Hey, I’m finally coming up for air and ready to resume writing something on WordPress. Hell, I pay to have an active account, so let me make use of that expenditure by posting for the first time since February 10. My absence should be excusable since–let’s face it–nothing whatsoever new has happened anywhere worth opining about since back three months ago.

Oh, the season has changed from winter to spring. But otherwise the constant remains the same: the earth still rotates around the sun. Water still boils at 212 degrees F. Paper burns at 451 F. Bears still shit in the woods. See? Am I right or what? Okay, but that’s the natural world. In the unnatural world, however, things have changed completely. The Ukraine/Russian conflict has ended. What? It hasn’t? Really? Two years plus now? Well, at least the former criminal President of these United States has been convicted and is in a maximum security prison serving life with no parole, right? Huh? No? What? He instigated the attempted insurrection over three years ago, right? And he still hasn’t spent a single day behind bars?! That makes no sense. I can’t even beat a parking ticket!

Well, certainly, our current administration has cut off funding a clear case of genocide in Palestine. Huh? Right? What?! Out tax dollars are still paying for the weapons that kill innocent women and children? What. The. Fuck? What’s that you say, U.S. universities have seen large demonstrations by their students demanding a ceasefire to save lives. Hey, that’s great, huh? What? The police have been using rubber bullets and night sticks on them? Doesn’t the 1st Amendment give the public the right of assembly to voice their grievances? It does but still the cops are giving them the bum’s rush, along with maybe a night stick to the skull? Geeze, I thought for sure things would be better after my three months in a news cycle coma. Bummer.

Well, certainly the current administration has unleased its Justice Department on the fascist tactics in so-called Red States. You know, gerrymandering, voter suppression, draconian anti-choice laws that threaten to force a woman to be on the verge of death in order to end a toxic pregnancy. Or jailing a woman who has a miscarriage. What? The fascists just keep passing fascist laws and the current administration does nothing about it? What’s that? Oh, right. The current administration ( isn’t it suppose to be the opposition party?) is the one supporting that genocide. Ugh. I figured in my 90 day snooze that the moral compass would kick in with the current powers that be.

Hmmm. Well all of this same ol same ol shit will be settled with the election in six months, right? I mean that’s why we have elections, is it not, so the voice of the people can be heard? Just like in 2020, when We the People chose the current President to replace the insurrectionist that still hasn’t gone to jail. And that 2020 winner has stood up for democracy and…wait again: the current guy is the same guy who supports the genocide, and whose Attorney General does jack shit about the guy who tried to stage a coup. And current guy wants four more years? And the guy who the current Attorney General won’t put in jail is somehow being allowed to run for the same office again??!! Am I in The Twilight Zone?

Geeze. Isn’t there any change for the good in the last three months? Please tell me that at least the Atomic Clock has been turned back by 10 minutes or so. No? It still is 90 seconds to midnight? As close to global thermonuclear war as ever then, right? Well, if we all get vaporized it would kind of make sense. We humans are one crazy species. We make such terribly wrong choices. And when at least some of the fed up protest they get riot police sigged on them. Can’t any of these public figures be held to account?

At the least, can we cancel those Kardashians? I suppose not. Well, maybe I’ll have something to cheer about before long. In the meantime, keep the faith and know that The Rolling Stones are still touring. Still touring! Sponsored by AARP. The more things change…