Venus Ramey Murphy,        
(September 26, 1924 – June 17, 2017)
American beauty pageant contestant &
activist;  Venus won the Miss America
competition in Atlantic City,
New Jersey  |      |      |      |
                           on September 9, 1944;

Born in Ashland, Kentucky,
Venus left Kentucky to work
for the war effort in
Washington, DC, & there won
the Miss District of Columbia pageant,
& then onto      Miss America in 1944;              
                      Venus Ramey
was the first Miss America
to be photographed in color
&    the first red-haired to win the title

I started listening to AM Christian
radio b/c it's funny; but on one side
of the dial is Rush Limbaugh & on
the other is Pravda in Russian; a
little further up the dial, I can hear
the latest on the record number of
undocumented transgenders running
for public office; I never thought I'd
miss dumb blondes & ******, but
happily married gay couples are the
reason a bloviating ignoramus like
Limbaugh is on the radio in the first
place;  
                           |                               
                                ­                [I'm not
the sort to gawk at penises,   but even
that would be a marked improvement
over watching Rush Limbaugh] | [I
don't watch Christian TV  b/c it's too
calculatedly stupid, as if anyone still
believed in backwoods hucksterism]
or the visible, risible conundrum of
an over-the-hill beauty queen;   what
does one do after being crowned one
of the most beautiful women on earth;
Jesus, **** or homosexuality [        ]