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The Other Side

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     Don't worry, this is not going to be another salt-in-the-wound post about the blue wave that flowed over the country with the midterms.  By now, you've probably read or heard enough about people voting their dissatisfaction and hoping for some sort of change or relief (and the results were indeed a relief to many).  But no, this will be about something completely different.  And if it may seem that this post may occasionally be all over the place, swirling as randomly as a gust of wind, it probably is, mirroring the thoughts in my head.  Yesterday we put our cat to sleep.  He was the one who was such a snuggle-bug and a love-bug that we named him Bugsy (actually, he got his name because he was rescued from a dumping area behind an apartment, one which was filled with what we think were straw-itch bugs,* the worst sort of no-see-ums ever).  Bugsy's nose cancer had come back after six years of being relatively dormant and his breat...
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My Baby's Got Me Locked Up in Change

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      Those of you who may have read a few of these posts recognize that I try to change them every 7 to 10 days.  But the post before this on voting was gathering more views than I expected, day after day, which gave me hope that people were indeed coming together, realizing that the election may have been the chance to unite, to affect change, and to take on the growing technocrats and elite billionaires and politicians who feel untouchable, at least by "we the people."  So I delayed a bit in taking it down.  But this also gave me a breather, a chance to stockpile a few additional posts so that I could spend more time with my wife and my animals; to sit with my probably-bored dog who can't use his back legs and yet who feels more for me, realizing that he has to be lifted and guided outside to do his business, and frustrated that he now can't fully control his bladder; to take care of our hospice cat who nose has now been more than half-eaten away by his ...
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The Vote

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     You're sick of it, I know.  The endless ads, the robocalls, the AI-generated images by wanna-be influencers nestled in basements, the state-run hackers.  But this midterm election, on track to be the most expensive midterm in US history , is important for one key reason...nuclear weapons.  If you haven't already heard (even Congress hasn't been notified), Trump is in secret talks with the Pentagon to lower the threshold of nuclear use so that he could possibly (and probably) use smaller nukes against Iran, a war he both started and now sees no way to win, other than by using nuclear weapons.  Here's what the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists wrote: A new nuclear policy is taking shape in secret, crafted by a small group of Pentagon officials, that will give President Donald Trump more ways to start a nuclear war.  Little is known about the strategic nuclear review now under way in the Trump administration, but officials’ comments suggest that ...
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Honor

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     What a word, that.  It's everywhere, if you think about it: love, honor, and obey; his honor; medal of honor.  And yet, today's world seems to be taking more and more luster away from that word's meaning.  Think of how many times you've heard that introduction in Washington: ... the honorable blah-blah.  Really?  Be it a president or a Congressional rep or a justice, how much weight do you put into that "honor" part these days, especially when little qualification is needed for each position.  Basically one has to ask, what makes a politician "honorable?"  Or an ambassador.  Or a cabinet posting?  One only has to read through today's donor/loyal appointees and wonder, what makes them qualified.  And while earlier posts have brought up the topic of coroners and morticians (which is how Dr. Vincent di Maio made his living, so to speak), ghostwriter Ron Franscell noted that little to no training is required to be a ...
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