It’s a dog-eat-dog world, Sammy, and I’m wearing Milk Bone Underwear.
George Wendt, Cheers
I paid my main credit card bill over the phone. A few hours later I received an email stating that if I did not make that payment to contact them immediately.
Now, if someone else wants to pay my credit card bill, stopping them does not seem to be in my best interest.
I wasn’t surprised at the prompt. Today’s world is, well, absurd.
From a President who raises or lowers tariffs so quickly that no one can keep track to a Governor claiming his National Giard’s engineering battalions aren’t equipped to help after a major tornado, each day plays like a Monty Python sketch. (I won’t be buying the dead parrot, thank you.)
The other week I talked about marbles to make my point. If one marble gets dropped it’s pretty easy to track it down and put it back. Spill a box of marbles every day and you’ll never find them all. Not even when they trip you. Repeatedly.
Call it weirdness fatigue.
While commending the West Point class of 2025 Donald Trump slipped into a riff on the perils of trophy wives. Yet, about three-quarters of the coverage on his speech omitted that reference.
The other week I mentioned a state senator, Jill Carter (R – Newton Co.) who demands that this state’s public-school districts not be forced to be accredited by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Meanwhile, the legislature ran out of time to perfect Version 2.0 of the Second Amendment Preservation Act, despite all the federal courts saying, “no, you can’t do that.”
Somewhere there might be humor in big parts of all this. Alas, absurdity has reached the point where innocent people are going to get hurt.
- At a fundraiser for Veterans Groups an organizer explained that federal cuts in St. Louis could force Jefferson County vets to go to Cape Girardeau to get assistance.
- Missouri lost a big lawsuit on how it operates food stamps, still, the Big Beautiful Bill proposes eliminating most federal oversight.
- Despite four of every seven voters wanting sick days for workers, well, the legislature said no – a couple of weeks after the sick leave provisions began!
- The U.S. Department of Justice now claims the 14th Amendment (which includes citizenship at birth) doesn’t mean what it says.
You get the idea.
Unfortunately, taking a four-year long nap isn’t an option. We have to make the journey, and, we have to keep standing up against tidal waves trying to drown us all. Morons Are Governing America but we must endure. Like Norm from Cheers. So, have a few beers than return to the absurdity.
Glenn
BTW: I met George Wendt a few years back at a public appearance – at a bar, of course –in Hillsboro. Very nice guy.
Glenn Koenen