Send In The Clowns

Welcome friends!

I read one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time the other day so I thought  I might as well share it this time out.  I’ve been so heavy and serious lately I feel it’s high time I lightened up a bit.  The piece was about how most people here in the US feel the current Congress is the worst in their lifetimes.  Wait, that’s not the funny part.  The funny part is that voters have apparently determined to address this thorny issue by voting in additional Republicans thus allowing them to gain control of both the House and Senate.  It’s funny because the obvious and direct cause of most of the dysfunction in Congress over the past several years has been the Republican Party itself, so one can’t help but wonder how these voters are connecting the dots if, indeed, they perceive any dots at all and have any interest in connecting them.  Really, I want to know how voting in additional Republicans will render Congress more functional.  Do you know?

I’ve probably mentioned before, but I might as well review.  I think there are two primary features of the current Republican Party that make it the mighty engine of dysfunction that it has become... Sorry but only selected archived (previous year) posts are currently available full text on this website.  All posts including this one are available in my annual anthology ebook series available at the Amazon Kindle Bookstore for a nominal fee.  Hey, we all need to make a buck somehow, right?  If you find my timeless jewels of wisdom amusing or perhaps even amusingly irritating throw me a bone now and then.  Thank you my friends!

Beauty and the Beast

Welcome friends!

I just remembered a newspaper article that caught my eye a few weeks ago so let me say a few words about that before I forget about it.  It was somewhat interesting to me because it brought to mind that vexed nexus of the beautiful and the good, or the bad, as the case may be.  You know, beauty is truth, truth beauty, and all that rot.  Plus it involved guns.  And you know how Americans love guns.

So let’s first just do a quick summary of the article.  It appears a certain minor television actress named Shannon Richardson from the great state of Texas (where else?) was recently sentenced to eighteen years in prison for sending letters contaminated with the deadly poison ricin to the President of the US, the then mayor of NCY Michael Bloomberg, and the then director of an organization called Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Mark Glaze.  The text of the letters set forth Ms. Richardson’s thoughts on the thorny issue of gun control:  “You will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns.  The right to bear arms is my constitutional God-given right.  What’s in this letter is nothing compared to what I’ve got planned for you.”... Sorry but only selected archived (previous year) posts are currently available full text on this website.  All posts including this one are available in my annual anthology ebook series available at the Amazon Kindle Bookstore for a nominal fee.  Hey, we all need to make a buck somehow, right?  If you find my timeless jewels of wisdom amusing or perhaps even amusingly irritating throw me a bone now and then.  Thank you my friends!