"Use All The Crayons!" ... Politics
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New blog post! “A Latrobe guy considers what Trump said about Palmer”
A thoughtful reader read the above post and felt compelled to tell me I’d fallen short of her expectations of me. She wrote:
“As you know, I have always followed your writings and have your books but I wish you had taken a stronger stand on the disrespectful comments made about Arnie. They weren’t funny. They were disrespectful and bizarre.”
I agree. But what good would it do for me — or you — if I expressed those thoughts? If I thought I could change even one mind, I would.
But it’s impossible to change the minds of the mindless.
I include myself in the lobotomized. There is nothing you can say that’ll change my mind. And I don’t believe in wasting my provocations. I don’t think there’s anyone who reads my stuff to get my take on how Chinese tariffs are impacting the auto industry.
And what good could come from me insulting the guy who fixes the brakes on my car?
For the record, if it matters at all, I’m voting for — spoiler alert! —Kamala and those tariffs are going to have a detrimental effect on the car industry.
Today’s topic is …
POLITICS …
• I miss good music and simpler times but I'm most nostalgic for the day when I didn't know your politics and you didn't know mine.
• The world will be better off when our elected officials would stop quoting "Art of War" author Sun Tzu and start quoting Fred Rogers.
• Every four years I'm forced to overcome the confusion over whether Dixville Notch is an electorally significant New Hampshire village and not some anatomically precise porno jargon.
• It wasn't until 2001 that all Pennsylvania bars were allowed to serve alcohol on Election Day. Can you imagine having to go through a day like this sober? Such wanton cruelty.
• It should be in the Constitution that nobody should be allowed to hold elective office unless he or she can prove they once held a job that required them to wear a name tag.
• The literalist in me revels in the fact that the Great Plains state of Iowa has a senator named Grassley and yearns for the day when Wisconsin voters send to Washington their Senator Cheesey.
• I’ll pay no attention to political witch hunts til investigators reveal evidence subject is actual witch.
• I used to believe politics was a pendulum that swung back and forth. Now, I realize it's a ping pong ball getting the shit relentlessly smashed out of it.
• The self-loathing true conservatives feel at supporting Trump must be akin to what dying vegetarians feel when they realize they’re about to turn zombie.
RANDOMS
• May not be in our lifetimes but at some point some high school band'll road trip to the moon. They're going to have to sell lots of hoagies.
• Looking in the mirror when you wake up can ruin your psyche for the whole day. Me, I try not to look until I've had at least three beers.
• Trying to justify value of writing to people who don't read is like trying to justify the value of fresh air to fish.
• Single apple seed weighs 700 mg but sinks. A battleship weighs 45k tons, but does not. What would happen to battleship full of apple seeds?
• The idea behind "pursuit of happiness" misleads. Find a comfy enough chair & pursuit becomes unnecessary. Happiness'll finds you.
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I think the comment from W.C. Fields when he was told he could not enter a favorite Bar on election day was," This is taking democracy too far!"