The Hip Hop Anthropologist

 Not to worry. The tattered remnants of the Grand Oaf Party will emerge like a specter from the ashes of our moribund democracy to push back against trumpty dumpty's authoritarian yearnings once chump the brain dead comic carnival barker aka klueless the klown starts the wholesale dismantling of the intelligence community (which has been eerily silent knowing tRump is a spy at best, a Manchurian candidate at worse), breaking long-standing treaties like NATO, the Abraham Accords, and the Paris Climate Treaty; green lights China's annexation of Taiwan, destabilizes the 27 resource-rich Sub-Saharan African [read that: "shithole"] countries on an industrial scale enabling his billionaire buddies to exploit these countries free of interference by popular, democratically elected leaders, while giving Israel free reign to totally decimate the Palestinians. The internal strife, the civil war, coupled by a House prayfully led by Hakeem Jeffries will render MAGA impotent after ...

Order # 116-1774013-2488258 Dear Mr. Bezos, One of two critically needed automotive parts was delivered Tuesday, opened Wednesday but was “cracked.” We immediately contacted Amazon to again try and explain that this situation is causing a major imposition - not to mention spiraling out-of-pocket costs (hundreds of dollars in uncredited payments, taxicab fare for the last two weeks, and shipping costs on items going only a mile or two by either USPS or UPS). The customer service representative asked us to buy another part instead of taking ownership for this service failure, and clearly represented that she would overnight the part, which we have been awaiting since April 9th. After we stupidly ordered the part, she tells us that she cannot overnight it. The earliest we can expect it is by Friday. (The truck has been sitting in Delaware for the last two weeks.) We told her as we have ECR that is unacceptable. We cancelled the order. We were told our money could take up to seven da...