Practicing the virtues of benign neglect.
Now it transpires that we should leave the leaves (English is a wondrous language!) on the lawn. Beneficial to over-wintering bugs, apparently. Which is fortuitous because this Head Groundskeeper had no intention of turning over a new leaf this fall. We’ll deal with next Spring when it gets here, in the sweet bye and bye.
Another horticultural breakthrough came our way when the science recommended letting our lawn grasses grow 3 or even 3.5 inches high before mowing. Crowds out weeds. Easier on the mower — man and machine.
Back when we first set up the flat screen TV with cable service, could not seem to get picture or sound. Despite identifying as male, actually read the instructions. Worked the remote like Vladimir Horowitz beating on the Steinway. Nothing. Sat back in the chair defeated. Abracadabra! Picture and sound in hi-def, living color! Directions never said there would be a 5-second delay. (It’s electricity! Why would that be?)
Reminds us of a practice we employed while flacking for various cabinet secretaries in Wisconsin state government. When the news media had us dead to rights on our latest malfeasance and wanted a reaction, we responded by taking a long walk outside. (Yeah, before cell phones.) “Could not be reached for comment” had a certain ring to our ears. When in holes, stop digging.
We did fantasize about being the first press secretary afflicted by Tourette Syndrome. “🔥😜💣!!☆X⚠️👺”, Blaska said.
Our newest entry into the Bartlett’s of Bowdlerisms: Michele Cottle in (where else?) The New York Times: “Mr. Schumer … has again infuriated his base by failing to stop a Republican spending bill from clearing the Senate.”
“A Republican spending bill”? (!!!) The one that kept government open? That “Republican spending bill”?
A question for TDS sufferers (it works both ways): now that Trump says unseal the Epstein files, is it o.k. to admit Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, and Lauren Boebert back into the tent? Or are they still “traitors”? Asking for a friend.
Watching Ken Burns’ The American Revolution, Blaska wonders if he would have been a Tory or a Patriot or the one-third that said, “Depends on who’s winning.” Back then, Patriots wrote Constitutions and feared Big Gummint. Today, they issue executive orders.
Physicists suggest that before the Big Bang, a mirror universe may have existed where time flowed backward. According to the theory, this mirror universe would have opposite time direction and reversed physics, balancing matter and anti-matter in a way that helps explain why our universe is dominated by matter.
We thought time was flowing backwards watching the last Madison Common Council meeting. There are several things in our own life we would like to rewind. Increasingly, a random recollection hits us just before we fall asleep — something exceptionally stupid we said or did. (Seems to be an inexhaustible supply.) An old man’s regrets, we suppose.
Mark Twain or Abe Lincoln (accounts differ) had it right: “It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” Everyone thought Chance the Gardner was a savant; poor Kamala removed all doubt.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: We are Ronald Reagan Republicans — the limited government thing. Our hero would say, “Don’t just do something! Stand there!”
10 responses to “All things come to those who wait”
“We did fantasize about being the first press secretary afflicted by Tourette Syndrome. “🔥😜💣!!☆X⚠️👺”, Blaska said.” Love it!!
I’m not sure what syndrome was responsible, but Biden’s press secretary, Ms. Jean-Pierre, whose only qualifications were her race and sexual preference, will long be remembered for her inability to articulate a coherent thought or just memorize a list of Democrat talking-points. Haven’t heard much about her second career, but I suspect she has a tenured position at Harvard or Yale or Columbia or one of the other ivy-league retreats for washed-up Democrats.
It’s good to see that you are still obsessed with race and sexual preference.
And anchovy pizza.
Mace is insane, Boebert is dumb as a rock, I like Green, but she is out until the gop finds the balls to tell donny to STFU.
We are supposed to live in a rationalist era in which science has banished the superstition and ignorance of religion and metaphysical thinking that characterized the benighted past. So when a physicist, one of the high priests of science, comes up with a “theory” about a mirror universe where time flows backwards, we’re expected to nod in awe-struck obedience, despite the fact that any twelve-year-old science fiction fan could easily have come up with the same notion. (Ever notice how the word “theory” demands instant credibility when it comes from scientists and academics, no matter how harebrained it might seem to the uninitiated?)
For the most part, I enjoyed the Ken Burns extravaganza despite the references to slavery that appeared at two-minute intervals throughout and the thinly disguised allusions to Trump (Beware of “demagogues!”) sprinkled here and there.
How did you intuit that the Founders’ concern (Beware of “demagogues!”) anticipated the rise of Trump?
The MAGA reply to your question would be “your Mom ” that you’re a third rate, low IQ failure spreading a hoax who should be investigated by DOJ and then send you a pipe bomb. All in the name of god, country. Then find a Latino and beat them up.
The Democrat reply: wear a mask, get an unproven vax, alienate everyone around you, decimate the economy, retard children for years, precipitate a mental health crisis, Biden’s not compromised it’s a deep fake, we don’t need to primary Kamala she’s great, there is no open border, follow (our) science, there’s no social media censorship, mostly peaceful, boys can be girls and vice versa, socialism works, and on and on. Admit it Liesak, you guys are toast. I’d be surprised if the Democratic party is still in existence for the next presidential election.
The Democrats abandoned the reasonable middle and working classes for coastal elites, wokester freaks, urban scofflaws, and pseudo academics. Small wonder people are fleeing their party. The DSAers are a scarier bunch, but at least everyone in the center and rightward knows it.