Set Your Clocks Back 300 Years
Passive Aggressive Trump Supporter
Inauguration Day 2017:
I am driving home on Interstate 64 which is 4 sometimes 5 lanes wide as it goes through the St. Louis metro area. Traffic is snarled up. It turns out there is a vehicle in the fast lane driving way below the speed limit which puts him about 20 mph slower than the rest of the traffic is moving.
As I get closer I see it is an older Subaru being driven by an old man. The back of the car is covered up with Trump bumper stickers. In the back window is a big hand lettered sign that reads “Face It”.
I did the only logic thing. I flipped him off as I passed him on the right. It is going to be a long 4 years.
H. L. Mencken on Trump’s Inauguration…
A friend sent me this quote which perfectly describes the inauguration of Donald Trump:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be occupied by an incompetent, downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.” — H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
For the first time in my life I am embarrassed to say I am an American. I am thinking about getting a red maple leaf tattoo so people might accidentally mistake me for a Canadian.
What an awful day for our country.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #767
yeah I know you did not ask!
I saw an article the other day detailing how women are knitting/crocheting bright pink 
hats that symbolize “pussy power” for the Women’s March on Washington in a few days.
What I think should happen is that they also knit hats with shriveled little penises for the members of Congress to wear as most of them are real DICKS. And one for Donald Trump whereby the size of the penis matches the size of his hands.
Talk about truth in advertising.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #8,806
yeah I know you did not ask!
By the time Effingham Trump and the compassionate party known as Republicans getting done gutting social programs, people’s elderly and disabled relatives are going to be living in the basement along side people’s Millennial children.
OMG – Who told you…
I’m sitting in one of my teammate’s cube at work, a young lady with a satirical sense of humor. I am trying to show her something on the Internet on her tablet. The site is not coming up nicely.
She says to me with laughter in her voice, “Having a hard time getting it up?”
I reply, “Not yet.” Later I wished I had been quicker of wit and said, “Oh my God, who told you,” and buried my face in my hands.
Looking down her nose and across the top of her glasses she mockingly replies to this workplace appropriate exchange with, “You need to take that home.”
I was telling Robin about it later and she commented, “Well she started it, but her final remark was perfect and priceless.”
All of which reminds me of the Toby Keith song:
I ain’t as good as I once was
But I’m as good once as I ever was
To which Robin replied, “Amen.”
Footwear?
Robin just cracked me up so bad my stomach started cramping.
When we were in Mexico my flip flops broke so I started wearing a pair of hers. They are a little more colorful than I would normally wear, but hey I won’t see these people again.
What happened next I am blaming on my new footwear. I am getting a sushi roll, and while I am waiting for the young lady to make it, the gentleman behind me in line starts up a conversation. As I am leaving I swear he winks at me. Since I thought it a little funny, I told Robin about it.
On New Year’s Eve there is a big celebration at the resort. I see the gentleman again and I know for sure that he winks at me this time. Again I tell Robin.
We are going through Robin’s pictures this morning. At the resort they had set up a dance floor on the beach and Robin had taken a picture of the people dancing. Right there in the foreground was my friend. I point him out to Robin. Her comment, “Why he is cute!”
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 278
yeah I know you did not ask!
I’m at the dentist getting my teeth clean. The young female hygienist needs to move a piece of apparatus that is on a pivot from my left side to my right side. As she is doing so the vertical bar holding the tray bumps into my feet. She tells me, “I need a couple more inches.”
My internal dialogue responded, “You’re not the first female to tell me that.”
All which reminds me of my most frequent golf joke. When a putt or chip comes up a little short I have a tendency to say, “Just like my ex-wife used to tell me all the time, ‘another couple inches and that would have been pretty good.'”
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 1,613
yeah I know you did not ask!
We were riding in a taxi going from the airport in Cancun to the resort in Akumal, Mexico. Either in Cancun or Playa de Carmen I noticed a big Home Depot. It got me to wondering if there were American men congregated in the parking lot looking for day labor.
Bon Temps Roulez
We just got back from a week on the beach in sunny, warm, friendly Mexico. I mention 
this because it is snowing and 16 degrees outside. About nine or ten days before we left I noticed that my wife (aka Robin the Beautiful) was sleeping restlessly. She was also mumbling during these restless periods. I could not really make out single words, let alone a coherent sentence. Sometimes I could pick out something that sounded like Getty, get or possibly Gertrude! And sometime there was a word that sounded like back. I thought maybe she was singing the Beatles’ song Get Back. I thought that a little strange as I have not known it to be one in her repertoire, but dreams are indeed strange things. She must have really liked the song because one mumbled bit sounded a lot like groovy.
We get to the resort in Akumal and the beach is beautiful and the staff very attentive. We spent the better part of every day from about 11 a.m. until 4 or so laying in cabana Continue reading “Bon Temps Roulez”