Assorted Stuff

ICE is abducting cops in Maine now. 
 
Okay, just one cop but still, isn’t one enough? I mean, even if you’re in the ACAB camp, this isn’t good. It’s like dueling Tyrannosaurus rexes isn’t it? No matter what, the end result isn’t gonna be pretty or bloodless.

Also ICE has zero credibility. In a mash up with cops, ICE will always be the bad guys. They’re all about collecting those bounty payments – fuck the Constitution, human rights, and the rule of law – gimme that sweet paycheck and lemme bash some heads to prove what an “alpha male” I am.

ICE dudes – nothing but micro dicked, unevolved, violent head cases.
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Best part about being old and deaf?

I have no idea who Azalea Banks, Drake, Jojo Siwa, Amber Heard or Chris Pratt are. Nor do I have an impulse or so much as a wispy whim to google them. I do understand they’re all considered to be this year’s most annoying celebrities (or some of). Maybe it was last year’s crop? //shrugs// 

I’m an adult. I don’t have to keep up with what the rich attention whores are up to. 

On the deaf front – I’m happy as all hell that I don’t know what Trump (and spawn), RFK jr., Marge Greene, Lauren Boebert, Tom Homan, Jimmy Don Vance, and Laura Loomer sound like. And I never will know. It’s ALMOST enough to make me consider the actual existence of a god or gods. 

Then I look at Palestine, Ukraine, the civil war in Sudan, and the state of the US and I snap right out of it.
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Kvetch of the day:

Entrepreneur 
     noun
: one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise

I’ve most often heard this word thrown around as a description for people like Steve Jobs, Musk, Zuckerberg. Ya know, people with money and a knack for intellectual theft. 

So, when a regular non-millionaire type person tells me they’re an entrepreneur, it just means they’re unemployed but have enough money to get by until they land in their next money patch OR Daddy makes another deposit. It’s pretentious as all fuck and gives major insecurity vibes.

It could also be someone who MIGHT have a few good business ideas but lack the skills and/or resources to make the big pie in the sky happen. They’re constantly on the make for investors and free labor. Annoying.

I suppose, if you say you’re an entrepreneur when you’re out of work, it might come off as posh, hopeful, and dynamic versus depressing. 

An aside: Over the years, Jen and I have had a lot of killer-diller ideas for businesses. Our latest was a llama and alpaca farm. We'd make yarn from the fur, sell it to knitters and have high tea with the camelids events. What's stopping us? We, somehow, failed to be born to emerald mine owning parents and health insurance is stupid expensive.

Paraphrasing John Steinbeck, socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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The lab results are in on my latest bean MRI. Doc Plotkin and crew will be meeting to discuss them next week. I hate waiting. I read through the MRI tech’s report and, OF FUCKING COURSE, most of it’s WAY over my head. Still, it appears that there’s no new growth in the area which would be effecting my wonky left calf, ankle, and foot.

I’ll have to wait until next week for anything definitive BUT at least, for now, it doesn’t look like I’ll be headed in for immediate, urgent brain surgery.

That’s good news!