Month: February 2018

Most of us who were born in 1946 went to college in 1964 and graduated in 1968.  That makes this the year of the 50^th college reunions.  Hard to believe.

At my college it was the custom for the class that was having its 50^th reunion to schedule it the same weekend as the graduation and for the 50-year-men to march at the head of the graduation procession.  It’s a nice tradition and still done.  So that means if I go to my 50^th reunion I would be marching with all the other old geezers.

I remember a brief thought at my graduation as I watched, through my blood-shot eyes and hangover, those old geezers from the class of 1918.  That thought was – my god how can they still walk at that age.  They looked SO OLD.  I most definitely do not feel as old as those guys looked.

Had I not been so self-absorbed, I would possibly have thought about the incredible changes they had experienced and witnessed in those 50 years.  The roaring twenties in their twenties; prohibition; the great depression; WW II; the Korean war; the cold war and the beginning of the Vietnam war.  And that led me to think about the changes in my 50 years as a college graduate.

Nixon to Bush to Tramp – a terrible progression; can it get any worse?

Rotary dial phones to smart phones – there is such a thing as too much communication.

Electric typewriters to word processors – more information but less knowledge and wisdom.

No computers to laptops and AI – scary stuff.

Three television networks to hundreds – and still nothing to watch.

The cold war we “won” to the cyber war that we may be losing.

 

I like to make these posts interactive, so please send in your changes, especially you who are facing your 50^th reunion this summer.

Webster’s Dictionary: “crusty, ill-tempered and usually old man”

Alternative definition: “an old baby boomer”

Do we all fit the definition?  Probably not.  Do most of us?  Probably.

But what’s wrong with that I ask.  A corollary trait for a curmudgeon includes “no tolerance for fools”, and we need a lot more people with that trait today.  No longer can we idly sit on our hands while these fools ruin the world for everyone.  We need to have zero tolerance for a long list of fools:

• the Fake-President
• red light runners
• NRA members and supporters
• anyone on Fox News
• anyone who believes everything they hear on television
• Republicans in the congress
• grocery store executives who approved self-checkout kiosks
• people who deny global warming

Continue reading “curmudgeon”

Clinton, Bush, Tramp – all Presidents of the United States.  All born in 1946, the first year of the baby boom.   Its never happened before.  There have been three sets of two Presidents born in the same year.:  John Q. Adams and Andrew Jackson – 1767;  Ulysses Grant and Rutherford Hayes – 1822; and Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford – 1913.

We should have stopped at one; learned our lesson with two.; and never done the third.

The Fake President is the oldest ever to take office, just slightly older than Reagan who was also mentally impaired when he started.

We have a minimum age limit.  Maybe there should be a maximum limit – say 60.  AND a mental health test!

My mother lives in a nice condo in an exclusive community.  She and my dad bought it over forty years ago for less than $100,000 and its now worth over $2 million.  I visit her frequently and on every visit I’m overwhelmed by the incredible wealth on display in the enormous mansions, which are hidden behind gates and large walls.  But it’s not just that one community and its mansions.  The evidence of excessive wealth is everywhere.  Unfortunately, so is the evidence of hopeless poverty and suffering.

Continue reading “socialism after all”

To the surprise of almost no one, not even the fake president, it is now clear that the Russians were a large factor in the outcome of the last election.

That’s terrible…right?  Of course, but the worse thing is that we can’t do anything about it.  Will we be able to void the election?  No.  We will be able to get a real president?  No.   Will we be lucky enough that there is a “smoking gun” that implicates the fake president in a cover-up?  Probably not and even if there was, that idiot and his lackys would be able to divert our attention by yelling about HIllary’s emails.

So let’s not spend any time on this and instead focus on driving as many Republicans from the House as we can come November.