JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the Tricky Dick, Anthony Weiner Show!

WEINER: Dick

DICK: Weiner

WEINER: Dick

DICK: Weiner

SCENE 1: [AT CAFETERIA–LUNCHTIME, US CAPITOL]

DICK: [Looks around] Things haven’t changed much.

WEINER: [To Dick] By the way, I’m Anthony Weiner.

DICK: Dick, nice to meet you. [To cafeteria attendant, 18 to look younger]: I’ll have a couple of uh, sausages there.

WEINER: Nice to meet you Dick. Do any tricks, Dick.

DICK: Checkers, you? Andy the Handy?

WEINER: Carlos Danger [Looks at attendant].

DICK: She could get us in trouble.

WEINER: Just cafeteria talk.

[Attendant hands Tricky Dick his sausages and looks at Weiner; Diana Ross song starts playing, “upside down, boy, you turn me, inside out, round and round…”] [To attendant]: What’s your name?

CASINA: Casina Naste.

TRICKY DICK: [Has been tapping his feet to song playing over the PA system, trying to be as loose and hip as he can.  When “round and round” is played, Dick may swing his hips and say]: Casina Naste.

WEINER: [Over the music] They have to be 18 to work here! [To Casina] Can I tag you? [Takes a picture before she can answer, of himself or her, who knows, maybe even both or all three of them]. [To Dick]: Carlos Danger. [To Casina]: Casina, C-A-S-I-N-A?

DICK: Weiner…

WEINER: “I am not a dick.”

DICK: Weiner.

WEINER: Dick.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/11/05/weinerdick

“Your generation will be skipped.” He was a Republican.

“The Chinese will [rule the world, or take over the world, he didn’t express it explicitly]” #SanFrancisco.  Funny, my grandfather, his father, scolded me for picking up a comb off the crosswalk asphalt. “A Chinaman might have [owned it].”

And again, my father told me he thought generations skip, one good, the next evil. I didn’t agree with him.  He’s descended from a Duke. What do you expect? He would like #BurgerKing even though he didn’t have a 3-Way Burger.  Maybe he found one at Carl’s Jr.  My mother told us a story of how she had to scare off an intrigue at least once.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/thingsmyfathertoldme-4therecord

Eckrich Ropes; Nathan’s hot dogs, Smithfield Foods, Hillshire Farms ropes.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/its-a-great-time-for-sausage-focusgroups

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/film-hanna-what-do-you-believe-in-jayrombach-quoting-the-antiblamescholar-observe-blame-hew-rubens-‏raftofwater-3m3-minutes-ago-los-angeles-ca-raftofwater-jay_romb

See also, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey’s character Nurse Ratchet.

NURSE RATCHET: And then ratchet it up, ratchet it up.

BILLY: Bu-uh-bbb-but what about Bengazi?

NURSE RATCHET: Go to your room Billy.

BILLY: B-B-BUT

NURSE RATCHET: Go to your room Billy.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/11/02/dirty-little-peter

White privilege is over-rated.

Anecdotal: What Do I Know?

We start second grade and the “[h]ead [s]tart” program is formed.

Skip through struggles on every side and we now have “diversity.”  Hardly ever a mention of “affirmative action” anymore.  What was once intended for African Americans has been doled out “equally” to all oppressed minorities and immigrants.  I guess it’s fair. Immigrants before us took from the natives.

Beyonce is calling, “bow down.” We were taught to get blacks ahead by being gracious.  Sometimes I was gracious out of charity, sometimes out of fear, but it’s true, affirmative action [and the Black Panthers] made me consider “the other”.   I am pushing 60 now.  Affirmative action has run it’s course.  The functionaries put my firehose into Big Blue and realized if I lived past 65, I’d need a Phillipina nurse for the rest of my life.

Like the American astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, said on an insurance commercial, “What did I know?” [about insurance].

White privilege. You can have it y’all.

I wonder if Reagan et seq. let the Russians in to fight the black gangs?

Honorable Mention: The Nation of Islam

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/white-privilege

@leonpanetta: The US govt. makes me sick to my stomach.  Congress ignores history and relies upon their rendering of God Bless America on the steps of the Capitol.

PANETTA: Shut up.

HONALEE: You shut up Paisan.

PANETTA: Nazis are all alike.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/it-helps-are-we-a-dysfunctional-family

Listen to kusc radio, Los Angeles, Home of the USC Marshall School of Business.

–Rich Capparela

Soloist: YoYoMa plays Vivaldi on Classical KUSC. He’s gotten better.

FLO: Pretty good yo-yo, pretty good.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/yoyoma-has-improveved-progressive

Like I told my father, may he rest in peace, don’t keep working for me.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/dear-chief