Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie

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Have I talked about this subject before?

I may have talked about this subject before and if I have, please forgive me. They say that as you grow older, your memory is the second thing to go. I don’t remember what the first is.

At any rate, I’ve noticed that the people who leave nasty comments on my posts all seem to have a number of similar characteristics. This would be among the small pool who actually post photos of themselves in their profiles, because in many cases their profile photo is simply an empty placeholder, or a photo of a pickup truck, a hound dog or a burning cross.

But among those who actually do post an image of themselves I’ve noticed something unusual.

They all look like me.

That’s a horrifying thought, isn’t it? But it’s true, they all look like me. They’re all the same race, gender, age (give or take 10 years), and they’ve all got that Q-Tip stuff growing on the top of their head.

There are some noticeable differences, however. Their faces are ruddy, like a steam pipe about to explode. The capillaries in their noses are herniated, probably from alcohol abuse or sniffing the pharmaceutical of their choice. Their political and sexual orientations are 180 degrees opposite of mine. I care about people. They care about money. I care about the future. They care about the past.

But probably the biggest difference between them and me is that they all seem angry. Honest to God, they look like the before photo in an ad for Dulcolax. And I can’t figure out what the hell they’re so mad about. They’ve had the best of everything – the best education, the best jobs, they make the most money, and they’ve had the most opportunities. What are they so pissed-off about?

I’ve decided it’s because they’ve been told people like me are trying to take away their rights. Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, and similar “news” sites have been busy making money by scaring them into thinking I’m coming for their rights.

I have one of those magnetic stickers on the back of my car that reads: Equal rights for others doesn’t mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie.

I would encourage my older, white, male antagonists to sit back, relax, and take a load off. Nobody’s coming for your rights. Allowing us to have the same rights as you doesn’t mean you lose anything.

As the sticker says: It’s not pie.

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.

Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .

I run into two kinds of gay people online who drive me BONKERS!

Grrr!

The first is the kind who say, “Ugh! Politics are icky! I don’t want to get involved.”

I hate to say it but their existence has already been politicized, whether they like it or not. If they don’t get involved, they’re not going to end up at the back of the bus. They’re going to end up UNDER the bus.

The second group are the ones who have decided to cozy up to their oppressors. They’ll say things like, “I’m just living my fat dumb happy gay life and nobody’s bothering me.”

That’s because they’re solipsists. They’re so utterly and irredeemably self-absorbed they can’t see anything happening around them. They seem to think if everything’s OK for them then it must be OK for everyone else, too. They got the “dumb” part right, anyway.

What a life.

Or they’ll say, “What rights have YOU lost?”

Honey, there ain’t a video long enough to list all the ways this regime threatens the LGBTQ community, but I’ll mention one thing because I think it’s the worst thing they’ve done.

They’ve Made America HATE Again.

You know I’m telling the truth. You’ve seen it yourself, and I’m not just talking about the LGBTQ community. I’m talking about ANYBODY who isn’t white, male, Republican and so-called Christian.

You’ve seen the racial attacks in videos online. You’ve seen the guys pouring out of rental trucks and marching down the street wearing their swastika armbands. You’ve seen the attacks on gay people, a fact supported by crime stats from the FBI and the Southern Christian Poverty Law Center.

But hey, don’t take my word for it. The groups themselves say they’ve been emboldened by the current regime to come out of their dark closets and parade their hate for all the world to see.

If you can’t see that, it’s because you don’t want to see it. You’re deliberately averting your gaze to preserve your reprehensible identity.

And you know what? I have no use for you.

You’re a traitor to your community, and you’re a traitor to your country.

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.

Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .

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I had a very unhappy MAGAt leave a comment on one of my videos that read:

“We will find you.”

I guess he thought he was Liam Neeson in “Taken.” I meant to ask if he had a particular set of skills, but I wasn’t thinking.

I don’t take these kinds of comments lightly, but at the same time I don’t lose a lot of sleep over them. I worked for a newspaper for decades. We got those kinds of threats from the public on a regular basis.

I had a woman tell me she was going to come down to the office with a pew-pew and unalive me. That earned her a visit from law enforcement.

I had a police officer say he was going to come down to the office and “beat my F-A-6-6-O-T ass” because he didn’t like a column I had written. He too received a visit from law enforcement.

I was out jogging one day when a man driving a van passed by, recognized me from the newspaper, pulled off the road ahead of me, blocking my path, and got out of his van and screamed and yelled at me about another column I’d written.

And one morning I found a note on my front door that had been made from letters cut from a magazine and glued to a piece of paper. The note said I would turn up missing.

I had my tires slashed at the office – twice. One time somebody smashed into the side of my car while I was inside the office working. Another time somebody crushed the front fender of my car while I was inside.

I have been called every slur, every epithet, every curse word you can image – but I’m still here!

Obviously I hope none of these bad things come to pass, because at age 70 my ability to defend myself isn’t what it used to be, and it was never that great to begin with. I’ll give it the old college try.

But I would remind these folks that assaulting a senior citizen is a felony, and if there’s a gay component to the assault then it becomes a hate crime, which is also a felony. Is it really worth spending the rest of your life in prison just to shut somebody up on social media?

It was only a few years ago that people were fond of saying, “I may not agree with your opinion but I will defend to the end your right to express it.” These days the saying seems to be, “Your opinion better agree with mine because if you don’t, I’m going to silence you.”

That may be the way they do things in Russia, China, Iran or North Korea, but that is mostly definitely NOT the American way.

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.

Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .

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I walk 3 miles every day.

I start at a local park, but then I branch off into the adjoining neighborhoods and end up at a local shopping center, where I stop to edit my videos.

Yesterday was a real scorcher. By the time I reached the shopping center I was dripping sweat.

As I sat down to work on my video, an elderly Chinese lady came out of the nail salon nearby and gave me a bottle of ice-cold water. I thought, “That was so nice of her!”

Then it occurred to me that by this time next week she could be handcuffed in the back of an ICE van awaiting deportation back to China. She’d be replaced by an American employee half her age, doing half the work for the twice the salary and not be half as nice.

No thanks. I think I’ll take the immigrants.

Immigrants bring much to this country and are one of the reasons it has been as successful as it is. If I asked you who invented the telephone you would probably tell me it was an American, Alexander Graham Bell. You’d be right. Except Bell was an immigrant.

The inventor of blue jeans was an immigrant.

Doughnuts were invented by an immigrant.

The hamburger was invented by an immigrant.

The AC power system was invented by an immigrant.

Hell, Google was co-invented by an immigrant.

The “president,” louse that he is, is married to an immigrant.

Immigrants bring a richness and diversity of culture, language, arts, sciences and engineering skills to this country. They are far more beneficial than the intellectual lummoxes currently in D.C. and their mouth-breathing MAGAt supporters.

I would much rather live next door to an immigrant family than a MAGAty xenophobe.

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.

Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .

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I said this once before but I’ll say it again because I keep seeing it happen.

Invariably some MAGAt type will see somebody online criticizing President Pedobear and say something to the effect: “If you don’t like this country, why don’t you leave? Get out.”

To which I would respond, “The president is not the country, and the country is not the president.”

It is perfectly possible to love this country but intensely dislike its leadership. In fact, it’s our duty as Americans to question our leadership, to hold it accountable. That’s our job, because if you’ll recall, the president was elected to serve us. We do not serve him.

Our loyalty is to the principle of democracy as it is embodied in the Constitution. The MAGAts are loyal to a kook.

Our flag features the stars and stripes. The MAGAt’s flag features some dude’s name and a rendering of a bloated, cantaloupe-colored criminal.

We are citizens of what used to be a great nation. MAGAts are members of a cult.

It is not our place to leave this country.

It is their place to check themselves in for deprogramming.

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.

Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .

As President Tapeworm and Elon Musk went at it hammer and tong on Thursday, sad little MAGAts were squirming and squealing in Truth Social and Twitter as they begged Mom and Dad to stop fighting.

“Can’t we just go back to the way things were?” they pleaded, posting photos of President Tapeworm and Musk gamboling across flower-flocked meadows, hand in hand, happy as can be.

It was like watching children anguish over the parents’ coming divorce. It was epic. I was laughing my ass off. What I want to know is: Which one is Mommy and which one is Daddy?

Then the little MAGAts turned mean, accusing people like me of suddenly falling in love again with Elon Musk, and wasn’t I just the biggest hypocrite? This, from so-called “Christians” and religious believers who supported a liar, criminal and sexual deviant for president. Isn’t that rich?

No, little MAGAts, we don’t like Musk any more now than we did before. We still recognize that both President Tapeworm and Musk are a couple of psychopaths, though they present their pathologies in different ways. President Tapeworm views people as assets to be exploited to further his own means. Musk is all about engineering solutions, and people are impediments to those solutions. Both see people as objects to be manipulated for their benefit.

Unfortunately for both, government cannot be run like a business because there are these trifling details called “people” who keep getting in the way. That’s why the best government solution is often not the most efficient solution. Government must operate with a degree of empathy and compassion, qualities both President Tapeworm and Elon Musk sadly lack.

So little MAGAts, you’re just going to have to wallow in your pathology and choose which parent you want to live with. This is your dysfunctional household, not ours.

Oh, and would somebody let the Vance out in the back yard so it can do its business? And don’t leave that shit on the ground; bag it up and throw it away.

And somebody please wash the slipcover on the couch. It’s getting sticky.

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.

Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .

The other day, somebody gave me a hard time for referring to Donald J. Trump as President Crotch Lice. They told me I would not be able to make my point as long as I was name-calling.

I wanted to ask them: Does the name “soy boy” mean anything to you?

What about “snowflake”?

“Demorat”? Have you heard that one?

“Libtard”?

“Horseface”?

“Crooked Hillary”?

“Sleepy Joe”?

“Kamala on her knees”?

Have you heard any of those names?

The truth is, you guys have done nothing but name-call for the past 10 years, and now you’re going to scold me for giving you a taste of your own medicine? Ha!

You guys clean up your act. Then you can talk to me about name-calling.

Until then, like another social media creator recently said:

Cry harder.

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.

Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .

I got a comment on one of my videos the other day, and the person said something to the effect, “If you hate this country so much, why don’t you just get out? Move to another country!”

To that person I would say, I don’t hate this country. I actually love this country. I just don’t like some of the assholes who live here.

This is my country. I was born here. I’m an American, and I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to stay here and fight to reclaim my country.

You people are the ones who want to junk the Constitution. You want to do away with law and order, and ignore the rulings of judges. And you people are the ones who tried to overthrow the government. You remember that?

You’re not Americans. You’re terrorists. You’re anarchists. You’re insurrectionists.

You want ME to leave my own country? Hell no! I’m not going anywhere! I’m staying right here.

If somebody needs to get out, it’s you. You’re not Americans.

You’re traitors.

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.

Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .

Pride Month is coming up, and every year the same thing happens: A bunch of allegedly straight men start complaining, “Gosh, the queers get a whole month to be appreciated, and for the military? Nothing.”

Let me just nip that in the bud before it even gets started.

May is National Military Appreciation Month. The fact that these complainers didn’t know that proves they don’t really give a shit about the military. They just want to bash some gay people. To them I say, “Fuck you.”

Also, there are at least three other days of the year when the military is honored – Veterans Day, Memorial Day, and Armed Forces Day – PLUS a number of other days to honor various aspects of military life, such as Military Spouse Appreciation Day, even Military Dogs Appreciation Day.

I would be remiss in not pointing out that some of these complainers, maybe even many of these complainers, are sneaking around behind their wives’ backs, and their children’s backs, hooking up with other men for purposes of, shall we say, “intimate connection.”

How do I know this? Because I’ve seen them. I actually know some of them. They go on gay hookup apps, like Grindr, and use code such as, “Discretion is a must,” or “Cannot host.” That almost always means they’re married with kids and they don’t want to be exposed as the cheaters, liars and hypocrites they are.

I had one of these guys trap me in his pickup truck and practically beg me to do the nasty with him. He even gave me a passphrase to use on Facebook, because his wife has access to his Facebook account. He said that if I ever messaged him on Facebook, and used that passphrase, he’d be at my place in 5 minutes to do all the things he said he wanted to do.

Invariably, these complainers are conservative MAGA Republicans. The Republican Party is infested with so many repressed homosexuals that last year, during their national convention in Wisconsin, they crashed Grindr trying to arrange their illicit liaisons!

If these complainers would just admit that some people like their coffee black, and other people like their coffee with a little cream and sugar, the world would be a much better place.

Maybe I can say that to them personally, the next time I see them … on Grindr.

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.

Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .

Acting Secretary Gaynor Tours the U.S. Capitol Washington, D.C. (January 17, 2021) Acting Homeland Security Secretary Pete Gaynor and Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller tour the U.S. Capitol building and interact with National Guard Soldiers assigned to ensure security ahead of the Presidential Inauguration. Original public domain image from Flickr

Got a question for the MAGAts.

The other day, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to approve a budget that, when you strip away all the horseshit, amounts to this:

It takes money away from people who don’t have very much money, and it gives that money to people who have dump trucks full of money.

And I’d like the MAGAts to explain something to me:

How the hell did they convince you to support something that is contrary to your interests?

How the hell did they do that?

You don’t have to answer that question, because I already know the answer.

Somehow, they managed to convince you that they hate the same people you hate, and your hate was more important to you than your fellow Americans, your hate was more important to you than the Constitution, and your hate was more important to you than the country itself.

You guys are so fond of throwing the Bible in our faces so let me ask you this: Doesn’t the Bible say something about loving thy fellow man?

You guys need to do a serious soul check, because when your hate is more important than love, I’m not sure you’re even human anymore.

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.

Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .