HERE ARE THE RESULTS FROM MY LATEST REAL STREET INTERVIEW.

WHEN ASKED...

WHAT'S GETTING TOUGHER FOR THE NON-HOMELESS TO DO THESE DAYS? BUY AN ASSAULT WEAPON OR VOTE...

35 SAID: VOTE

12 SAID: BUY AN ASSAULT WEAPON

23 SAID: WHO CARES

AND 88 SAID: GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME RAGS!

THE VOICE IN THOSE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY DRUG ADS SHOULD SAY...

ASK YOUR EMERGENCY ROOM ATTENDING ABOUT CALLING FOR DRUG PRICING REFORM.

Hypocrites

Tens of millions of American hate the U.S. government... but will purchase products from the huge corporations that run the government.

Hyporites.

I HEARD C-SPAN IS SHOWING A CONVERSATION BETWEEN DICK CHENEY AND HIS DAUGHTER LIZ.

THAT'S NICE. BUT NEXT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ONE BETWEEN DICK CHENEY AND HIS DAUGHTER MARY.

BUT I'M DREAMING, RIGHT?

DICK... BEING THE FORMER MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD -WHILE RUNNING THE BUSH PRESIDENCY, ANTI-GAY, AND A REPUBLICAN...

HE ISN'T ALLOWED TO APPEAR WITH HIS GAY DAUGHTER.

COMING SOON ON BOX TV...

THE SECOND OR THIRD SHOWING OF THE WASTED BROTHERS FILM, THE ASSAULT WEAPON MONOLOGUES.

IN A LIBRARY I TAKE A NAP IN ON OCCASION I SPOTTED A DVD RENTAL TITLED, CURSE OF ALCATRAZ.

AND IN ADDITION TO IMMEDIATELY THINKING OF THE CLASSIC ALCATRAZ ESCAPE FILM STARRING CLINT EASTWOOD...

I WONDERED IF THE COMPANY THAT PRODUCED CURSE... WOULD BE WILLING TO FOLLOW THAT DRAMA WITH A FILM CALLED...

CURSE OF THE 21st CENTURY AMERICAN WORKING CLASS.

JEOPARDY, ON BOX, CONTINUES

AND THE ANSWER IS:

BRUCE WILLIS.

THE CORRECT QUESTION:

WHO IS THE LATEST MULTI-MILLIONAIRE ACTOR TO KILL A CHILD IN A FILM?

EPITAPH I SAW ON SOMEONE'S NEWLY CREATED GRAVE STONE...

YEAH I SAW THAT LIGHT... CAUSED BY EXTRA BRAIN ACTIVITY AT THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.

NOT!

JUST SPOTTED A YOUNG ASIAN MAN WEARING A T-SHIRT THAT STATED... KEEP CALM AND CALL BATMAN.

HOW 'BOUT WEARING ONE THAT STATES...

F#%K CALMNESS, GET INVOLVED.

I'M BAD.

WHILE BEGGING AROUND NOON TODAY IN A DELI...

I APPROACHED A BEER DRINKER WHOM I COULD TELL HAD A FEW...

AND WHO WAS WEARING A REALLY BRIGHT SHIRT...

AND SAID, "BECAUSE YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY CELEBRATING NEON GREEN T-SHIRT DAY, HOW 'BOUGHT HELPING ME OUT WITH SOME CHANGE SO I CAN GET A PIECE OF CHICKEN?"

MOST LIKELY KNOWING I WAS LYING...

ALSO KNOWING IT REALLY IS GROUND HOG DAY...

HER REACTION WAS... "BUG OFF, MATE!... IN MUCH STRONGER WORDS.

YEAH, I'M BAD.

254 GUNS OFF THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY IS GREAT NEWS.

BUT A HEADLINE OF...

254 HOMELESS MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN OFF THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY...

WOULD BE EVEN BETTER.

JUST PASSED A YOUNG NON-HOMELEES WHITE MAN WEARING A CAP THAT STATED,  I HEART CHINA.

FIRST TIME I'D SEEN THAT.

MAYBE HE SHOPS AT WALMART.

A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

WHICH SMELLS WORSE?

THAT OF A VERY RICH NON-HOMELESS WOMEN WHO SMELLS LIKE PERFUME AND CIGARETTE SMOKE...

A VERY RICH NON-HOMELESS MAN WHO SMELLS LIKE COLOGNE AND CIGARETTE SMOKE...

OR A HOMELESS WOMAN  WHO HAS NOT WASHED UP FOR SIX WEEKS?

I WILL NEVER CALL PENN STATE UNIVERSITY ...PSU... PEDOPHILE STATE UNIVERSITY... LIKE SO MANY OTHERS DO TODAY.

BUT I WILL FOREVERMORE THINK OF IT AS SO.
YOU TOO?

THE UGLY PART OF THE U.S., IN FICTION, IS OFTEN SHOWN IN HOLLYWOOD FILMS.

AND NOW... IN NON-FICTION... THE RAGS SHOW.

RAGS QUESTIONS OF THE MOMENT

WHERE DID THAT COME FROM... FIRETRUCKS SPORTING AMERICAN FLAGS?

AND WHEN WAS THE VERY FIRST TIME A FIREMAN, VOLUNTEER OR OTHERWISE, PLACE ONE ON THE REAR OF A TRUCK?

RAGS QUESTION OF THE MOMENT

WHAT DO YOU THINK CONTRIBUTES MORE TO CRIME TODAY?

ALCOHOL ADDICTION AND/OR CONSUMPTION...

OR INCOME INEQUALITY?

I WANDERED THROUGH THE UES IN MANHATTAN TODAY. A VERY COMFORTABLE DAY TEMPERATURE WISE.

AND WHILE I WAS LOOKING AT THE STORE FRONTS I NOTICEDTHE CLOTHING STORES APPEAR TO USE ONLY WHITE COLORED MANNEQUINSTO HIGHLIGHT THEIR GOODS.

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT IT SURPRISED ME A BIT.

JUST LEARNED FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW BOOK DOWN IN THE CHAPEL...

THAT 20 PRISONS HAVE BEEN BUILT IN PENNSYLVANIA IN THE PAST 30 YEARS.

MY REACTION. QUESTIONS.

IS THAT THE BEST A THIS STATE CAN DO TO CREATE JOBS... WHILE AT THE SAME TIME TOSS AWAY PRECIOUS YET TROUBLED HUMAN LIVES?

AND DO SO IN THE SO-CALLED GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD?

WAYS THE RICH GET RICHER TODAY (#42)

AT&T HIRING MARIANO RIVERA TO PLUG THEIR PRODUCT... NOT SOMEONE LIKE YOU, ME OR SOME OTHER MEMBER OF THE SHRINKING MIDDLE CLASS.

JUST HEARD ABOUT A NEW SHOW ON THE COMEDY CHANNEL CALLED DRUNK HISTORY...

WONDERING IF THEY'LL PLAY IT SAFE AND NOT EVEN CONSIDER  OFFERING HUMOROUS VERSIONS OF HISTORIC EVENTS LIKE:

U.S. BOMBINGS OF NAGASAKI AND HIROSHIMA

U.S. EXITING VIETNAM

BEATING OF RODNEY KING BY L.A. COPS

TERRORIST ATTACKS OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BY RADICAL MUSLIMS

U.S. INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF IRAQ

ETC. ETC.

YEAH, THEY'LL PROBABLY PLAY IT SAFE.

THE BEHAVIOR OF THE NON-HOMELESS IS OFTEN EASILY PREDICTABLE...

WENDY'S TELLS ITS CUSTOMERS TO BUY ITS PRETZEL BACON CHEESEBURGER...

AND WHAT DO THEY DO?

BUY ITS PRETZEL BACON CHEESBURGER.

RAGS QUESTION OF THE... MOMENT

ARE SO-CALLED CHRISTIANS ALLOWED TO GO BEYOND THEIR COMFORT ZONE?

ADDITIONALLY...

NOW READING FROM A NAPKIN I WAS JUST HANDED...

AND WHICH I CAN BARELY MAKE OUT...

SOME OF THE PRIOR SEGMENTS OF THE RAGS SHOW WAS...

AND THE CORRECT WORD TO USE HERE IS WERE...

SOME OF THE PRIOR SEGMENTS OF THE RAGS SHOW WERE BROUGHT TO YOU BY... NOBUCKS.

WITH THREE, SOMETIMES FOUR FLAVORS OF OUR ESPECIALLY ADDICTIVE COFFEE TO CHOSE FROM... DROP ON IN.

AND BRING YOUR OWN MUG.

JUST PASSED A MONITOR A FEW MINUTES AGO AND SPOTTED ON IT THE STATEMENT...

THE NEW YORK TIMES: ACT NOW!

AND FOR A FLEETING MOMENT I GOT EXCITED AND ACTUALLY WONDERED IF THE STRUGGLING COMPANY WAS INVOLVED IN SOME SORT OF SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTION.

BUT THEN THE STATEMENT WAS REPLACED BY ONE ANNOUNCING A SUBSCRIPTION SAVINGS OF 50%... ETC, ETC.

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER, RIGHT?

THE AD I JUST SAW ON A TV FROM VANS FAMOUS FOOTWEAR CLAIMS...

VICTORY IS YOURS.

RIGHT... THE SHRINKING MIDDLE CLASS IS REAL VICTORIOUS THESE DAYS.

RAGS REAL STREET INTERVIEW

HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF MY LATEST REAL STREET INTERVIEW POSED TO THE BUMS OF HTOWN USA...

WHEN ASKED, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE SUSPENSION OF ALEX RODRIGUEZ?...

24 SAID: HE DESERVED IT.

22 SAID: WHAT A SHAME.

1 SAID: HE'S SO GOOD-LOOKING I'D LIKE TO... CENSORED... TO HIM.... AND... CENSORED... ON MY BOX.

51 SAID: NEVER HEARD OF HIM.

AND 60 SAID: GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME RAGS!

I ALMOST FORGOT...

HERE IS MY REPORT ON HOW I THINK THE YANKEES HAVE DONE AT THE HALF.WAY POINT OF THE SEASON.

IN MY OPINION THE YANKEES HAVE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB... AT PLACING ITS FANS IN FRONT OF ADS.

THAT'S RIGHT, IN FRONT OF ADS. ADS...

IN PRINT
ON TELEVISION
ONLINE
IN THE STADIUMS... HOME AND AWAY

AND ON THE RADIO.

ESPECIALLY ON THE RADIO WHERE I AT LEAST AM SICK OF THE FORD, BIGELOW TEA, WENDYS, KARS FOR KIDS, NY DAILY NEWS, GEICO AND OTHER ADS.

YEP, THE YANKEES HAVE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB OF PLACING ADS IN FRONT OF FANS.

AND HAVE DONE SO FOR A LONG TIME.

SO... A SECURITY ALERT HAS BEEN PASSED ON TO YOU, ME AND ANYONE ELSE TUNED IN TO THE MEDIA.

YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, RIGHT?

A WHOLE LOT OF BAG WATCHING WILL BE TAKING PLACE...

AND RACIAL PROFILING IS RECOMMENDED.

I KNOW. I USED TO DO IT. AND IT IS STILL GOING ON.

POOR PEOPLE IN BARS DRINKING, WHILE LISTENING TO THE MUSIC OF THE RICH...

AND ALMOST AS OFTEN WATCHING TV MONITORS FULL OF THE RICH.

SAD.