Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #9,369
yeah I know you did not ask!
I’m a golfer. Like every other golfer I know I have a love / hate relationship with the game. It is the nature of the sport. Round to round it is never the same. About the time you have a glimmer of hope that you can play the game, the golf gods whack you up side the head and laughingly and not kindly say, “Silly mortal, you should know better!”
All that aside, there are a dumpster full of reasons of why I hate Gospodin Trump, but towards the top of that list is that he has made golfers and golf look so very bad. There is a time and place for everything… except, apparently if you are this POS POTUS.
Dollars are votes for Fox News
Fox News at one level is simply a symptom of the disease overtaking our country. At a different level they are aggravating and are part of the etiology of this malady. The malady is ultra conservatism. The malady is aggrandizing of Trump, unfettered capitalism, racism and pseudo-religious values. The malady is the denigration of immigrants, other religions, people of color, people that do not fit into the Norman Rockwell Continue reading “Dollars are votes for Fox News”
Trump’s Coronavirus Pandemic Timeline
Dec 18th – House Impeaches Trump
Jan 8th – First CDC warning
Jan 9th – Trump campaign rally
Jan 14th – Trump campaign rally
Jan 16th – House sends impeachment articles to Senate
Jan 18th – Trump golfs
Jan 19th – Trump golfs
Jan- 20th first case in South Korea
Jan 20th – first case of corona virus in the US, Washington State. Continue reading “Trump’s Coronavirus Pandemic Timeline”
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #2,228
yeah I know you did not ask!
If you have been watching any TV lately you may have noticed there are a plethora of ads promoting how much various companies care about us in these troubling times. They are touting how they have been here for us, are here for us now, will be there for us after the crisis has passed.
If they really care about us and this country they can do two things right now that would have a huge impact on the quality of life in this country.
First, they can stop advertising on Fox News. This network’s goal is to push America to the absolute lowest common denominator. They seem to be succeeding extraordinarily well at this. Fox News is without question a propaganda machine that does not have the best interest of this country at heart.
Secondly, the companies and the executives of these corporations should stop immediately giving money to the GOP. I cannot figure out if the goal of the GOP is the elimination of our democracy or the creation of a Corpocracy, Well…actually it is both.
Barring these corporations suddenly finding a moral compass, perhaps we should stop doing business with any company that advertises on Fox News.
Yeah, I know, I’m dreaming again.
Word of the Day – Solipsism
- Noun: Solipsism
- a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing also
- extreme egocentrism
- Synonyms:
- egoism
- self-containment
- subjectivity
- egocentricity
- ipseity
- narcissism
- self-absorption
- self-reliance
- autonomy
- Usage:
- “But what has taken me by surprise and torn me up inside are the aloofness, arrogance, pettiness, meanness, narcissism and solipsism that persist in Trump — that flourish in him — even during a once-in-a-lifetime emergency that demands something nobler. Under normal circumstances, these traits are galling. Under the current ones, they’re gutting.”
- Encountered:
- New York Times editorial –Has Anyone Found Trump’s Soul? Anyone?
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Bill Maher — Worst Responder
Amen… we need to vote them out.
I’ve become Melvin Udall
If you remember the 1997 movie, As Good As It Gets, you might remember who Melvin Udall is. He is an OCD misanthropic author, played by Jack Nicholson. Melvin had several compulsive behaviors in the movie including excessive hand washing.
I’ve always been a bit of a hand washer. This habit is partly for good reasons, and partly because of some kink in a neuron somewhere in Continue reading “I’ve become Melvin Udall”
Caught the tip in my zipper
Let me preface this little piece with the caveat that you may need to be a man of a well experienced age to fully appreciate it… or perhaps to relate to it.
Yesterday I was part of the problem. I was not practicing social distancing by staying at home. I had to go out to a couple stores for what were, only by stretching it a far piece, necessities. I was out of vodka so I needed to hit the liquor store, and I wanted to buy some paint. My ADHD wife is getting a wee Continue reading “Caught the tip in my zipper”
Quote for the Day — Mahatma Gandhi
“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” ~~ Mahatma Gandhi
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