what's in a word?: Thursday - very nice day indeed - got the gutters of my house cleaned

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Thursday - very nice day indeed - got the gutters of my house cleaned

I noticed the last time we had a heavy rain around here that on one side of the house the water was overflowing the gutter. We have deep eaves so it wasn't splashing in the house, but when I went outside later, I could see that the gutters on that side were full of leaves, twigs and some pine cones. Today, the people we use to clean them twice each year came and took care of it. Now I have to wait for the next heavy rain to know if they did a good job.

The pandemic drags on even as sTrump'et and company try to act as if it's all an illusion. I read that his campaign is trying to make sure that the convention in Jacksonville FL is not the disaster that Tulsa turned out to be, but what with the growing number of cases of Covid-19 and the number of new hospitalizations, there is reason for them to worry.

I don't want to get too optimistic. sTrump'et has to be defeated and it will take a long, active campaign to see this through. He still has more than 6 months during which he can cause this country a lot of damage. It doesn't help that he uses racist and xenophobic language all the time, that he acts as if everything is rosy and that he's done nothing wrong, only those who came before him set it up so he'd fail.

But when people such as Bolton and his cousin feel that he is simply too dangerous to be left in office, we all should start worrying.

I want to think of a way to talk to sTrump'etistas so they begin to see the picture, but I know that is simply expecting too much from those who've drank that particular poisoned Kool-aid.

So work had and work smart to unelect this minority President and get this country back on track.

Pictures tonight are all of people occupied by their mobile device, even when they ought to be paying attention to their surroundings. In particular, notice the woman crossing the street and the two men sitting on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan. If it wasn't so commonplace, I'd think it sacrilegious.

Well, actually not.