Fortunately, thanks to the egos and desire to be noticed of today’s Americans, it’s easier than ever before to figure out who’s responsible. Just look for people who: say “follow the science” proudly display an Obama or Biden sticker on their car stand in doorways having conversations wear masks in their cars make Tik Tok videos of themselves dancing slow down for green lights ask a lot of questions during a 4pm Friday work meeting just want people to vote (regardless of who they’re voting for) eat veggie burgers stand in the aisle and dink around with their personal…
House flippers and scalpers
House flippers and scalpers are two sides of the same dirty coin. Both take something of value to a very limited audience, artificially insert themselves into the transaction, bump up the price, and take a cut they have no business taking. House flippers take a house with imperfections, in which they have no interest, so real house hunters can’t buy it at a legitimate price, and wallpaper over the imperfections to hide them to the buyer. Then they put it on the market and sell it to the highest and most unsuspecting buyer they can. Scalpers buy tickets to…
Vaccination branding
Who here can tell me the maker of your last flu shot? Who knows which company produced their last flu shot? Who ever heard of any vaccinations being chosen by the maker? When did we ever start asking people if they’ve been vaccinated? For anything? Who can name a non-COVID vaccination you’ve had, either for yourself or your kids, where you knew who made it? There’s just something that seems off about there being so much social conversation about whether or not someone’s been vaccinated, which company made the vaccination, and how did they react to it. We’ve all…
Ban awards
A rare flip through the television channels took me to a story on BBC America about a woman in Kenya who was using recycled materials to make a very strong and sturdy brick. The story started out by calling attention to all of the plastic in the ocean (apparently an area the size of Texas). It went on to show some massive landfill areas in Kenya which were teeming with buzzards. Meanwhile, I was talking to a friend who’s department at work is moving to a new building they had built on their campus. She was telling me about…
If I were a police officer…
If I were a police officer, and I liked killing unarmed black people, I’d cool it for now and start killing unarmed white people, just to stay in practice. The media would never cover it, and I could pretty much go about my killing of unarmed criminals unabated. Then, when the heat around killing unarmed black people inevitably dies down, I could resume killing hundreds of thousands of millions of unarmed black people without missing a beat.
Did you get your flu shot?
Since when is getting a flu shot so cool? I can’t remember a time when everyone talked with such pride about getting their flu shot. No one talked about it. No one cared. It was just one of those things we took for granted was out there and available. But it seems like every other conversation I hear or am part of includes someone talking about getting their COVID vaccine: Did you get it? Which one are you on? Which brand? How was your reaction to the first one? How was your reaction to the second one? What symptoms…
Masks are the new floss pick
Every day I go for one, if not two walks, and every day, I see discarded masks littering the streets and trails. Masks are the new floss pick, which were the new cigarette butts. Back when smoking was more popular and less dangerous, it was fairly common to see cigarette butts littering the streets and walkways. That waned as people started to give it up. So, we replaced it with floss picks. When floss picks arrived on the scene, people were discarding those on the streets left and right. You couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting one. But…
Imitation and the Constitution
The United States Constitution was the first of its kind, bringing about an entirely different perspective on the role of government. One of it’s most revolutionary features was the concept of negative rights. It clearly articulates what the government cannot do to citizens. It can’t silence you. It can’t take away your guns. They can’t just show up and search through your home, and you can’t just be put away in jail without a speedy trial (unless you were involved in the “insurrection”). Though probably the most critical concept is that human rights come from God, or a higher…
Who would you rather have in charge?
Leftists have an unquenchable thirst for power. They always have. It’s the nature of their personality. Leftists aren’t content to let people make the choices they think best for them. They’re not happy to leave things to chance. Leftists aren’t comfortable not knowing what people will do when left to their own devices. To get the power they crave, they’ll aggressively go to any lengths necessary. They’ll demonize half the country. They’ll destroy people’s lives. They’ll pit friends, genders, races, and even family members against each other. Anything it takes to win power and take control of the country….
Choosing sides
Everything the left touches becomes political, which means everything the left touches is divisive. Wherever people are minding their own businesses and living their lives the way they know best, inevitably the left will move in and insist they make a choice. Where people used to use a men’s or women’s restroom, the left had to make people choose whether or not they were for transgender people using one versus the other. Most people didn’t care. But now they had to make a choice. Where people used to just get along with their neighbors, regardless of skin color, the…