Monthly Archives: January 2021

01/15/21

Words Do NOT Matter

Bit of clickbait in that title, but allow me to translate. Of late, we are struggling with words to describe disturbances in both the Force and in the public square. To take the suspense out of it — I condemn both of them.

Allow me to compare two different happenstances:

 1. The “peaceful protests” of BLM/Antifa on the West Coast and Upper Midwest this summer after the George Floyd trigger; and,

BLM/Antifa peaceful protest, rally in Minneapolis in 2020. NOT A RIOT. Do not get too close to those peaceful flames.

 2. The post-election “not so peaceful protests” at the Capitol last week.

They are decidedly different, no?

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01/15/21

The White Underbelly Of Work From Home — WFH

As we begin to contemplate a post-Pandemic world the air is awash with musings as to how WFH is going to become the new normal (God, I hate that phrase). There is no doubt that we have all discovered some interesting things about how we can or cannot work from home.

Please know that in comparison to the rest of the world, the American worker works longer hours than any competitor country. Whenever I recite that figure, I wonder how we are including the Chinese.

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01/13/21

Drive By Impeachment

Today, the 44th day of December 2020, the House of Representatives, led by the 80-year-0ld, newly re-elected, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, is conducting a drive by impeachment of the POTUS Donald J Trump.

“We couldn’t get COVID relief done in 8 months (wink, wink), but we can get impeachment done in a week, right?”

We are seven days from the inauguration of Joe Biden as POTUS whereafter the healing and the uniting will begin in earnest.

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01/13/21

Blizzard of 2021 Austin By God Texas

We had a blizzard this week. It was gigantic and it was threatening. We were snowed in.

We had massive drifts of snow triggering harsh reactions.

Today, it is 60F +/- and winter is over for the year.

But, it was Hell on wheels whilst it lasted.

But, hey, what Hell do I really snow anyway? I’m just a Big Red Car — brrrrrr!

car

01/12/21

Walmart — Your Friendly Banker?

Comes now the news that Walmart is going into the banking business in partnership with a FinTech VC firm, Ribbit Capital.Actually, they are developing a new co-owned startup. Remember that detail — a “startup.”

This is so hot they haven’t even announced a name or a launch date, but for some reason they wanted you to know about it. Now.

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01/9/21

The Martyrdom of Donald J Trump

The United States survived a sacking of its Capitol for only the second time in its history, the last being 24 August 1814 orchestrated by Irish-born, British Major General Robert Ross who put a torch to the buildings of the US government and its military including the Capitol, the Presidential Mansion (we would call it the White House today), and a great number of other buildings.

His role in that victory was highly celebrated though he himself would be killed by American sharpshooters in the Battle of Baltimore. Karma is a bitch and should be.

The Burning of Washington painted by Paul de Thoyras

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01/5/21

Things I Don’t Care About

I saw something over on that Facebooger place some time ago and it motivated me to consider what things I don’t care about. Here they are — well, just ten:

 1. The opinions of actors and celebrities — I don’t care WTF you think about anything. Sorry. Most of y’all have deficient high school educations. Why would I care? Sorry. I don’t care.

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01/1/21

Predictions Year 2021

This last year, 2020, has been a bitch. What will the next year hold? Here they come — predictions 2021!

Pandemic

Here is what will happen with the Pandemic in 2021:

 1. The Pandemic will be in the rear view mirror by the end of June 2021 meaning those who want a shot of vaccine will have had one.

Dr. Fauci will start to wear Dr. Birx’s scarves to work.

We will all get vaccine ID tattoos or piercings, but there will be no Voter ID card. No, sir.

 2. It will be revealed that China made the damn virus stuff — no baloney about bats in seafood markets —  in a lab and it got away from them. Haha. No, really. It was an “accident,” not a field exercise.

Chinese President-for-Life Xi, at the United Nations annual meeting, says, “Ooops!” Everybody laughs whilst he shrugs his shoulders, cocks his head to the left, raises his eyebrows, extends his hands palms up, and looks sheepish for eight full seconds.

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