Saying "I don't know" is not admitting stupidity; it is usually just being honest.

Some folks apparently feel that they should have an answer to every question; a solution to every problem. They seldom preface their statements with "I don't really know, but I think---" or even "In my opinion---". They make what sound like statements of fact.

Unless they were on the golf course the other day with Trump and his crew, darn few people know what the apparent meeting on the links was about. Yet, you could read posts here claiming that it was a nefarious mob meeting planning all sorts of dirty deeds AND you could read counter-posts stating that the get-together was an innocent planning session about alterations to the course.

I have suspicions and an opinion about that meeting, but I can't tell you "what it was about" because I don't know.

Loyalty to a mean greedy ignorant maniac is not a virtue; it is idiotic craven toadyism.

Too often I have heard political commentators waste time marveling at the undeserved "loyalty" the Trump cult ass-kissers show toward tfg.

Supporting someone like Trump in the hope that that will spare you his vindictive wrath is not "loyalty"; that is terror.

Supporting someone like Trump in the hope that he will reward you with wealth or power is not "loyalty"; that is prostitution.

True loyalty, in my personal dictionary, is motivated by respect and love. You are said to be "loyal" to a person for whom you have these feelings. when they can count on you, come what may.

And neither threats nor rewards have anything to do with it.

"Loyalty" is a noble word and should not be used to describe cowards or whores.

Lend me your imagination for a few seconds, ok? I know it's hard, but suppose you were a

multi-billionaire.

Would you be any smarter?

Would you suddenly acquire special insights about all sorts of issues that others should listen to?


Who gives a big brown rat's ass about what the estimable Mr. Thiel has to say about ANYTHING?

Decades ago, I heard the story of a beat cop encountering a man on his hands and knees

under a streetlight apparently looking for something.

"What's up?" the cop asked. "Lookin' for somethin'?"

"My---hic!--- car keys" the obviously inebriated man replied.

After joining the search for a few minutes, the cop inquired "Are ya sure this is where ya dropped 'em?"

"Nah," the man answered, "I dropped 'em ---hic! --- over there by my ---hic!--- car", pointing to a red sedan in the darkened middle of the block.

The cop straightened up, scratched his head and asked "If ya dropped your keys over there,---pointing---why ya lookin' for 'em here?"

"Simple!" the drunk responded, somewhat condescendingly, "the light's much better here!"


Somewhere in that tale is an analogy to how MAGAvolk decide who gets their vote, but I'll leave that to wiser folks.

As I approach the far edge of my life

I do not---am not meant to---know
if my stepping off point lies just 'round that next bend
or beyond some distant hill.

Though I am certain that my beginning
is much more distant than my end,
I am ignorant as to whether there really is an end
---or maybe just another beginning.

Either way, I'd best use my now wisely
and leave no one I love untold.

So, where are the photos of all the Ukrainian "Nazis" Putin killed or captured? nt

Why, yes, I AM a Trump-hater. Why do you say that like it's a bad thing?

"Hate" is simply an intense or passionate dislike and I assure you my dislike of the one term twice-impeached failed insurrectionist loser is very intense and passionate.

I have similar feelings about Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot and others, but none of them is currently leading the effort to destroy America from within. Decent folks intensely and passionately dislike such monsters.

So, call me a "Trump-hater" and I just might bust out my Elvis impersonation and respond "Thangyoo, thangyoo verra much!"

Sorry---guess I'm a blue-nosed dinosaur.

I have just watched a man discussing his bent "manhood", a woman discussing the smell of her "crotch", a man discussing his dog's "good quality poops" and a cartoon about a bowel movement that feels like "squeezing out a pineapple or two".

I am not so much offended as I am disgusted.

Brunch, anyone?

Which position did Cannon apply for with her obscene "Special Master" decision:

Trump's Attorney General or a possible SCOTUS seat if he were to be re-elected?

As someone who planted his first fruit trees over 40 years ago, I feel qualified to

analogize the painful pruning process that is necessary for a tree to be productive to what needs to be done with our Congress and our Supreme Court.

Limbs that are broken or diseased are the most obvious ones to be cut away. But, it is also necessary that limbs be removed that are simply going in the wrong direction or at a bad angle. And a limb doing injury to another has to go.

If these tried and true practices were applied as ruthlessly as a good orchardist wields his shears, we'd prune away every Representative and Senator who voted to overturn the 2020 election of President Biden AND we'd have at least three SCOTUS seats to fill.

Believe it or not, novice pruners are often urged to "Be bold! What you cut away will make the tree thrive."