The Gods Are Bored

  When this blog started, I  threw the shade of a sprawling oak over the lunatic fringe better known as the evangelical Christian right. Tha...

  Ah, beautiful! It's Friday afternoon after a long week, the temperature is a balmy 65, and the sun is beaming down. Bliss? Sorry, Bamp...

  It's President's Day weekend, and what does that mean? Everything's half off at the thrift store! And whoa, doggies. The place...

  Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," home of one proficient (not distinguished) teacher. If you're a teacher yourself, you proba...

  I know you've heard all about it. Texas has a new law that forbids abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Oh, shucks, let's dispen...

  Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," where we don't comfort the afflicted ... we afflict the comfortable. Today's comfortabl...

  Dear White Boomer Singers at the Haterfield Farmer's Market: What in the name of red-eyed fruit flies are you thinking, daring to cove...

  In end stage capitalism, the only lives that are important are the owners. The workers matter not. Someone keel over? Replace the slave an...

  January 7, 2021 The leaders of the Independent Republic of Johnsonia hereby express our dismay at the unsuccessful but nevertheless alarmi...