Why Bother?

Why do we go the extra mile, above and beyond, and exceed expectations?

Overemphasis on winning, or in my own case, hatred of losing? Now I am discounting the J. Pierpont Finches of the business world.

You know them.

The guys (or gals) that can’t find their ass with both hands, do mediocre work (at best), but knows all the right people, and is, for some inexplicable reason, “in” with all the right people, so up the corporate ladder they go. Meanwhile, you continue to work in obscurity.

Sound familiar?

That’s why I love the arts as opposed to the sciences.

In art, there is no competition; every work of art stands on its own, not to be poked, prodded, or deciphered. The reaction to art is a personal, intimate experience and most subjective.

A Daredevil Plunges Sixty-Eight Floors to his Death.

That’s the headline.

Why?

He was known previously as a thrill-seeking daredevil who climbed tall things.

Now he is known as a victim of his Chosen Path.

That career path is like:

Hooray!

You’re dead.

Just another thing I don’t get.

So, the bald little lawn gnome Pooty-Poot-Putin has decided to increase the fine for not showing up at the military recruiter’s (suicide) office. I am not fully convinced that the increased fine he will charge is enough to sway the minds of people who would like to stay alive, thank you very much.

I read where old cue-ball-in-the-side-pocket Putin is Putting Together Private Network of Armies All Over Russia or so the headline says.

Why, it seems like only yesterday I was reading how he could not get any volunteers (willing ones) for his army.

It probably goes something like this:

“Excuse me, how can I help you today?”

(men with guns) “You and everyone in this building are now official members of the Russian Army.”

No one wants to go back to the antiquated brick and mortar business dynamic, and I feel the pandemic has inexorably changed it.

For the worse.

The old dynamic of fairly consistent mediocre customer service and the ability to connect and communicate with a human voice has given way to one of absolute horseshit with yet another pre-recorded warning telling me to “be sure and listen to the menu options as they have been changed.” You lying assholes, that’s the same menu message I heard two years ago!

Authorities are claiming that poison has leeched into the heroin and cocaine supply.

Sorry.

It didn’t work when they tried criminalizing weed in Reefer Madness (an all-time classic) and the only thing that will make it work is if you have a few fatalities, so nice try; try again.

Go ahead and give it to him; you know it is just a matter of time. Usually, even in the embryonic stages of a nomination campaign for the right to represent the Republican (read: Nazi) party, there might be an extremely large margin of say, as high as fifteen percent between the front-runner and their closest challenger.

Thirty-seven percent shows Trump is the best they can do, and that is pretty sad because we the American People, are the ones who have to suffer the embarassment of having this douchebag criminal fuckhead as leader of the free world.

Free world?

Hell, America isn’t even free.

Not anymore.

In Pakistan, a suicide bomber killed fifty-four people and wounded many others.

Stop calling it a suicide bombing.

It’s mass murder.

Suicide is when you take your own life.

Let’s face it. I have no compunction pulling the trigger and giving those whacky Russians a load when they deserve it, but if truth be told, the Ukranian counter-offensive has been somewhat less than effective.

The Russians have upped their game.

Suddenly, the tactical and logistical errors are no longer dominating their actions.

But guess what is also going on while the ground battle continues?

Training.

Remember one of the big issues getting sophisticated and technical weapons sent to the war effort was the lengthy learning curve to train pilots and tank crews (for the Abrams war machines)?

Well, their training will be over and when it is…

I’m gonna take my shot and point to the centerfield fence with my bat.

This war will be over soon after.

Just like those pussy Russians. The Ukranians start blowing up chunks of Russia and they come back with a threat to use nuclear weapons.

Go ahead, do it.

I thought so, you chickenshits.

Just like the no-balls leadership in the dying city of Portland, Oregon who have led their city to the brink of extinction. Way to let crime run rampant and chase away the very people that made you a city in the first place.

Way to go.

So, they brought the Snakeman to justice in California and he was nailed with fifty-four felony counts. I’ve seen enough cases on Law and Order to know a bad deal when I hear one. I wonder what he plead down from?

And just so you don’t think it only happens in the big cities…

The “Doomsday Mom,” who killed her own two children and smiled her way through sentencing, will be able to think about well, everything, since the crazy bitch will spend her remaining breaths in prison.

In Idaho.

I don’t know what frightens me the most: living (and dying) in Idaho, her demented smirk when she was sentenced, or the fact that somebody actually got fucked up enough TWICE and porked her.