Personal Musings category archive
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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.
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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.).
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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.”
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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.
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For the half of the electorate who did not vote in 2024:
If you let an idiot win an election, don’t act surprised when you end up with an idiocracy.
Better Ways To Spend My Time 0
I plan not to watch the snake of the union speech.
I’ve got better things to do than waste an hour (or more) watching a boa confabricator attempt to ensnare its prey when I can read about it in ten minutes.
Real Big Men 0
Perhpas this helps explain why so many right-wingers seem to want to exile women back into the kitchen.
How Stuff Works: The Right-WIng News Cycle 0
Persons you shouldn’t trust tell you not to trust the persons you should trust.
You can trust me on that.
An Unintended Truth 0
Yesterday, I heard a commercial for Fox News which stated that they have stories “you won’t hear anywhere else.”
It’s most certainly a true statement, but not methinks in the way that they intended it to be.
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I can’t help wondering whether Minnesota Governor Walz’s presence on the 2024 Democratic ticket is part of the Trump maladministration’s attempt to invade and conquer his state.
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In the early days of “social” media, algorithms were supposed to “attract eyeballs” and “promote engagement.”
Now they are designed to attract screwballs and promote enragement.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
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We now have a government of the Trump, by the Trump, and for the Trump.
And, as First Daughter recently pointed out, we did it to ourselves.
Stray Question 0
What’s a good word for someone who used–er–questionable means so as not to go to war, but who quite happily places others in the line of fire?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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Is there any little thing more depressing than a blow-up Santa Claus collapsed lifeless and empty in someone’s front yard on a bright December day?
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Now that the sun is setting earlier, I’ve been doing more night driving.
It seems to me, with these new-fangled headlights, the tern “low beam” no longer has any practical meaning.
Also, ironically, more persons seem to be forgetting to turn on their lights.
We are rapidly devolving.
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It’s one thing to have a President with whose policies you disagree.
It’s quite another to have a President who has no policies, only a thirst for emoluments and a desire to punish (those he perceives as) his enemies .