Personal Musings category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
It occurs to me that this whole anti-DEI movement is all about making sure those folks (you know who they are) know their place and stay in it.
A Moment of Duh! 0
It came to me today, as I was reading about this, that the reason the white right-wing is against DEI is right there in the words themselves.
The opposite of DEI is UIE: uniformity, inequality, and exclusion.
Stray Thought 0
I never expected that I would be living in a rogue state.
Stray Thought 0
It should surprise no one that Donald Trump has set his sights on the Department of Education.
After all, he’s on record that he loves the poorly educated, so, clearly, in Trump world, it makes sense to promote poorer education.
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 0
After years of warning us that the federal government cannot be trusted, the right-wing and the Republican Party have succeeded in giving us . . .
. . . a federal government that cannot be trusted.
Stray Question 0
Why do so many persons seem to think that daylight savings time “makes more daylight” when all it does is move daylight about?
Oxymoron of the Day 0
No, not “responsible gun owner.” That’s an oxymoron every day.
The oxymoron of the day is Trump administration.
A. Enron 0
Q. What business are Republicans thinking of when they say, “Run the government like a business?”
Because It Is. Okay? 0
Stray Thought 0
There is no sign more convincing of the end of intelligent life than the sight of grown men walking around in cargo shorts in near-freezing weather.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
It appears that Republicans did not have to gut out the vote.
Voters did it for them.
My Daddy taught me through example that voting is not a right.
It is a duty.
Via PoliticalProf, it would appear that a large portion of the citizenry was not taught that lesson or, perhaps, chose to ignore it.
I fear that they–and the rest of us who did vote–will pay dearly for their indolence and apathy.
Recommended Listening 0
Harry Shearer’s interview with Dr. Stephanie Kelton, professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University, in which they hold a balanced discussion of the federal deficit; In the course of their discussion, Kelton explodes many of the myths and falsehoods spread by the self-styled “deficit hawks.” The discussion starts at the 21-minute mark.
By the way, the rest of the show is also well worth a listen. I try not to miss an episode.
Stray Thought 0
Today’s Republican Party does not only value party over country.
It values party over competence.
“The Party of Personal Responsibility” 0
Despite what some pundits appear to (want us to) believe, Democrats are not to blame for what Republicans choose to do.
Taking Exception 0
Methinks this cartoonist has got it exactly backwards as to who failed to learn from history.
And methinks we shall all pay a great price for that failure to learn.
Recommended Viewing 0
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Ronald Howard.
The series is faithful to the spirit of the Canon, yet has a delightfully tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.
I’m watching it on Tubi, but you can likely find it elsewhere.
Signs of the Fall 0
I seldom look at the sport section of my local rag (except to read Bob Molinaro’s column, because he is a fine writer with a sharp pen and a wicked sense of humor). Even when I paid much more attention to sports than I do now, I was more interesting in watching competitions than in reading about them.
Nevertheless, as I leafed through the sports section on the way to the agony columns in yesterday’s paper (yes, paper, not electrons), something caught my eye.
My local rag now carries a syndicated column methinks no doubt subtly designed to suck people into covering sports betting.
We are a broken society.
Stray Thought 0
When persons loudly and repeatedly crow about how patriotic they are, they probably aren’t.
Dissonance 0
As I was preparing to hang the flag out–something I do for national holidays–I thought of others who fly the flag, maybe just not only on holidays as I do but every day, some of them even flying maybe multiple flags from their “I am an inadequate male” pick-up trucks.
I thought of how they congratulate themselves on being such patriots.
And I wondered, as they do that, do they think of the pledge, do they repeat the words
. . . and liberty and justice for all . . . .
to themselves, even as they vote for Donald Trump, the man who puts children in cages?
The Rule of Flaw 0
I go to sleep worrying about the American dream.
I wake up to the American scream.
I am not sanguine.