Wayward Landlubber

There's something wrong with Republicans. A mind-worm maybe, or a dimming of intellect. I can't begin to guess the cause, but such behavior is well-represented in the realm of Maga, and undetected by the non-maga corpse of the Republican party. How, for Instance can a preening woman who shot her dog for not being sufficiently obedient, and then shot her goat for the period on the point of the exclamation mark, be appointed to any public position, let alone an office where such fraught language as Homeland Security is used. In what alternate universe can a woman be appointed Director of National Security, when she had been investigated and not cleared, by the FBI as a national security threat. That woman is Tulsi Gabbard, washed in the cleansing waters of maga-dom. And how do you explain Steven Miller, Trump's Reichsmarshall. He is a ripe  pustule of fascism, ready for Dr Pimple-popper. There are more, there's not enough time.  Indulging in speculation, which I am often ...

Too many years ago I was transitioning from a 9th-grader in middle school, to a Sophomore in high school. It is a cruel turn-about, from the status of the oldest class in middle school to the youngest of the high school rankings, all while acne and hormones are raging. Across Highway 214 from high school, however  Was Burkes Big Wheel, for soft  ice cream, a block from there was Smith's Corner Grocery. The convenience store of today, 7-Eleven and Plaid Pantry, did not arrive until the late 1970s. To call it a corner grocery was an exaggeration. It did sell cigarettes and candy. The Smiths had a son in his mid-20's. He was male because that was the only option he had. Some of us called him a 'morphadite', a mis-application of hermahrodite, which people 1000's of years before our time, new more about than Republicans today. As time progressed gays and lesbians were finally allowed legal humanity. Transgenders have not yet achieved that status. In June of 2024, I becam...