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People, kinds and unkind
There are people you talk to and people you avoid. Benny, my neighbor on the next block, falls squarely into the second category. He has a nice enough little house, a bit worn and tired like most...
Unrelieved
The man stood in my doorway bemoaning his difficult day. He’s a genial fellow and, having many difficult days myself, I don’t begrudge him using me as a pressure valve. We all need to blow off ...
Brain explosion
I cannot find words. I’m totally scrambled. Beyond belief. He’s dropped any pretense. He’s openly supporting white supremacists. “there were good people in that crowd…” Really? You can put on sy...
Many sides
I don’t know. I don’t want to agree with the man, but what he says does sound reasonable and right. The president condemns the hatred and violence in Charlottesville “from many sides.” It woul...
About witch hunts
He may be right. The whole thing may be a witch hunt. Of course, that doesn’t meant that he hasn’t been very busy turning the White House into the American branch of Hogwart’s. Seriously, Dons,...
The off switch
Had another Nathe blow-up last night. It didn’t surprise me. The fuse was lit the moment I allowed him to start talking politics. What surprised me was what caused the actual explosion. Given ...
A bit of advice that will go untaken
Donald, dear, if you want people to stop saying that you’re a duck, stop quacking and waddling.
A fitting retort
After the recent terrorist attack in the British capital, the unpresidential American president, in the most inappropriate and blatantly politically self-serving manner, tweeted “Do you notice w...
The new etiquette
I have to remember to keep my mouth shut. I have to remember that my thoughts, however rational and obvious and in need of release through discussion they may be, my views are not welcome here. ...
Inappropriate on levels heretofore unplumbed
Just when you think that the man could not possibly do anything more inappropriate than he has done already, he proves you have under-estimated him again. Let us put aside the politics, - Ther...
Oh poor he
Wrong on so many levels. “No politician in history has been treated worse…“ A speaker is invited to a commencement. He’s supposed to give an inspiring speech to the graduates. It’s their big day....
Nobody dies
Republican Rep. Raul Labrador sparked outrage from his audience and online after saying “nobody dies” for lack of health care access in a town hall Friday night at Lewis-Clark State College in Le...
The inevitable
I am addicted to the news lately. It’s become a rather unhealthy obsession, but I cannot stop. This is the train wreck from which I cannot escape. I am as drawn to all this as I am appalled by it...
Feet on the couch
KellyAnne knelt on the couch in the oval office - Anger! Furor! Indignity! Oh hell’s bells, get over it. Who freaking cares. It isn’t even surprising. Obviously, if she can’t tell the difference...
How can that be? He likes you.
Excerpt from a post-inaugural interview by O’Reilly O’REILLY: You know what was fascinating? To watch you at the Inauguration with Barack Obama. You guys seemed to get along, alright. Would tha...
Mutton
Once upon just yesterday ago, there was a law to protect the people great and small from those who would rob them of their life savings and leave them destitute in their old age. You would not...
Currently cursed
“May you live in interesting times.” I don’t think we should think of that as the Chinese curse anymore. I’m fairly certain it’s more of a Russian curse these days.
Hello and good-bye
We are still marking his time in office by days and weeks and already, already!, not even a month in, the first scandal-caused resignation. Does this surprise?
There are some places a litmus test is required
Saw my doctor this week. I like her, a lot. There was a possibility, though, that I was going to have to end our comfortable relationship of several years. It all depended on her answer to one qu...
I hope at least the Kool-Aid tastes good
The trumpists are crowing. They are completely unconcerned that the man lies, doubles down on his lies, and has his spin meisters spewing “alternative facts” as though facts are subjective. Peo...
A bar so low you can't see daylight under it
Honestly, before this particular election, as anyone who’s read me over these many years can attest, I never said word one about politics. I had faith that it would all work itself out and who ...
The truth is out there
There is such a thing as truth. It does exist no matter how many layers of bs are put down to obfuscate it. The new party line, perfected by the ImPOTUS (Imminent President of the United States...
Paradigm shift
The quote was sent to me by a friend and it is stunningly apt. “It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all. He saw to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinen...
I could censor myself but..
I have a big entry in draft that I cannot finish. It is my attempt to sift out why I am so - and here, even, I cannot finish that sentence - I am that torn and jumbled. There is so much for me ...
A disturbing echo of larger trends
I would have put this in the book “Boystories” because it is indeed a story about boys, but those are usually funny stories. This one is not. This one belongs in “Deplorable thoughts.” ////////...
