I have nothing to write about. No, that’s obviously not
true; there’s a lot to chronicle, I’m simply not interested. There’s not much
happening in my life save that I’m getting older and my body is beginning to
show it and act it out.
The daily news seems to repeat itself. We’re about to get
involved in another conflict with a bunch of barbarians whose concept of
freedom of religion comes from the end of a Kalashnikov, but even the
atrocities committed by bloodthirsty morons and oh-so-quickly aired to our
general outrage fail to elicit more than a flicker of my attention.
The former governor of Virginia and his wife have just been
convicted of corruption, but it seems to me they weren’t really smart enough to
defraud anyone, so I’d say they should be convicted of utter idiocy and terminal
sleaziness. As I followed the story, what struck me was that this guy—this couple—was
amazingly stupid. They bought high-priced real-estate when everyone knew the bubble was going to burst. They got into debt.
They accepted gifts from a dodgy entrepreneur, and they thought they’d get away
with it. Plus, of course, they ran the state of Virginia. The defense used by attorneys
was that the governor’s marriage was failing, he and she hardly spoke to each
other anymore and he therefore could not know what his wife was doing. Dummies
at the helm, with, I might add, presidential aspirations. But hey, dishonest
politicians, what a concept!
Professional football players assaulting girlfriends, who shortly
thereafter become the wives of said assaulters, and then defend them? Eh… These
guys are paid millions to injure each other. Women willing to pay the price to
be wives of such men? Well, yes, there are some.
Recently a young girl vanished after drinking too much and
trying to find her way home alone at 1 a.m.? Sad. Tragic even, but not exactly
unexpected. My gee whizz question is, were where her friends? And why did they
allow her to leave by herself? Oh, wait,
maybe they were drinking too?
White cops killing young black men, which leads to riots and
destruction. Yeah, that’s unprecedented.
And oh, yes, Ebola (why does it have a capitalized letter? Other
diseases don’t unless their named after someone…) has officially landed in the
US, in texas, mopre specifically, but we’re told not to worry. It will be
contained. Of course it will. Only a
month or so ago, the Center for Disease Control was telling us that the chance
of this particular disease coming to this country was nil. Of course it was.
And some delusional African-American is imitating the ISIS executioners
and cut off the head of a lady in Texas, I think. The cutter-offer is a black
man who recently converted to Islam without knowing, I suppose, that Islamic
Arabs were the ones capturing black Africans and selling them to slavers not
all that long ago.
I have lost the power to be outraged. It’s pretty
disconcerting. Is it age, or the familiarity of repeated events?
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