Personal Musings category archive
Q. How Does a Country Become an Idiocracy? 0
A. It selects an idiot to be its leader, then it follows the leader.
The Lake Effect 0
Last night, while watching an episode of Murdoch Mysteries, I looked up a map of Canada on Google Maps so as to understand a reference in the episode I was watching.
When I saw “Lake America” where I should have seen “Lake Huron,” I wanted to gag.
Google’s days of “don’t be evil” are clearly long behind them.
Shills 0
Last night, an app on my phone prompted me to install Polymarket.
As I have no desire to find myself somewhere down the road attending GA meetings, I declined.
I find it saddening that this app, which I’ve used for years, is now shilling for sharks.
And this growth in online gambling does not cast a positive light on the perspicacity of the populace.
Barnum was wrong.
There’s more than one born every minute.
Stray Thought 0
When I worked for the railroad, I often took the train to New York City on business. The first sign that we were nearing our destination was the twin towers of the World Trade Center looming over the bluffs of Jew Jersey before we plunged into the tunnel to Penn Station.
The last time I made that trip, long after I left the railroad, there was nothing.
Just the plunge into the tunnel.
Stray Question 0
Why do so many persons who loudly proclaim their love of the God of Love also loudly broadcast their hatred of persons who don’t look like them or think like them?
Devolution 0
I never expected that my country would become a rogue state.
But it looks like it’s well on the way to being one.
Stray Thought 0
I just realized that Donald Trump’s motto must be
If at first you don’t succeed, then lie, lie again.
Stray Thought 0
Republicans keep complaining about “election integrity.”
Even though today’s Republican Party does not know the meaning of “integrity.” (Look it up.)
Heck, if they met integrity on the street, they would probably call 911 in a panic.
Stray Thought 0
As it’s Flag Day, I would normally display my American flag from our deck, which faces the street.
I usually do so on national (as opposed to religious) holidays.
However, because of Donald Trump’s desecration of Flag Day with his narcissistic commercialized cage match, I just cannot bring myself to do so.
Stray Thought 0
Nethinks one clear warning sign of a rule of lawless is “a secretive police.”
The Me Veneration 0
Words cannot express my disgust at our national narcissist’s spreading his taint on pleasuring himself with our nation’s currency.
Stray Thought 0
If you want me to contribute to your cause, ask me honestly.
Don’t try to con me with a pretend opinion poll.
If you do, I’ll contribute nothing but my contempt.
Stray Thought 0
Under a properly run government, citizens are not continually surprised by what their government just did and don’t find themselves worrying about what the heck it’s going to do next.
Stray Thought 0
A cartoon can tell a whole story in six minutes.
A reality show never ends.
Personally, I prefer cartoons.
They are more real than reality shows.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I’m a Southern boy.
I grew up under Jim Crow and attended segregated schools.
I remember my Daddy making sure he paid his poll taxes.
I know racism when I see it.
This is racism, pure and simeple.
Fly the Fiendly Skies, Reprise 0
Back when I was a road warrior, jetting off on business trips once and sometimes twice a month. Southwest was my preferred airline.
I’m pretty sure that would not be the case today
(And, no, I would have not been subject the “tax” referred to at the link.).
Stray Thought 0
I’m so old, I can remember when dances had steps.
Stray Question 0
Is it not ironic that the very persons who have long claimed that the federal government can’t be trusted have given us a federal government that can’t be trusted?
But, as Professor Shade was fond of saying, “History is irony.”
Stray Thought 0
For some reason, last night I happened to remember that John F. Kennedy wrote a book entitled Profiles in Courage.
If he were to come back to write a book about today’s Republican Party, I wonder what title he would choose.