It Occurred to Me

“Baby Huey” (for those of you old enough to remember him [her? it?])

and

“Bluto” (from the Popeye universe [He deserves a universe?])

represent the two tendencies of the Democratic Party.

I was going to create a Straight Line out of this, but what humor can come from it? It’s simply true.

Cartoons and Memes

Now you may be asking yourself, “where is my Wednesday poll question?”

That is a great question and I can only answer it in this fashion.

I’m taking a small break.

So instead you get a bonus addition of Cartoons and memes which will have to hold you over until I can find it in my heart to post another one. I make no promises but I am open to bribes.

Random Thoughts: Trump Virus and Ahmaud Arbery

UDP is fun. It’s sending packets on the network without out a net. And they’re constantly falling off the wire.

The nine “Skywalker Saga” movies ranked:
1. The Empire Strikes Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Force Awakens
5. Rise of the Skywalker
6. The Last Jedi
7. Revenge of the Sith
8. Attack of the Clones
9. The Phantom Menace

If you’re not for ending city life, you just want people to die.

I assume our six-foot distancing rule is safer than Britain’s weird two-meter rule.

This is like Game of Thrones; I can’t keep track of all the characters in the Trump presidency. I mean, I know I’ve heard the name “Michael Flynn” before, but I can’t remember what his story is.

I’m glad they exonerated Flynn. He had nothing to do with his father’s meth empire.

Is there anyone who sees trying to get the phrase “Trump virus” or “Trump depression” going as anything other than naked politics by soulless partisans?
All they’re doing is making it clear Trump takes things more seriously than they do.

I liked the Seinfeld Netflix special. It started out slow — where I was like “Uh oh. He’s lost it.” — as he was doing a bit I think was only funny if you were in the audience. After that, it was classic Seinfeld.

Remember to give a lot of leeway to people on both sides — those freaking out about the lockdown and those freaking out about reopening. It’s not like any of us has dealt with something like this before and has some standard script to follow.

Weird how knowing one of the people who killed Ahmaud Arbery is a retired police officer helps it make sense to me, because first reaction was “Who in the world would think an armed posse is the response to someone looking around a construction site?” And then I was like, “Oh.”

Elon Musk wants to bring more jobs to Texas? But we already have too many darn jobs here because of our friendly business environment and low of cost of living. I just don’t know. Maybe if he sends me a Tesla, he can win me over.

It is little bit depressing that we have to spend time again explaining why racism is bad, due process is good, socialism is bad, and free speech is good. I thought we covered all this a while ago and moved on to new things.

Eventually California will have extremely rich people and homeless people and no one else.

“If the guy was so innocent, why did he stab me after I tried to strangle him?”

I think part of what’s caused people to jump to conclusions on Ahmaud Arbery is that the attempts at defense of the McMichaels has been so terrible that it only makes it look worse.
“Here’s video of Arbery going for the gun!”
“Wow. Those guys came at Arbery like complete psychopaths.”
“No, that’s not… And here’s video of him committing burglary!”
“Wow. That video proves he was killed for absolutely nothing.”
“No… he committed burglary of the heart!”

Elon Musk is probably the closing thing we have to a real-life Rick from Rick & Morty.

You can’t spend your way out of people not working. That’s not how a country’s wealth works.

Next playthrough of Red Dead Redemption 2 I’m going to have Arthur Morgan where his mask even when I’m not robbing so as not to give TB to anyone else.

I’m actually getting a little worried hearing about all the existing characters that will be in The Mandalorian season 2. It was kind of nice being it’s own little thing.