Kanye Shmanye

With which pole of the bipolar multimillionaire are we supposed to empathize: the manic self-aggrandizing assh*le or the depressive apologizing assh*le? How about empathy for the many people who struggle with debilitating emotional conditions and don't have a ranch inWyoming in which to hide out? People make such a big deal about his insult of Harriet Tubman. How about starting a religion with televangelist charlatan Joel Osteen or running for President which would just distract from important issues? Get a grip and grow up (directed at both him and those who enable him). 

Wealthy Zombies

There's a TV series called The Walking Dead about people dealing with a zombie apocalypse. Now that the government has given all that money to dead people, there could be a series called The Limo-Riding Dead. 

Religion & Pandemics

I purchase the ingredients for my sodas - carbon dioxide canisters and syrups - from a company called SodaStream. The products are made in Israel, on the West Bank in fact, which brings up issues I may discuss at another time.

Because of the current pandemic, the factory must be closed because my favorite flavors, diet ginger ale and diet lemonade, aren't available. I'm planning to write the following to the company:

I hope the regular flavors will be available by Rosh Hashanah. Otherwise you will have a lot to atone for on Yom Kippur. 

Lying

If Trump lies as much as he does, maybe he lied when he took the oath of office. His defense could be that he wasj0ust  kidding.

Surprises and Regrets

I've said a number of times that if anyone had told me 20 years ago that I'd see a Black President, legal marijuana, and same-sex marriage in my lifetime I would have rolled my eyes and gone back to smoking my illegal marijuana. Not to mention that we may very well have a woman President very soon.

Regrettably we still have capital punishment, despite how many inmates have been exonerated. It's so ridiculous that we have one state reinstating the firing squad because there's a shortage of the lethal chemicals. Maybe they should use the chemicals that murderers use on their victims.

And of course there's still racism but I doubt if that will ever go away. Look what goes in Africa and the Middle East, though in the Middle East it's more religious than racial.

There's always good news and bad news. Going to Mars might be a good thing, though I doubt if I will live to see that.

Pepsi vs. Coke

Every time Pepsi has a new ad campaign, I picture some little guy in a little room in the advertising department at PepsiCo jumping up and down and yelling out loud but to himself "This time we're going to beat Coke."

I should live so long

There's a commercial for a product for treating diabetic neuropathy, which is an inflammation of the nerves, particularly in the feet, caused by diabetes. The woman they had in the ad was extremely obese. So I thought, her obesity is the primary cause of her diabetes in the first place and the extra weight is putting more pressure on her feet. In an imaginary enlightened world wouldn't it be nice if they could have a combination ad where they say: Take this medicine to treat your diabetic neuropathy and while you're doing that, why don't you get to work losing those extra pounds--call Weightwatchers®. 

Of course in an imaginary enlightened world nobody would be obese and have diabetes. It's always something.