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Jim Flanigan Looks at the World
Turning the Mundane into Fundane Since 2015

Yesterday, we all decided that I was well-suited to forge a new career as a spy. But for what country or group? ISIS would be easy. They’ll recruit any nutjob like me. Well, I certainly am NOT going to be doing any spying for ISIS for one very important reason.
Donald Trump’s meeting with the President of Kenya caught my eye today.

What caught my eye is that the President of Kenya has the last name of Kenyatta. That almost sounds like one of the dopes in the Trump administration set up a phony meeting with a phony foreign world leader to make it look like Trump is actually doing work. They couldn’t think to research the actual Kenyan president’s name, so they just used a derivative of the word Kenya. Kind of like President Usanski of the USA. But I did some exhaustive research (10 seconds of Googling), and sure enough, the President of Kenya is named Uhuru Kenyatta. Uhuru is a Swahili word meaning freedom, so it is actually kind of a cool name. The only way it would be a better first name if it was Swahili for “I don’t know what nonsense that idiot Trump is trying to sell me, but I’m not buying it.”
I received this pen as a gift last summer.

Maybe I should clarify. This pen was given to me at a summer party last year because the owner threw up in his mouth every time he looked at it. I gladly grabbed it. The 8 sayings are listed on the back …
I knew it was going to be a rough business trip this week when I awoke on Tuesday morning, threw back the drapes on my hotel room window, and saw this …
As I hit the road tonight for a business trip, the important question on my mind was how to amuse myself for almost 4 hours in a car by myself. Crocheting was not an option as I was out of yarn. I also don’t know how to crochet. I decided to pay attention to rush hour traffic and listen to local radio for a while until I was out of the range of Chicago stations. That got to me almost to The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC which I am able to listen to thanks to Sirius XM satellite radio. Listening is as good as watching since she wears the same damn black blazer every night. As always, she was a good listen/watch.
Rachel’s show eventually disappeared into the ether. Day had become night and as my car hurtled through the darkness, I needed to keep occupied for the next 90 minutes or so. I cast my lot with music and began searching for a song to transition my drive from yak about votes to songs with notes. I stumbled upon this inconsequential, yet catchy number …
That immediately got me thinking of the Top 10 reasons NOT to meet me in The Middle. And here they are …
This news blurb caught my eye as I glanced at the Internetsphere …

Problem?
I was planning on a contemplative gem of a blog post today about the meaning of life and the essence of our very existence, but Trump did it to me once again, dangling a shiny object in front of me as a distraction. The shiny object this time …

Yep, for just 9 billion dollars, you too can have a Space Force. If you don’t have that much, at least you can vote for Trump’s Space Force logo. Take a look at the candidates …
This whole democracy thing is really getting me healthy. The precinct I serve as Democratic Precinct Committee Person is large geographically. There are some large homes on large lots. I already blogged that some of the driveways of the larger homes are longer than the street I live on. I can’t efficiently walk from home to home, even if I drive into the neighborhood. My trusty old bike is the best way to quickly travel from door to door in some neighborhoods in my precinct.

As I traveled to the far reaches of my precinct on my bike shortly after dawn one day, I encountered this …
The Proud Boys, a white supremacist group, descended upon Portland, Oregon for a rally last week. Can someone please tell me what the deal is with this guy spotted at the rally?
Last weekend, I was an active participant in democracy, and now my Facebook is all askew. I blame a billionaire who I embraced on Sunday. I never thought I would type those words, or that my Facebook would be turned topsy-turvy. I will explain …
When a star explodes, it is called a supernova and it is magnificent.

Editor’s Note: This is a conceptualization only. No actual stars were destroyed in the making of this blog post.
However, Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was recently destroyed. Take a look …
Not much good has come of Donald Trump being in the White House. One of the few benefits has been the highlighting of some heretofore overlooked words in our vernacular. In this blog post, I will reveal the Top 5 Trumpcabulary Words and their meanings.
None of these words has come from Trump himself. His vocabulary is as limited as “likes” for my blog posts. One of Trump’s favorite “big boy” words he uses frequently is reciprocal, which of course refers to the number of calories in a specific recipe.
But the more interesting words that have wormed their way into common parlance have not come from Trump, but from others. So without further ado, here are the Top 5 Trumpcabulary Words and their definitions so that you can impress your friends with your grasp of today’s hot Trumpish jargon.

We are appreciative of our intrepid Flies On Washington Walls who stowed away on Air Force One so they could sit in on the Trump-Putin Summit.
