Pet Peeves

- Being made to wait forever on line at a restaurant where, once you get in, you see oodles of empty tables

- Birds that reward your bird-feeder generosity by pooping all over your deck

- Endless My Pillow, E.D. and personal-injury lawyer TV commercials

- Tech companies appropriating our most private data and selling it

- Melodramatic Mika,  Morning Joke and other spittle-flecked never-Trump talking heads

- Strange first names with weird spellings and apostrophes ... see: The Name Game.

- Cats that sit there looking elsewhere when you ope the door for them ... letting in the freezing air

- Restaurant wait staff who clearly look the other way when you are trying to get their attention

- Multiple belly-rubbing award ceremonies run by puffed-up glitterati for puffed-up glitterati

- Hypocrites hiding behind walls saying that walls don't work to keep us safe

Obvious Truth #7

Walls have been used from times immemorial to mark boundaries and control passive movement. Those that deny this obvious truth are just silly Pollyannas. -- Anon.

Walls

We each consciously and carefully build the metaphorical walls of the cell in which we are thenceforth confined ...

Obama's Legacy

Former President Obama has left us with a nation in physical, fiscal and moral tatters ... depressingly populated with political, technical, financial, sports, media and entertainment elites ensconced behind walls who would deny us a wall ... whose solution to social injustice is payoffs ... who use armed bodyguards but curse their guns ... who have defined much immorality as a Constitutional guarantee ...who demand tolerance for those who are intolerant ... who encourage the disrespect of authority ...who coddle a drug culture ...who mock the righteous and curse the clear thinkers ... who would surrender our sovereignty to unelected bureaucrats ... whose notion of freedom is suppression ... whose charity begins with other people's money ... and who worship vanity and encourage excess. And he has infected much of the rest of the world with his insidious, upside down thinking. We are indeed but one short step away from perdition.

And Hillary is Obama's doppelganger. Yes, Trump is far far from perfect ... but, next to these two, he looks a lot like Ronald Reagan.

Afterward: I forgot to include educational elites to my list. Perhaps I could have just said "elites"?