Links for whatever online time it takes to make a total of 24 hours, starting in the evening of 12.8.25. I was online earlier in the afternoon, but not link hunting. Probably 12 8.25 and 12.9.25...one link, one rant.
Animals
Many towns held Christmas Parades over the weekend. In Gatlinburg, the parade was crashed by one of the live black bears tourists are encouraged to photograph from inside cars and buy little likenesses of as souvenirs.
A suggestion: To keep bears wild, shoot the ones that infest Gatlinburg. Anyone who thinks those bears aren't already familiar with humans, or don't already see humans as a source of food, is delusional. The bears merely know that one of the main things humans in Gatlinburg do is prepare other foodstuffs all of which taste better, to a bear, than humans do. Eventually they'll get too hungry to wait for their favorite snacks. A bear humans can see roaming around is already telling us it needs to be a rug.
Politics
Why do so many writers sound like Democrats? Considering the possibilities...
(a) that was the way our friends were voting the first time we voted, and we've stuck to it, because we are profoundly conservative by nature and don't want to think about change. (Seriously? Writers?)
(b) that's the way our sponsors and editors vote. (This is probable, in the case of writers who are generously sponsored and published by corporations that still pay human editors. But they are only a small minority of the writer demographic.)
(c) that's the way the local criminal gangs vote, and a lot of writers are living in shabby neighborhoods with no security to speak of. (This is also possible. Today's Ds, or Democratic Socialists, have certainly dropped the old Democratic Party's focus on workers in favor of an appeal to criminal gangs.)
(d) these writers think they're going to get some sort of benefit from the Democratic Socialists. (Do writers look stupid? Well, some, maybe, but that's probably their computers.)
(e) they sometimes feel blocked, and for writers who identify as Ds this is not a problem. All they have to do is express hostility toward Trump. Trump's having attention cravings the size of Alaska makes this dead easy. Trump may be trying to develop Christian spirituality but he's still doing things like telling the visiting leaders of nations where English is the primary language, but it's spoken with a different sort of accent, how good their English is and asking where they were educated. It is not necessary for US citizens to have known, before the TV news readers told them, where the visitor's country is located or that its primary language is English, to feel embarrassed by Trump's lack of information. Nobody's paying us to know these things but we are paying Trump to know them, bleepit! So all a blocked writer has to do is type "I feel embarrassed by President Trump," and all the Ds will start nodding in a sympathetic rhythm, which has a way of breaking up writer's block.
I think (e) is probably the best explanation.
Which means that no matter how much rich Ds wail about the terrible tariffs keeping their Swiss chocolates expensive, writers are likely to have noticed that the price of eggs has dropped back within sight of normalcy. If the Trump Administration manages to sustain policies that bring the price of a bunch of bananas, a loaf of bread, a five-pound sack of corn meal, a pound of baloney, and those packets of candy and chips they always display at the checkout counter, back under $1.00, the Democratic Socialists may admit--as Barbara Ehrenreich commendably put it--that they are a religious group who place blind faith in something that can't be proved by scientific observation, and leave peaceably as reasonable people usher them out of the Democratic Party.
Join us, Ds, and help to speed the day.
Type, as a morning exercise, "I felt embarrassed by President Biden when..." or "Kamala Harris made me cringe when..." or "Gavin Newsom annoys me when..."
Or, if your religion has a rule against "evil speaking" and you want to take it seriously, try: "One of the things I like best about Michelle Obama is...,"and you can expand on any of her accomplishments, such as writing a book, toning her upper arms, wearing sawed-off cardigans well, aging beautifully, or protecting the privacy of her charming daughters, "but she's not presidential timber."
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