Month: January 2023

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Speaking Truth to Power

    • AMERICAN VALUES OVER AUTOCRACY.
    • BENEVOLENCE OVER BIGOTRY.
    • THE CONSTITUTION OVER THE CODE.
    • DEMOCRACY OVER DEMAGOGUES.
    • ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OVER EXTREMISM.
    • FREEDOM OVER FASCISM.
    • GOVERNING OVER GASLIGHTING.
    • HOPEFULNESS OVER HATRED.
    • INCLUSION OVER ISOLATION.
    • JUSTICE OVER JUDICIAL OVERREACH.
    • KNOWLEDGE OVER KANGAROO COURTS.
    • LIBERTY OVER LIMITATION.
    • MATURITY OVER MAR-A-LAGO.
    • NORMALCY OVER NEGATIVITY.
    • OPPORTUNITY OVER OBSTRUCTION.
    • PEOPLE OVER POLITICS.
    • QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES OVER Q-ANON.
    • REASON OVER RACISM.
    • SUBSTANCE OVER SLANDER.
    • TRIUMPH OVER TYRANNY.
    • UNDERSTANDING OVER UGLINESS.
    • VOTING RIGHTS OVER VOTER SUPPRESSION.
    • WORKING FAMILIES OVER THE WELL-CONNECTED.
    • XENNIAL OVER XENOPHOBIA.

Did you catch the looks on the faces of McCarthy and the Q-Anon contingent as soon as he started on this list? It was priceless!

And somehow, this also seems appropriate to post in this context…

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I've Started Going Through Stuff

…in anticipation of our move late next month and I ran across this. Not sure when it dates from. Maybe 2012? I know at the time it caused quite a stink.

But funny how it's just as—if not more—applicable today than it was then.

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Wut?!

Woman sitting behind me and to my left just announced to her companion, "I've found the one true god!"

And which god exactly would that be, darling? I know exactly who you were referring to, but in the interest of fairness, is it Mithra? Horus? Zeus? Osiris? Enril? Shiva? Vishnu? Aphrodite? Yahweh? Quetzalcoatl? Apollo? Bixia? I'm sure I've overlooked a few thousand.

I'm torn between turning to her and asking, "Wut?!" and "How special for you!"

But I chose instead to ignore her, put in my headphones, and crank The Purple Zone until my ears bled.

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It's not as funny if you actually understand German.