Bill Maher has suggested that the Democrats need to fight as dirty as the Republicans do. The Dems are too nice, he says. They follow all the traditional rules of politics. The Republicans, on the other hand, lie and cheat and make their own rules. And they play by their own dirty rules.
So Maher and his Real Time with Bill Maher staff put together this commercial that they think the Dems should air. And you know what? I couldn’t agree more! It’s time for the Dems to start playing by their own rules too. Otherwise, America is fucked!
It’s time for another Who Won the Week prompt. The idea behind Who Won the Week is for you to select who you think “won” this past week. Your selection can be anyone or anything — politicians, celebrities, athletes, authors, bloggers, your friends or family members, books, movies, TV shows, businesses, organizations, whatever.
I will be posting this prompt on Sunday mornings (my time). If you want to participate, write your own post designating who you think won the week and why you think they deserve your nod. Then link back to this post and tag you post with FWWTW.
This week I am choosing a date. Today’s date, as a matter of fact. February 2, 2020, or 02/02/2020.What’s so special about today’s date that I’m declaring that it won the week? Well, first of all, it’s a palindrome. A palindrome, as you might know, is a sequence that reads the same forward as it does backward. But this date is a rare eight-digit palindrome when written as 02/02/2020. In fact, it’s the only one of its kind this century.
That’s right, in this century there is only one such palindrome date which is expressed with eight digits, where you have the complete year number on the right and the month and day can be swapped. In other words, it’s unusually cross-cultural, since whether you write the date American style, as MM/DD/YEAR, or as they do in many other parts of the world as DD/MM/YEAR, it’s still a palindrome.
02/02/2020 is also the 33rd day of the year, which is followed by 333 more days because it’s a 366 day leap year!
And if that’s not enough, today is also Super Bowl Sunday and Groundhog Day. How can this date, 02/02/2020 not win the week?
And now it’s your turn, folks. Who (or what) do you think won the week?
Each day during the month of February, at around 6 am Pacific Time, I will be posting an old adage, an old saying, a familiar expression that we’ve all heard and have probably used during our lifetimes. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, will be to post a story, a poem, an image, an interpretation of what the expression means to you, or to do whatever it is that you want to do based upon the daily adage.
Please tag your post with #FFE and create a pingback to this post or include your link in a comment on each day’s post.
Have fun and be sure to read what others have posted in response to this prompt.
For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, Jim Adams asked us to pick a song about pet names we use as terms of endearment for that special someone in our life. I was thinking about going with Elton John’s “The Bitch is Back,” but then I noticed that Jim asked us to focus on more endearing terms, like “babe,” “cutie,” “doll,” “honey,” and “sweetie.” And so, for the third time in five weeks, I’m going with a Van Morrison song, “Tupelo Honey.”
“Tupelo Honey” was written by Van Morrison and was the title song from his 1971 album, Tupelo Honey. The song was released as a single in 1972, and it reached number 47 on the U.S. pop chart. Tupelo honey, for your information, is honey made from the sweet flowers of the tupelo tree, which grows abundantly in swampy areas of the southeastern United States.
“Tupelo Honey” was written as an homage to the domestic happiness Morrison had found once he’d married his wife Janet. They’d met during his time with Them, an Irish R&B band. She was also his muse for several of Morrison’s earlier songs, including “Crazy Love,” a song I featured in my December 29, 2019 Song Lyric Sunday post. In fact, the song’s melody, which has a catchy, soulful, and almost mystical feel to it, was borrowed from Morrison’s song “Crazy Love,” released the previous year.
Here are the lyrics to “Tupelo Honey.”
You can take all the tea in China
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around all the seven oceans
Drop it straight into the deep blue sea
She’s as sweet as Tupelo honey
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as Tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee
You can’t stop us on the road to freedom
You can’t keep us ’cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor bent on chivalry
She’s as sweet as Tupelo honey
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as Tupelo honey
Just like honey, baby, from the bee
You can’t stop us on the road to freedom
You can’t stop us ’cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor intent on chivalry
She’s as sweet as Tupelo honey
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as Tupelo honey
Just like honey, baby, from the bee
You know she’s alright, oh she’s alright with me
You know, you know, you know she’s alright, she alright with me
You know, you know, you know you know
You know she’s alright, alright with me
She’s alright, she’s alright
She’s alright with me
She’s alright
She’s alright with me
She’s alright
She’s alright with me
She’s al, she’s alright, she’s alright
She’s alright with me
She’s alright, she’s alright, she’s alright, she’s alright
You can take all the tea in China
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail it right around all these seven oceans
Drop it smack dab in the middle of the deep blue sea
Because, she’s as sweet as Tupelo honey, yes she is
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as Tupelo honey
Just like honey, baby, from the bee
She’s as sweet as Tupelo honey
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as Tupelo honey
Just like the honey, from the bee
She’s alright, she’s alright with me
She’s my baby, you know she’s alright
She’s my baby, she’s my baby, she’s alright
She’s my baby
Welcome to February 2, 2020 and to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). It’s designed to fill the void after WordPress bailed on its daily one-word prompt.
I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (US).
Today’s word is “tribal.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Or you can simply include a link to your post in the comments.
The issue with pingbacks not showing up seems to have been resolved, but you might check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.
It’s time for another Who Won the Week prompt. The idea behind Who Won the Week is for you to select who you think “won” this past week. Your selection can be anyone or anything — politicians, celebrities, athletes, authors, bloggers, your friends or family members, books, movies, TV shows, businesses, organizations, whatever.
This, That, and the Other 