Curmudgeon Alley

2020/05/02

Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #5,021

yeah I know you did not ask!

Worst band of all eternity…

Wait for it…

Donald Trump and The Deplorables!

2020/05/012020/05/03

USA is pitied

Note: For the most part, even though I am the home of “The Little Known Blogger” with a minimal readership, I try to honor intellectual property rights. A friend sent me this opinion piece from the Irish Times. I could not find a link to it that was not behind a pay wall. Because I found this oped so spot on until such time…

Irish Times
April 25, 2020
By Fintan O’Toole
Editorial

THE WORLD HAS LOVED, HATED AND ENVIED THE U.S. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE PITY IT

Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity. Continue reading “USA is pitied”

2020/05/012020/05/02

Coranavirus masks as a political statement

I’ve been saying for 2 or 3 weeks now that not wearing masks and gloves in public was a political statement by many of those folks.

Here is an article that says the same thing: Wearing a mask is for smug liberals. Refusing to is for reckless Republicans.

From the article:

For progressives, masks have become a sign that you take the pandemic seriously and are willing to make a personal sacrifice to save lives. Prominent people who don’t wear them are shamed and dragged on Twitter by lefty accounts. On the right, where the mask is often seen as the symbol of a purported overreaction to the coronavirus, mask promotion is a target of ridicule, a sign that in a deeply polarized America almost anything can be politicized and turned into a token of tribal affiliation.

2020/04/292020/04/29

Word of the Day – Philoprogenitiveness

Noun: Philoprogenitiveness
Adjective: Philoprogenitive
1. tending to produce offspring : prolific
2. of, relating to, or characterized by love of offspring
Synonyms:
1. Profilic
2. Fructuous
3. Fertile
4. Fruitful
Usage:
1. “Philoprogenitiveness, says we, is strong in semi-rural communities; therefore, and for other reasons, a kidnapping project ought to be better there than in the radius of newspapers that send reporters out in plain clothes to stir up talk about such things.”
Encountered:
1. While reading O. Henry’s short story, The Ransom of Red Chief

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2020/04/292022/09/19

God Bless Costco

Missouri is opening for business May 4th. Whether this is a good idea or not , will be seen. I am not sure what St. Louis County will do as we have been the worst hit county and city in the state. I’m unclear if they even have the option of going against what our wonderful Republican governor dictates.

I received an advertising email this morning from Costco. Maybe they have been sending them out during the quarantine, but this is the first one I remember receiving in a while. In it they detailed their guidelines Continue reading “God Bless Costco”

2020/04/27

Bill Gates, Wuhan, COVID-19

This is how truly nutty the world of conspiracy theories is.

I study Spanish via Skype with several different individuals that live mostly in Central America and northern South America. I’ve never researched how much business China does in Latin America, but according to these folks Chinese products are huge there, especially technology items. Consequently, due to the business connections of Continue reading “Bill Gates, Wuhan, COVID-19”

2020/04/25

Different point of view on lock down

I’m not really a big fan of Bill Maher, but here is an interesting point of view on the lock down from a public health doctor.

2020/04/232020/04/23

I Finished a Task Started in Childhood

I had a very brief and exceedingly undistinguished career in the Boy Scouts of America. I am going to attribute the briefness to the frequency to which my family moved due to the nature of my father’s work. I started the Boy Scouts in Toms River, New Jersey. I do not remember much about that experience except we met in the basement of a church of some Protestant denomination. I remember learning the Scout salute, handshake and some knots.