Is see where some of Jabba the Trump’s lapdogs have taken to wearing lapel pins with his likeness.
The last time we saw anything like that was when Chairman Mao eradicated tens of millions of his Chinese countrymen during the famines and the Cultural Revolution.
And you say MAGA isn’t a cult – ha!
The only thing I’d use with a Trump likeness is a roll of toilet paper.
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn't look a day over 94.
Is see where some of Jabba the Trump’s lapdogs have taken to wearing lapel pins with his likeness. The last time we saw anything like that was when Chairman Mao eradicated tens of millions of his Chinese countrymen during the… READ MORE
Save us from the SAVE act!
Image by Jessica Rodriguez Rivas. CC license.
Those morons in Congress went ahead and passed the SAVE Act. I’ve told you about that stupid law in the past. It makes it damn near impossible for certain groups of people to vote because it requires you to have… READ MORE
Let’s hope the Giant Orange Space Turd goes where nobody has gone before – and stays there!
Well, the Giant Orange Space Turd shut down his tariffs, at least temporarily, and as a result the stock market went into orbit and MAGAts flooded the zone with really awful Star Trek analogies.
“Uh, yeah, man, it’s 5-D chess. The president is playing 5-D chess. It’s all part of the plan.”
Ah, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Listening to MAGAts talk about 5-D chess is like placing a keyboard in front of a lap poodle and expecting it to type Shakespeare.
The ONLY reason the Giant Orange Space Turd delayed his tariffs is because the lobotomites and mouth-breathers who work for him, dumb as they are, recognized this starship was headed toward a black hole.
Sorry to burst your bubble, MAGAts, but the Giant Orange Space Turd is not a Mister Spock-style savant playing the long game with the economy. No no, MAGAts, this cancellation of tariffs is a colossal admission of failure of both policy and mind. It’s as if the Giant Orange Space Turd beamed down to Planet of the Idiots and they forgot to transport his brain.
You want another Star Trek analogy? Here’s one: Let’s hope the Giant Orange Space Turd goes where no one has gone before.
And stays there.
Live long and prosper!
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn't look a day over 94.
Well, the Giant Orange Space Turd shut down his tariffs, at least temporarily, and as a result the stock market went into orbit and MAGAts flooded the zone with really awful Star Trek analogies. “Uh, yeah, man, it’s 5-D chess…. READ MORE
While the rest of us are suffering, President Sex Offender is having fun
I suppose you’ve heard about the four American soldiers who were unalived during a training exercise in Lithuania.
I don’t know if you are aware of the fact that the Lithuanians gave those soldiers a beautiful send-off. Thousands of Lithuanian citizens lined the streets to pay their respects as the soldiers were transported to the airport. The Lithuanian president said that military service in their country is not just a duty but an emotion.
Contrast that with the reception they received at Dover Air Force Base in the United States. Our president was too busy playing golf down in South Florida to attend the dignified transfer. He sent that drunk, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth – gosh, I hope he was sober.
And speaking of golf, I don’t if you knew this but every time the president travels to Florida to play golf it costs the American taxpayers between $3.5 million and $5 million.
Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025. Since that date he has come to Florida to play golf seven times. He also took a trip to the Super Bowl and he visited the Daytona 500, so that’s nine of these jaunts at a cost of $3.5 million to $5 million apiece. By my reckoning, using the $5 million figure because the math is easier, that’s $45 million the American taxpayer has shelled out to haul his fat ass around so he could have some fun.
I understand presidents need to occasionally get out, enjoy life and do some things. However, we’ve been told that times are dire – so dire that Trump had to hire a foreign national, Elon Musk, to come in like the Grim Reaper and slash hundreds of thousands of jobs, lay waste to government services and eviscerate federal agencies, all in the name of saving money. If times are so dire, why are we having to pay $45 million in three months for the president’s fun?
And when you put the numbers together they come out something like this: If he’s averaging two of these trips per month then that’s $10 million, or $120 million per year. If he actually makes it through all four years of his term the taxpayers will have spent almost half a billion dollars on this guy to cheat at golf. People are losing their jobs, federal services are being cut – hell, they don’t even have rangers at the national parks – but the president gets to play golf.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
By the way, there were members of Congress at the dignified transfer at Dover. They were all Democrats. I guess the Republicans were too busy committing sex offenses and stealing our money to pay their respects.
Oh, and I may be wrong about this, but looking at the names of the fallen soldiers, and seeing their photos, I believe three of the four were people of color, exactly the kind of people President Sex Offender is trying to deport.
Maybe he just didn’t have time for more “suckers and losers” as he once put it.
The man is a sorry excuse for a human being. The people who defend him are almost as bad.
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn't look a day over 94.
I suppose you’ve heard about the four American soldiers who were unalived during a training exercise in Lithuania. I don’t know if you are aware of the fact that the Lithuanians gave those soldiers a beautiful send-off. Thousands of Lithuanian… READ MORE
Plan? There is no plan. It’s a simple smash and grab
Stock markets around the world are crashing. As east Asian markets came online late last night trading on the Taiwan and China markets had to be temporarily halted as investors scrambled to protect their assets from the insanity of Donald J. Trump.
Over the weekend, all the social media experts, with their PhDs and Nobel Prizes in economics, finance and business, were saying, “Don’t worry. This is all part of a plan. This is the temporary pain we must go through until we come out on the other side.”
What a load of horseshit. There is NO plan that requires the destruction of an asset in order to protect it. That would be like unaliving a cancer patient and then saying, “See there? Problem solved!”
Meanwhile the real economists, the folks with the PhDs and Nobel Prizes in economics, finance and business, the people who went to real colleges for decades to earn their degrees, have to a man and woman said that Trump’s economic “plan” is nothing more than voodoo economics and will end in disaster. They’re all bailing for the bomb shelters.
I don’t know what Trump’s intentions are and thank God I don’t. My brain doesn’t work that way and I’m not evil. But I do know this: He’s either out of his mind or he’s evil, take your pick. He should be in prison – or a mental institution.
He’s destroying people’s lives, and destroying lives is wrong.
He needs to be stopped.
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn't look a day over 94.
Stock markets around the world are crashing. As east Asian markets came online late last night trading on the Taiwan and China markets had to be temporarily halted as investors scrambled to protect their assets from the insanity of Donald… READ MORE
I want my cookie for losing weight!
This is me in 1985, standing at the door of my '84 Firebird. Wasn't I a sleek, svelte little punk? Image by Joyce Stone
Di you enjoy Thanksgiving? I didn’t. I had a plate brimming with guilt, an extra helping of disgust, and I topped it off with a bowl of frosty self-loathing. See, it’s the weight thing. As in, I’m gaining weight. After… READ MORE
Mladen and Del review ‘A Minecraft Movie’
Image courtesy of Warner Bros. and Legendary.
“A Minecraft Movie” Starring Jack Black as Steve, Jason Momoa as Garrett, Emma Myers as Natalie, Sebastian Hansen as Henry, Danielle Brooks as Dawn, Jennifer Coolidge as Vice Principal Marlene, and others. Directed by Jared Hess. 1 hour, 41 minutes…. READ MORE
On April 1, 2025, strike a blow for freedom and democracy
In November 2000 Florida played a pivotal role in the election of George W. Bush as president of the United States. On April 1, 2025, Florida can atone for that sin in a special election to fill two U.S. House… READ MORE
It’s time to pull the plug on Musk
Elon Musk. Image by Gage Skidmore. CC license
I think the honeymoon between Diaper Donnie and his master, Elon Musk, will come to an end sometime this year. Musk is sinking in the polls faster than a Model 3 driven off a short pier. His approval rating is… READ MORE
Hey MAGAts? I thought your boy, Diaper Donnie, was supposed lower the price of eggs
I’ve got a question for the MAGAts:
The other day I filled up the gas tank on my car. The price seemed kind of high so I checked – gas was 23 cents a gallon higher on Wednesday than it was on Jan. 20, 2025, when Joe Biden left office.
Why is that?
I thought your boy, Diaper Donnie, was going to fix all that! Isn’t that what he said? Prices will come down? On day one?
He can’t use the pandemic as an excuse. The United States is the world’s number one producer of oil, so he can’t use that as an excuse. America leads the world in exploring for new oil resources, so he can’t even use that for an excuse.
It’s like the price of eggs. Didn’t he say he was going to lower to the price of eggs? Because I checked this week – eggs are A DOLLAR higher now than they were when Sleepy Joe left office. A DOLLAR!
I don’t get it. Gas prices are higher. Egg prices are higher. Unemployment is higher. Inflation is higher. The only things lower are the stock market and consumer confidence.
Trump said he would lower the price of eggs. Then he said we might have to go through some temporary pain before prices come down. Now he’s saying he wishes people would stop bitching about the price of eggs.
Wow, what an accomplishment. I’m so glad you, ahem, “intellectually impaired individuals” elected Donald Trump president.
He really is making America “great” again.
Or is that “grate”?
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn't look a day over 94.
I’ve got a question for the MAGAts: The other day I filled up the gas tank on my car. The price seemed kind of high so I checked – gas was 23 cents a gallon higher on Wednesday than it… READ MORE
