I'M NOT ON YOUR TEAM AND I'M DAMN SURE NOT PART OF YOUR FAMILY

I have been watching way too much tv.  John Prine once sang about"blowing up his tv".  I am more surprised that my tv has not just sat down in the room and decided he/she had had enough with how much he/she is being used.  The first ever sit down strike of a tv. I try to watch commercial free channels.  But sometimes, just sometimes, I watch a channel with commercials.  Every company, with the bucks to pay for ads, tells me I am on their team during this pandemic.  We are all in this together just like "health care professionals".  Or, we are all part of the same family.  No and no.  We are not on Team Toyota and, even if we were, the ER team is a real team working collaboratively.  The softer ads telling me that I am in their family are truly worse. Buying a new house from a specific realty company does not make me that company's nephew.  In both of these instances, and others, I am not on the team and have a real family.

--There is a thread (see:  I know electronic threads) that links the protesters carrying automatic weapons to the anti-vaxers to the anti-semites. Someone smarter than me needs to write something about it.  Meanwhile, I believe in its existence. Angry about any attempt to assert authority in order to address the better good. Let me bring that AK 47 into the State House.  And while I do that, I want my unvaccinated child to attend school.  But make sure there are no homosexuals or Jews in that building.  I am not paranoid bu I am scared.
--Saw a bit on the 538 website about all the polls that show Biden ahead (these are the same people who predicted a Clinton victory).  But people in those polls still say the Trumpster will win.  I believe both those things are true.  I am trying not to believe any of the polls and am deeply worried about November.
--BTW, these people hate us for all the usual reasons plus we live on the coast.
--When RBG was hospitalized last week, I needed to immediately get under the covers.
--The two main topics of conversation around here are what is for dinner in the next week and what is on tv tonight.  I think I forgot how to read.
--Saw Joe on some msnbc show.  He appeared with Stacy Abrams.  My final take on that was she should run for President.  Joe has trouble connecting sentences into a coherent thought.  I shutter to imagine Joe debating POTUS.
--I have come to like my Governor a lot.  His daily news briefings are terrific except for some of the most stupid media questions.  Hot topic this week (even as we prepare to re-open):  when will the golf courses open up?  Really?  It is not enough that you cannot pray at your house of worship. you also want to play golf? Pathetic.
--On 5/5, the Boston Pops zoomed a song written by John Williams.  He played the piano and Keith Lockhart led the virtual orchestra. I loved it.
--A Native American tribe in South Dakota (I believe they are a branch of the Cheyenne River Sioux) are blocking a state highway which goes through their reservation.  The Gov is upset,  The same
governor who did nothing in the face of the pandemic and its impact on employees at meat packing plants. Its all a hoax perpetrated by the deep state and the medica.
--Speaking of science, Deborah Brix seems to have an unlimited supply of scarves.  Her career is in serious jeopardy after sh explained how hair salons in Georgia could work with customers from a 6 foot distance. Only Edward Scissorhands could do that.
--The White House rejected the first draft of the CDC report which focused on how states can safely re-open. Science denial is also on their agenda unless it affects them personally.  All government is bad unless I need something like a bailout.
--Did anyone see Rand Paul try to to outsmart Fauci?  He did not succeed but oh my--Rand is a physician who does not believe in science.
--A reminder to Mitch:  There was a nearly 70 page report left by the Obama administration.  So you lied.

--A remembrance.  DP would not play cards with me until I stopped cheating.  I will never forget that.  Seems like a minor issue but it has stuck with me.  RIP.

Shalom