Just to warn you, sometimes I get political. After seven years of college that culminated in a completely undeserved Master’s Degree in International Defense Analysis, I guess that’s to be expected.
It looks like maybe, just maybe, the Republican Party is beginning to question Donald Trump’s choices. Behind the scenes, there’s a general furrowing of the brow regarding the former president’s backing of “celebrity surgeon” Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate race.
Can it be that they’re growing tired of the seemingly endless supply of TV hucksters populating the electoral field? Behind the scenes, they have grave doubts—as does DT—that Oz can win something as big as a state Senate seat, considering he has no political experience, no real platform, and frankly, talks so fast he’s impossible to understand.
I don’t know, maybe that’s a plus.
I wouldn’t have thought that the gnomish, fast-talking Oz could pull it off until J.D. Vance, another archetypical Republican blowhard, won the Senate primary here in Ohio, blowing away Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons purely on the strength of his endorsement by Trump.
Just when you think you’ve reached the bottom, another trap door springs open.
Anyway, Trump has decided at the last minute to also back Doug Mastriano, a loyal “audit the vote” minion, for the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. He clearly hopes that Mastriano can drag the rest of the losers over the finish line.
On the downside (and really, there’s nothing but downside here), Republican insiders still start every conversation with “President Trump has done wonderful things for this country” before going on to muse that maybe he should have backed Dick McCormick in Pennsylvania.
McCormick is somebody who at least knows what he’s doing, but that’s never been a plus as far as The Donald is concerned.
Hey, GOP, stop kowtowing to the idiocracy and start leading. There’s a thought.
I’ve been a legal secretary for a very, very long time. It’s a job that tests the limits of my compassion on a daily basis. Why do people do the things that they do?
Well, I’ll tell you why.
A lot of it is poor impulse control. Even more of it is alcohol and drug abuse. When it comes down to the basics, most crime today is fueled by booze and meth (“I used to be a heroin addict. Now I’m a methadone addict.” — Annie Hall)
Many, many people are pulled over every day for driving under the influence. Trust me, half the people you pass on the road are drunk. I’m not even kidding. Drive like your life depends on it, because it does.
An extremely popular excuse for failing a breath test is hair spray. Yes, hair spray.
Ma’am, you did not blow a .28 (the cut-off for a DUI in Ohio is .08) and careen over a curb because you’re a hairdresser and you breathe in a lot of hairspray every day.
Nor, sir, did you fail the in-car breathalyzer because your girlfriend was in the car with you and she used hairspray that she had stored in the glove compartment for, I guess, a hair emergency?
But recently I came across a new excuse which, for sheer entertainment value, wins the prize.