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Okay, some of thou may consider this a bit culturally insensitive…
Flipping through the news on my phone this morning, there was a plethora of pictures of the coronation of King Charles III. I had several thoughts, but the one that kept reoccurring was that, for all the world, it looked like an over the top drag show. Long live the Queen.
I also was expecting a photograph of King Chuckie holding up a can of Bud Light at any moment.
And so it goes.
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At times, it is so very, very hard being a sarcastic SOB.
I was filling out a medical form, and even though it was a computerized form that could have been carrying redundant information from section to section, it was not.
One question it kept asking, besides my name, DOB, etc., was sex. It got where it was all I could do to not put “Yes, and often please.” But I kept reminding myself that it was a very tired, old joke, even by my standards.
Why they had not provided a drop down box with the two options – male, female – is beyond me. A free form text box seemed to be exactly the wrong option for gathering an either/or piece of data . Perhaps they were trying to be “woke”. It just struck me as stupid programming.
On a related note…
A while back a doctor asked me, “Do you drink?”
“Sure,” I replied, “Scotch neat with a splash of water, otherwise I will take whatever you are drinking.”
Apparently that was an inappropriate response in a medical setting.
And so it goes.
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Florida is the American state with the highest percentage of retirees. While folks can retire from the work-a-day world at an early age, most commonly do so in their 60s. This obviously implies that there are a lot of old geezers in the Sunshine State.
There is an Oscar Wilde quote based on the venerable adage, “With age comes wisdom.” The complete Wilde quote is “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
Given the gawd awful politicians that Florida voters keep electing to national and state offices, I do believe Oscar had it right. There is not a lot of wisdom in Florida’s selection of politicians. I frequently wonder what is in the water down there, or what they are smoking.
And so it goes.
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I am of mixed emotions. There are rumors on the Internet – seemingly from Trump, principally – that Señor Trump is going to be indicted and arrested very soon.
Part of me would very much like to have a poster of his mug shot. The larger part of me cannot stand the thought of having to stare at his ugly mug, and thus does not want such a poster in my abode. From the git-go, if Señor Trump was on television or radio, it has been channel or station changing time. My stomach could not stand watching or listening to this horrible waste of protoplasm. In a rational society, this man would be in an insane asylum… or, more properly, in prison.
What to do, what to do…
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As you are cruising around your day, have you ever looked at person and thought, “This person has completely given up… on themselves, on life, en todo?” But then again, you never really know what journey someone has been on.
While, on occasion, I have felt that way for brief periods throughout my life, I have generally snapped out of it. Most of my adult life I have exercised in one fashion or another. Especially the last two maybe two and half decades I have Continue reading “Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #4,415”
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I suppose another one you could file under ironic. Certainly something to ponder on.
I was working with one of my Spanish tutors when somehow the subject of George Floyd and Michael Brown came up. My Mexican tutor who lives in Tijuana told me that in Mexico the American police have the reputation of being brutal. I had no real argument with that, but said, “and the police in Mexico?” To which he replied, “they are not brutal, simply corrupt.”
What a world we live in when those who should be serving and protecting are frequently doing neither.
And so it goes.
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File this under ironic.
When I first moved in with Señora around 2012 in this St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield (population 49,703), there was a big discussion going on in the media about racial profiling, The city of Chesterfield was listed as one of the most egregious cities in Missouri for profiling of black drivers. A quick search on Google did not bring up any current articles, however. Chesterfield is 77% white, 13% Asian, and only 3.5% black. Hispanics are 2.9% and the rest vary.
Continuing through the pandemic until now, home deliveries of whatever has become and remains massively popular. There seems to be delivery vans constantly driving down our street.
The ironic part… the vast majority of the folks driving these vans are exactly the type of persons that the Chesterfield PD was accused of profiling a decade ago. Apparently it is okay if these folks are delivering your goodies and wearing a corporate uniform.
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As you surely know, the primary sensory input for canines is the sense of smell. Our particular canine, Princess Lily, has the common but troubling habit of rolling in whatever odoriferous substance she can find. This seems to be some sort of bold statement for dogs – here I am, I know you can smell me now.
Of course, this results in Señora giving The Wee Dog frequent baths. Lily tolerates these baths, but just barely. But she is so happy when they are over that she runs around the house crazily for five minutes. Señora being Señora, chases the ecstatic Lily and everyone is having a good time.
Thinking about this other day I came to the conclusion that if our precious little dog was human she would dress in wild, bold, colorful clothes that would generate jokes about needing sunglasses.
Loud smells, loud clothes, all in the same ballpark… smell me, look at me!
And so it goes
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I wonder if at the various universities and colleges that teach Internet technologies if there are special writing classes, perhaps in the Marketing Department under Internet.
There seems to a certain, very common style of article on many websites. There is a teaser headline that grabs your attention, so you open the article. You then start reading or perhaps scanning to through the article to find the tidbit that attracted you, but it is not readily apparent. So you scroll, and scroll some more trying to find it. As you do so you go past one advertisement after another. If you are exceedingly lucky you find the tidbit towards the end of the article, but it frequently has an O. Henry twist to it. Not uncommonly, however, there is nothing in article that relates to the teaser.
It is amazing what we humans are willing to do to other humans in the endeavor to extract money from them.
And so it should not go.
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I was doing yoga style stretches before launching into more vigorous, traditional exercises in our basement gymnasium area. As I was doing so my various joints were snapping,cracking and popping so loudly and so often that I thought I was consuming a bowl of Rice Krispies.