Rants & Kisses

 

Rants & Kisses is an irregular column telling the tallest tales about the smallest things. It’s a vessel for my mind’s ire and heart’s desire, a soapbox for evanescent voices I cannot predict or control. I contain multitudes.

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Wearing a fashionable white dress with fur collar, Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Georgia) stands and cups her hands around her mouth like a megaphone as she jeers President Joe Biden at the 2023 State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol.

A Rant: Marjorie Taylor Green auditioned for R&K’s Authoritarian It Girl at the 2023 State of the Union address. She and her Republican colleagues yelled like Tarzan swinging through the trees as they jeered and booed the President’s speech. Earlier in the night, MTG modeled a new white dress with fur trim on the floor of the U.S. House chamber.  Read more.

Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson share a paparazzi moment at a Hollywood nightclub circa 1966, when they fell in love. Bacharach was the composer of 1960s pop hits like “Say A Little Prayer” and “The Look of Love.” Dickinson was a movie actress with legs famously insured for a million dollars. He wears a suit and tie and glances down in a chuckle. She wears a low-cut cocktail dress and turns to smile directly at the camera.

& A Kiss: It’s a time before Hate Talk Radio. WLW out of Cincinnati plays the latest pop songs, wedged grudgingly between ads and baseball scores. Songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Singers like Dione Warwick and Dusty Springfield. What Do You Get When You Fall in Love? The Look of Love. I Say a Little Prayer. I sit in the car’s back seat and listen. I’m glad it’s dark. I’d be embarrassed if anyone could see the dreamy look on my face. Read more.

The famous image of actress Raquel welch wearing a provocative fur bikini graced the poster for the 1967 film “One Million Years B.C.” The UK theatrical release poster was created by Tom Chantrell. [Source: Wikipedia]In One Million B.C., Raquel Welch invented civilization. Cave men discovered clubs that could help them steal thy neighbor’s mastodon. That was called Survival of the Fittest. In the 22nd century, capitalists who survive Climate Change will own all the shares in SpaceX and the biotech companies that invented human gills. Anyone else who tries to climb into the lifeboat will be clubbed like a baby seal. Read more.

Donald Trump sits at the defendant’s table at his criminal arraignment in Manhattan District Court on April 4, 2023. He wears a dark suit with red tie. Flanking him are several defense attorneys wearing lawyerly professional attire. Behind him stand two stalwart-looking New York Police officers in dark blue uniforms. One wears a COVID-19 face mask.All Together Now: “LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!”

If a man like Donald Trump isn’t allowed to have extramarital sex with a porn star, you won’t be allowed to have it, either. Next, the FBI will kick down the door of your luxury suite. What is America coming to? Honest, no pun intended. Read more.