To quote my hero, Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner’s 1st Masterpiece, The Princess Bride You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Today on ‘How to build a fence’ we continue on how to tear down the previous fence and negotiate where the new one will go,…
Oh look, A Distraction
A round up of the recent quixotic changes in just a few weeks in the 2nd term of D.J. Trump. Keeping it light.
September 8, 2025 Enter Stage Right: The Demolition Crew.
George Washington in a whimsical mood I know, the events in these next few posts took place in the spring but it’s hard to keep up, y’know. The current administration loves living in the middle of chaos. It gives him the feeling he is a puppeteer and everyone around him look to him for direction.…
The First 100 Days? Give your Head a Shake.
It’s all a bit hard to watch the current “never have I ever” when in during first term of the Dear Leader he held an open cabinet meeting where every newly appointed cabinet secretary spent their speaking time praising and thanking Mr. President for allowing them time in his divine presence. Oh, and there was…
Playing catch-up: Inaugural review
The gaps in this journal seem to be getting longer and longer. It’s partly a sense of ennui from the shouting and alarms every day in the country formerly advertised as the birthplace of democracy Okay, ennui is not the right word. It implies an indifference and disinterest when it is more accurately a disbelief…
March 18 We’ve only Just Begun…
With the world focused on tariffs and a fine display of playground diplomacy there were a few moments of some folk questioning the chevauchée approach to reforming the civil service. The chain saw approach to personnel management was not obvious until the man leading the charge appeared with an actual chain saw in one hand…
March 3, 2025 Let March Madness begin
Time to put away the compilation of doomscrolling latest hits…anyone remember ‘K-Tel’ records? Hello? Anyone? Okay, gather ‘round boys and girls and hear the tale of of the birth of “But wait, there’s more” and SNL Legend Dan Ackroyd’s iconic Irwin Mainway, Bass O’Matic and 4 records in my closet stash with psychedelic covers proclaiming…
March 1, 2023 Wear a Leek, Make Some Soup, Repel a Saxon
Just taking a break from banging my head against the nearest wall. Let’s look at a grand tradition from a wonderful part of the world - how I’d love to be in Wales right now. Today is St. David’s Day. Traditionally Welsh people around the western world wear a leek—yes, the veggie that looks like…
Feb 26, 2025 Time to Pick up the Pace
It is so hard to keep up with the crazy the Commodus in Chief is cranking out. Every day something new comes on the news to top the previous standard of outrage. One day he issued a variety of social media posts proclaiming himself king. He’d issued a social media post proclaiming he’d struck down…
February 19 A New Hat for a New World
Week 4 - where to begin? It’s been an ongoing series of ‘oh look over there’ and complete batshit crazy decrees from HRH Don R to baffle onlookers and leave the rest of the world gob smacked with terror. It isn’t funny anymore. Well, okay, there is an urge to laugh at the dissonance of…
A journal of the Donald Commodus plague years 