Seems like there was a lot of snow around here not long ago. Anyone know where the snow went?

Seems like there was a sight more purpose in my being not very long ago. Anyone spot an unleashed purpose running around?

Seems like there was once a good deal more respect and decency and intelligence in the world, heck, in our communities, not so very long ago. Anybody happen to know when all this narcissism crept into everyone?

Seems like people used to love this country and all that it once stood for, or might one day more readily and openly stand for, than any other country in this world. Who knows when it became cool to bash just about everything Ameican?

Maybe the big, successful guy is just an easy target. Maybe it’s just easy to sit back and blame everything and everyone else for what you and others should be accepting as your own responsibility. Nah…

It just ain’t your fault.

And I sure as hell know that it ain’t mine.

It’s gonna rain today on a day when my kids are supposed to be enjoying their outdoor school field trip to an amusement park. Wonder how much fun that will be.

But that ain’t their fault and it ain’t the school’s fault and it ain’t my fault or your fault.

Nope. It just plain sucks. For them at least.

Why them, why now, why today? Who knows- who ever does? Haven’t I asked that same question in the past? Many times??

Not raining yet but it will. Just a question of when and how much. I feel bad for my kids and their friends but kids have a way of finding fun even when it seems to be running the other way. Good for them.

Am I a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, and Islamophobe, a climate denier, an income inequalitist, a white privilegist, an imperialist, a selfish nationalist, a one-percenter, a pro-lifer, a Christian, an old white Republican, a stay-with-the-family dad, an unequal opportunity employer, an anti-minimum-wage dirty old capitalist, or just a horrible person all around?

Maybe I’m just one of those anti-Obama and anti-Hillary guys who hates them because of their color and/or gender. (Why all the hate bro?)

Or maybe I just happen to think that they are both dangerous and destructive political heads (note that I did not call either a leader) who also seem to be self-absorbed elitists their very selves.

It ain’t the color of the skin but maybe it could be the content of their character and their policy.

Is there anything more despicable than all that surrounds and has emanated over the years from Hillary Clinton?

Oh, yeah, there is: the media that surrounds and embraces and seeks to coronate her. No matter what.

Back home I worry about the rain ruining the day for my kids and their classmates but there is so much more serious to worry about it seems to me.

If I can just erase all the biases that the liberals have placed upon me then I might just be able to have a care other than total capitulation but, well, not quite yet.

Not while I continue to take a breath on this sweet old earth and within the crubling borders of this still great country.

I can be, I might be, the last man standing but somehow I doubt that I will be. There are just too many of us who still get it and still give a damn about things other than the climate changes that, today, bring the rain to us here in Pleasant Valley.

So damn ridiculous out here in the netherlands- much rather be in Baltimore. Wouldn’t you?