Psychotropic Ink

"I see Condoleezza Rice - she goes on a plane, she gets off a plane, she waves, she goes there to meet some dictator. They talk, she leaves, she waves, the plane takes off. Nothing happens..." -- Donald Trump

Those damn Republicans are political geniuses!  Many years ago, while Richard Nixon was running for some office or other out in California, he sent scary-looking men with Russian accents around door-to-door to encourage people to vote for his opponent.  The idea being that... well, you can figure out the idea.  If you can't, then I would encourage you to discontinue reading this page and go watch "American Idol" or something.

Anyway, fast forward to 2007, and Donald Trump makes the comment I've posted above regarding the current Secretary of State.  

And I have to think, wow, these Republicans are really, really smart.  Because I've never felt like defending Secretary Rice before now.  The GOP should trot him out to attack Cheney, Bush, Rove.  The ire of Trump could well be the best weapon the GOP has in its arsenal.

I mean, how odious does a guy need to be in order for me to reconsider any target of his verbal attacks?

Genius. Pure genius.

Karl, did you do this?

I’m pretty damn hardcore in everything I do in life. I stare death in the face every day and laugh. I eat danger for breakfast. People see me walking down the street, they think, “Damn, that Jerry is Xtreme!”

It’s just everything about me. A couple months back, I jumped from my bed springs onto a mattress that was lying on the floor, severely spraining/breaking/damaging my right ankle. It still smarts a bit, even now. I didn’t care – I’m hardcore.

I’ll listen to two or three Nurse with Wound CDs in a row.  What are you going to do about it? I’m living in Texas, and yet I still occasionally vote Democrat. That’s right, I did it – what else ya got?

But even though it’s obvious even to you by now that I’m hardcore to the bone in everything I do, I still fall a little short of 54-year old Chicago avant garde musician / documentarian / activist Malachi Ritscher.

It seems that last Friday, Ritscher committed suicide by setting himself on fire in protest of the war in Iraq.

That, my friends, is hardcore.