Musings:
•Now that T. Rump has reached that exalted position of “convicted felon,” he should be coronated in the proper fashion and provided the accouterments in which to issue his proclamations.
For his coronation, he should be robed with a bright yellow suit with black stripes about the forearms and the lower legs. It will distinguish him from lesser mortals. He should be issued black slippers in order to comfort his feet on all sorts of terrain. Lastly, he should be crowned with a wide-brimmed straw hat, because he will need it where his castle is located.
His castle will be none other than the facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where other high-ranking mortals reside. Here, he will enjoy his just desserts. May the Farce be with him!
•I learned at an early age that driving a motor vehicle is a necessary evil. Driving gets you where you want to go in a short time. Otherwise, it has a negative quality. There are the costs – monthly payments of the purchase price (plus interest), license fees, gasoline, repairs, etc. – which drain the wallet, traffic congestion, the occasional mishaps with other drivers who seemed to have gotten their driver’s licenses out of a box of a popular confection (cf. my “Confessions of a Taxi Driver” series), and the occasional vandalism/theft.
I have come to the belief that the invention of the motor vehicle was a good thing only if few people owned one: Delivery trucks, buses, and ha! taxis. Your average motor vehicle has been designed and manufactured to accommodate four to six individuals. But, most motor vehicles in use on a daily basis carry only one individual. This is not only a waste of resources, but it is a danger because most of those ones are the drivers who seem to have gotten their driver’s license out of a box of a popular confection.
Today’s society is centered around the ownership of a personal motor vehicle, from the congested city streets to the crowded network of highways. Pollution of the air, destruction of the natural world, and killing people on a daily basis is the grim result. Change is needed. (Stay tune for a future essay, dear reader!)
•Recently, Dr. Anthony Fauci, formerly employed by the National Institutes of Health, appeared before the House Oversight Committee’s Select Subcommittee investigating the origin of COVID-19. Why is there still an ongoing interest in this subject? The Republicans who are in the majority (just barely) of the House still do not believe the truth of the origin of the coronavirus as given out by the Federal government in general and by Fauci in particular – contamination by a close encounter with a rabid animal (a bat in this case), rather than a lab leak as a result of carelessness in attempting to turn a relatively harmless virus into a very deadly bioweapon.
Fauci was grilled mostly by the noisiest member of the Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. She was a poor choice of interrogator, because she has the habit of interjecting wild accusations and conspiracy theories into her speechifying. Of course, Fauci denied everything she said.
One of Fauci’s responses claimed that everyone who had not been vaccinated against the coronavirus contributed to up to 300,000 deaths. The Chas refused to be vaccinated because, thanks to his vegan diet, he had natural immunity. So, how many of those 300,000 did he personally “murder”? The answer is none. Most of the deaths were attributed to old age and/or a medical pre-condition. The vaccines were worthless, but that didn’t phase Fauci. He, the pharmaceutical industry, the public health community, the mainstream news media, and the Trump administration sought to ruin the reputations and livelihoods of anyone who subscribed to the lab-leak theory and/or recommended cheaper drugs to combat the coronavirus.
The Georgia Motormouth is right about one thing, however. Fauci and his cohorts belong in prison; he and they ought to be indicted and convicted on multiple charges of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to the maximum sentence allowed by law. The Chas would go one step further. They should all have their university degrees revoked, because they violated the first law of medicine: “Do no harm.”
Just a thought.