It’s Thursday afternoon and I am in my Hunker-Bunker overlooking the Puget Sound as the sun is about to set. I accidentally posted a draft that I started this morning, only to discover it when I got home from The Office. My intention was to post this crap this afternoon for tomorrow, and if there was any substantial change in world events, such as Israel nuking Gaza, then I could sneak it in here.
I am in the mood for some irregular news.
Six headlines that made me chuckle.
1. Muncie woman steals car from dealership to drive to exotic dancer interview in Indianapolis
2. Biden to push for government standards on AI
3. DeSantis issues order for rescue operations of Floridians in Israel
5. Harvard says its students’ pro-Palestinian letter does not speak for university
6. Fetterman: America ‘not sending their best and brightest’ to Congress
My Commentary on the above headlines
Remember, I haven’t read the articles, I am commenting based solely on what I read in the headline. Let’s see what I got right and wrong.
1. Why didn’t she just take it on a test drive? When I buy a car from a dealer, I drive the car for a day before I make a decision. You can actually do that. When I bought my last car, I had spent a week driving four different cars before I made a decision.
2. Okay, this joke almost writes itself.
3. This poor guy is trying so hard to be relevant. He’s trying so hard to out-Trump Trump himself and is just being a nuisance.
4. What a concept: a need for bipartisanship to get things DONE. This has been a major problem with Republicans — namely the “freedumb” caucus — for a long time. They are incapable of getting anything done for their constituents and the nation at large because they are deep into this purity thing where they will not pass any legislation unless everyone in the Republican Party is for it.
Democrats don’t have that problem. They will take a vote anywhere they can scrounge one up in order to further their agenda. This is how Congress is supposed to work. Republicans could pass legislation that furthers their agenda if only they were willing to reach across for votes. But they won’t
, and it has the ironic effect of … furthering the Democratic agenda. I have never seen a Party so eager to shoot itself in the foot. Over and over again.
5. One student group does not make up the entire population. Google says Harvard has “more than 450 student organizations focused on everything from politics and photography to dance and debate.” Two or more people make up a “group”. Harvard’s website says there are 25,266 undergraduate and graduate students this year. A hundred members of a Harvard student group saying or doing something provocative doesn’t mean that Harvard itself is involved. Kids can say and do the stupidest things at that age, whether they are in an ivy-league college or the junior college in town. The headline is nothing more than click-bait for the politically offended.
6. Ah, the best for last. When I first read the headline a few hours ago, I started laughing, and I haven’t stopped chuckling ever since. A sitting US Senator admits that we are voting idiotsticks and dumbshits into Congress. I am wondering if he is including himself in this equation.
I get a kick out of John Fetterman. He’s the guy you’d love to have a beer with. Probably fun to hang around with on an occasional weekend, but you wouldn’t want him deciding on actual issues that affect hundreds of millions of people.
Term limits is a great start.
Streaming Recommendation:
Apple TV is my platform this month. Silo was surprising for me. I am now wanting to see season two.
Imagine living in an underground silo that goes down 144 levels. It is a city of 10,000 people, who have no idea who built the silo, or what happened before 140 years ago. They cannot go outside because the gas is poisonous. But that doesn’t stop people from wanting to ‘go outside’. But if they utter the words, “I want to go outside,” then they WILL go outside and they will die.
There are ‘relics’ of the “pre-silo” days. A Pez stick is “illegal” and you could be sent outside to die. Relics are forbidden to have.
If you like dystopian science fiction, then this is the one for you.
The meme box funnies:
A Harvard Student:
You’ll want Sound ON.
And finally, in honor of the US House:
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