Shitty Commenters

Okay, nobody commented on my "Thanks, Pandemic!" entry so here goes:

Kamala Harris in a mask is at a protest outside the White House right now.

The Minneapolis police chief says his jail is full of Trump supporting white supremacists.

NASA launched a spaceship today.

Thanks, Pandemic!

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Leftovers

We don't know what to do with old people.

And old people don't know what to do with themselves.

But they have to go on living regardless because qualifying for physician assisted dying is like winning the lottery.

A Real Whodunnit

Starting to suspect either the Russian mob was behind Trump's nomination which in turn caused the FBI to call its bluff and elect him President - or - the FBI was behind Trump's nomination which in turn caused the Russian mob to call its bluff and elect him President.

Ground Zero for Democracy

When the Electoral College voted Donald Trump into the presidency, shocking and dismaying people of sound mind, Obama told us to stand down, let's see how this plays out, maybe he'll grow into the office, but that's how the democracy goes sometimes, the people win some, the people lose some.

Then he went water skiing with Richard Branson as if he didn't have a care in the world.

Shortly after that, almost like it had been set up and ready to go like, like, a pandemic manual, a massive criminal investigation was launched into that election and the world watched a stock photo of Robert Mueller and a couple of stern faced prosecutors come and go while the office grew into Donald Trump.

And not just the office. Everything. People wrote into their own obituaries that their only regret was dying before the end of Donald Trump as President of the United States.

And when Robert Mueller handed in his small piece of that massive and ongoing criminal investigation, 600 pages of redactions so as not to compromise ongoing matters resulting from that massive criminal investigation, called in early by law and order thwarter, Bill Barr, Nancy Pelosi said she wanted a democratic solution to Donald Trump, not a criminal one.

Then impeachment without conviction came along, as was a foregone conclusion, because, as Lindsay Graham became famous for saying, "if we nominate Trump, we will be destroyed, and we will deserve it".

So in for a penny, in for a pound, may as well go down swinging our golf clubs.

But then COVID-19 came along and a stay-at-home order and the shutdown of the economy and armed white nationalists loitering on the steps of state legislatures making death threats against politicians while law and order pretty much turns a blind eye until they get tired and go home.

I don't know about you, but, Obama pandemic plan or not, nobody really seemed to expect or be prepared for COVID-19. And that includes armed white nationalists. I mean, they can't even get arrested for making death threats against politicians from the steps of state legislatures.

Law and order has bigger fish to fry. Somewhere. Just not where anyone can smell it going down.

Well last week, apropos of nothing, Joe Biden said he will not pardon Donald Trump. And Obama gave a presidential commencement address, a call to individual and collective action from graduates, in which he alluded to the problem of an infantile degenerate occupying the White House, and then seemed to punctuate it with a tweet, "vote".

So that's it, that's going to be the lesson to Americans and the rest of the world, including the despots and the global mob who have caused us so much death and destruction, that the best fix for the problem of Donald Trump is, as Nancy Pelosi said, democracy.

But then I want guillotines on the front lawn of the White House.

Eldercare

My mother was a retired high school teacher with a university degree. At 95 her pension was paying her more money than I managed to make in five years of working.

And all of it went to Chartwell.

So why not have a system of eldercare whereby people who can no longer live independently give up their pensions to the government and the government provides them with the appropriate and graduated level of care and accommodation they require. Co-op-style. Elders spreading their wealth to look after each other and provide meaningful employment for geriatric support workers.

The Morning After Mothers' Day

It's embarrassing to me, Mothers Day.

Mothers steal our young pure DNA in utero and trade us their old sketchy DNA.

Wake up, people.

That Looks Good on You! You Should Buy It!

Between 2013 and 2015 I sold ladieswear at the mall. Then I wrote a book about it. I sent it to a few friends to read. They liked it but most friends said they would rather wait until it's published, buy it, and then read it. Or not.

Either way, they wanted to pay for it. And fair enough. I prefer doing that, too.

Then I decided I'd like illustrations for my book. One thing led to another and a Facebook friend agreed to do them. The illustrations took a while, and during that time, my mother died, and then my illustrator's mother died. But on April 1st, my dead mother's birthday, the book was complete with illustrations. It had also been re-edited by a couple of keen-eyed readers.

The end?

Maybe?

Look, here's the thing, my Facebook friend and I are splitting the profits from sales of the book. She's donating her share to a shelter in her area, I'm donating my share to a shelter in Ottawa. It's the only thing that makes sense to us now and I'm sure you can all appreciate why.

But getting a book published is hard. I thought I could just slap it up on Amazon but I can't. It's too complicated. So I'm soliciting advice, help, maybe even a publisher to get the job done for us.

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