Sunday, April 15, 2018
"OF COURSE WE SERVE CRABS. IN FACT, WE SERVE ANY0NE".
HAH. A great ad for Legal Seafood. Kind of right up my alley.
Moving on to some matters of import if only to me:
--A great visual of what is so enriching about the place I live. At a mall in Cambridge (home as you know of the world's greatest university). It is a Saturday night and the mall is bustling and buzzing and I am the oldest person by a good ten years. It is a United Nations of people mostly older adolescents all bopping around with bags and packages and having a great time in THIS COUNTRY AND NOT IN WHATEVER WAR TORN COUNTRY THEY CAME FROM.
--Second visual. This also in a mall and, as I write that, i wonder why I have been in two of these fucking malls in the last ten days--yikes. Two young adolescent girls with long flowing dresses and wearing hajibs. Accompanied by an older gentleman who I presume to be their father. Buying athletic gear (I believe lacrosse stuff). Could not do that wherever they came from.
--I wil just say it: WE ARE A BETTER PLACE WHEN WE LIVE WITH THOSE "OTHERS".
--The city of Boston just approved kind of like an excise tax the proceeds of which will go to culture, the arts, and the environment. it is based on your income and the value of your property (I think!!) I thought it was a great idea since it could not be used, as an example, for salary increases. But then the lunatics came out of their nice little homes with their nice little proposals. One of which is something along the lines of the following: use the dollars to creates a food forest for pollinators. Umm/hmmm. There are people who want to use the money so bees can make honey--I think thats what this means. EEEEK, get the butterfly net out and not for the bees.
--A while back one of those talking heads on MSNBC casually mentioned that this Stormy Daniels business might turn out to be more damaging than the Russian business. I'm starting to believe. Would you hire Michael Cohen to be your lawyer?
--Pruitt is doing exactly what the boss wants done in terms of anti environmental action. He may never get fired but even if he does, he has already done some serious damage. They are so intent on undoing what Obama and his crew did.
--The Globe continues to barrage us with animal stories and stories about the Pope. They may have no foreign correspondents but they obviously have a full timer working on animal issues and another working on issues related to the Catholic Church.
--Culture tip 1: Watch the Chris Rock concert on Netflix called "Tambourine". Hysterical while also dealing with issues of race as a black father.
--Culture tip 2: The NY Times magazine of 4/8 has two great articles. One about the boys basketball team on a reservation in Montana. The second by and about a gun owner who is thoughtful and not a robot for the NRA.
--Our bags are not packed but we are ready to go across the pond hoping to see the royals. Taking a close relative.
SPORTS TALK
Both the Bruins and the Celtics are a joy to watch. However, the upside for the Bruins is much higher and the NHL has no equivalent team like the Warriors. Get your parade gear ready. I wish Gronk would just go ahead and make movies--screw him.
Cheerio
Sunday, April 1, 2018
IS IT NOVEMBER YET?
I guess not. POTUS continues to fire people and depend even more on amateurs to run our government. If I knew he would appoint a doctor with no management experience to run the VA, I would have referred my primary care doc. Or, better yet for me (which is what this is all about), I would have referred myself since I have more management experience than his personal physician. Being universally well liked is NOT a qualification. Moving on.
--The Easter message to us was that DACA will not be extended and the wall will be built. Mexico is a bad country and there is a caravan of immigrants on their way here. I locked my front door immediately. How the religious right/evangelicals continue to give this guy a free pass is beyond me. All I can get is that they are wishing for another vacancy on the Supreme Court.
--Remember Governor Maddox of Georgia who swung ax handles at people of color? Remember George Wallace who tapped into the racist instincts of Northerners including those in this state. This is what POTUS brings to mind as he goes to Ohio and lashes out at all of the "others". We repeat the past at our own peril.
--I can no longer listen to the excuses of Republicans in Congress--or, worse yet, their silence. They continue on their gutless wandering.
--Never liked Ted Nugent's music and never listed to Laura Ingraham. So vindictive as if they had relatives on the Mayflower.
--It is worth noting that the ugly Easter tweets came from Mar A Lago where POTUS is accompanied by Stephen Miller a member of my tribe who might be the worst of the group still left.
--It is beyond dangerous to have Miller and John Bolton in the White House advising a POTUS who is child like in his inability to read let alone comprehend.
-- The Austin bombs hit home being as how a close relative of mine lives there. I think a lot of "unstable" people have been unleashed by Presidential rhetoric. Did you see the crowd in Ohio cheering him on? He is, to be fair, delivering a message that is hitting the same chord as the one George Wallace hit.
--On a cultural note, I am heading off to the newly opened dog museum in North Adams. Seriously--there is such a place and it was a big story in the Globe.
--On the big time crowded (and very famous) 39 bus the other day and was treated to overhearing a young woman screeching into her phone for the whole ride. It is a kind of cultural arrogance that I detest. I guess it was her bus after all.
--Happy Easter and Happy Passover. I'm already sick of matzah.
SPORTS TALK
I am not optimistic about my Wolverines tomorrow night. Villanova shoots so well, I am not sure how you can stop them. Never figured them as a final four in my brackets--did have both Kansas and Villanova. And if any of ;you had Loyola, you must ben related to the Sister who is their chaplain. No baseball talk until 7/4 but I am loving the Bruins.
Shalom
--The Easter message to us was that DACA will not be extended and the wall will be built. Mexico is a bad country and there is a caravan of immigrants on their way here. I locked my front door immediately. How the religious right/evangelicals continue to give this guy a free pass is beyond me. All I can get is that they are wishing for another vacancy on the Supreme Court.
--Remember Governor Maddox of Georgia who swung ax handles at people of color? Remember George Wallace who tapped into the racist instincts of Northerners including those in this state. This is what POTUS brings to mind as he goes to Ohio and lashes out at all of the "others". We repeat the past at our own peril.
--I can no longer listen to the excuses of Republicans in Congress--or, worse yet, their silence. They continue on their gutless wandering.
--Never liked Ted Nugent's music and never listed to Laura Ingraham. So vindictive as if they had relatives on the Mayflower.
--It is worth noting that the ugly Easter tweets came from Mar A Lago where POTUS is accompanied by Stephen Miller a member of my tribe who might be the worst of the group still left.
--It is beyond dangerous to have Miller and John Bolton in the White House advising a POTUS who is child like in his inability to read let alone comprehend.
-- The Austin bombs hit home being as how a close relative of mine lives there. I think a lot of "unstable" people have been unleashed by Presidential rhetoric. Did you see the crowd in Ohio cheering him on? He is, to be fair, delivering a message that is hitting the same chord as the one George Wallace hit.
--On a cultural note, I am heading off to the newly opened dog museum in North Adams. Seriously--there is such a place and it was a big story in the Globe.
--On the big time crowded (and very famous) 39 bus the other day and was treated to overhearing a young woman screeching into her phone for the whole ride. It is a kind of cultural arrogance that I detest. I guess it was her bus after all.
--Happy Easter and Happy Passover. I'm already sick of matzah.
SPORTS TALK
I am not optimistic about my Wolverines tomorrow night. Villanova shoots so well, I am not sure how you can stop them. Never figured them as a final four in my brackets--did have both Kansas and Villanova. And if any of ;you had Loyola, you must ben related to the Sister who is their chaplain. No baseball talk until 7/4 but I am loving the Bruins.
Shalom
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