In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner the apparently spelling-challenged poet Samuel Coleridge Taylor tells the story of a sailor who shoots an albatross with a crossbow and I never found out exactly why he did that because it’s the longest poem Taylor ever wrote and if a poem won’t fit on a birthday card I consider it too much work to read unless it starts out:
I always learn something when reading your column, Lee. Today I learned a new word - “asshat”. I thought you had misspelled “asshole” until I looked it up. It’s gonna be a good day!
For starters, I honestly don’t expect the Republican Party to regain control of the White House and fully expect them to lose congress so badly we end up with supermajorities of Democrats in both houses. Republicans fit the classic definition of insanity. They lost midterms when Trump was president, they lost the election in 2020, and, for all intents & purposes, they lost the midterms in 2022. They laughingly think Trump is the problem and getting rid of him will fix everything, but their REAL problem is MAGA is odious to a substantive majority of Americans and since all they’ve done from 2018 on is DOUBLE DOWN on the crazy bullshit they’re going to continue to lose. The only real problem is the violence their stupefied cultists will commit after the next loss - it will be off the scale.
Florida is a sewer state and is one of several I will no longer set foot in. I no longer give my business to any state that inflicts MAGA dolts on the country, which makes living in Missouri a problem, but I can’t afford to move. I turned down a FREE trip to Disney world because of DeSantis and his vile behavior.
It’s bizarre when you find yourself pining for a return to the run-of-the-mill insanity that was the GOP in the days of Bush & his predecessors.
I thought the same as you about the Dems winning big, but what about Cornel West and his Democratic Socialist Party? Might he take enough votes from Biden that Trump could win? I'm worried.
You had me in such a mid-80s frame of mind with your MacGyver references, that I was fully expecting a punch line after you mentioned voting for the Fall Guy. : )
I always learn something when reading your column, Lee. Today I learned a new word - “asshat”. I thought you had misspelled “asshole” until I looked it up. It’s gonna be a good day!
Doug, I'm happy to expand your vocabulary of profanity.
So much to comment on here.
For starters, I honestly don’t expect the Republican Party to regain control of the White House and fully expect them to lose congress so badly we end up with supermajorities of Democrats in both houses. Republicans fit the classic definition of insanity. They lost midterms when Trump was president, they lost the election in 2020, and, for all intents & purposes, they lost the midterms in 2022. They laughingly think Trump is the problem and getting rid of him will fix everything, but their REAL problem is MAGA is odious to a substantive majority of Americans and since all they’ve done from 2018 on is DOUBLE DOWN on the crazy bullshit they’re going to continue to lose. The only real problem is the violence their stupefied cultists will commit after the next loss - it will be off the scale.
Florida is a sewer state and is one of several I will no longer set foot in. I no longer give my business to any state that inflicts MAGA dolts on the country, which makes living in Missouri a problem, but I can’t afford to move. I turned down a FREE trip to Disney world because of DeSantis and his vile behavior.
It’s bizarre when you find yourself pining for a return to the run-of-the-mill insanity that was the GOP in the days of Bush & his predecessors.
I gotta admit Dubya seems pretty reasonable compared to the current crowd.
I thought the same as you about the Dems winning big, but what about Cornel West and his Democratic Socialist Party? Might he take enough votes from Biden that Trump could win? I'm worried.
Thank You, Mr. Judge. You keep me from losing what little mind I have LEFT!
You're welcome.
You had me in such a mid-80s frame of mind with your MacGyver references, that I was fully expecting a punch line after you mentioned voting for the Fall Guy. : )
Yeah, that might have been an overly-obscure reference.
This was the climax: "...Hall & Oates comparing themselves to the Beatles and then falling off the charts."
I was laughing so hard, I almost killed my laptop.
Glad I made you laugh that hard and I hope your laptop is OK.
“Becalmed” FTW
It's a word you don't hear often enough, like: "I wish those Proud Boys would becalm."