two words: nonchalantly fratricidal.

canis canem edit (Dog eat dog)

AOC

Posted on October 22, 2023 by portfoliolongo.com

More like her, please.

AOC (click on image to enlarge)

How isn’t he floating down the Potomac?

Posted on October 11, 2023 by portfoliolongo.com

I have mixed feelings about spending time on my iPad on crap like this, scoundrels not only impersonating public servants, but bilking them. They capitalize on the ignorance of their constituents. They cut funding for public education, humiliate teachers, ban books, whitewash curricula, and so on… all for the conservation of their most precious resource: ignorance.