week seven

I have to wonder if Beagles is aware of why the gov is keeping the hammer down?  It is to save his life.  Well not just the life of Beagles, but of his hypothetical wife, his child and her children, their friends and neighbors, and all the citizens of the state that looks like a mitten.  Beagles, in the swamp is safer than most Michiganders, but as an old guy he is more at risk.  If somebody squeezed the Charmin before Beagles plucked it off the shelf and he happened to be packing corona, Beagles could pick that up along with his bargain and bring it home to his hypothetical wife, and that could likely be the death of the two of them.  If the guy who squeezed the Charmin had been out partying hardy all weekend he is much more likely to be packing than if he had to buy a couple sixers and watch Netflix all weekend. 

Ike and JFK may have taken some baby steps towards the war in Vietnam, but it was LBJ who got it roaring, and after him RMN who kept it roaring before bugging out.  Towards the end more dems than reps were against it, but there were plenty of pro war dems and anti war reps.  Years later there were some dems voting to impeach Bill Clinton and there were some reps voting against it,  Nothing like that occurred during Trump's impeachment even though his crimes were far worse.  Folks used to watch the evening news which I think Beagles does pretty regularly, and I catch fairly often and it's pretty impartial, but now one side is convinced that they are spewing fake news.  We are much more polarized than we were in the sixties and getting more so every day.

And it seems like the nation's kids will be missing a year of school.  They are doing a lot of computer learning, but take it from a ex-substitute teacher if teach isn't standing over them every second with the proverbial hickory stick, they won't be doing shit.  I wonder if we could insert some app thing where when their minds wander teach could deliver some short little shock to the rapscallions.  No no no, I don't mean that, being alone in a strange classroom, outnumbered by thirty to one makes a savage out of one.  Will this upcoming generation be like one year dumber than the generations before them? 

The seventh week of lockdown commences.  I don't know if that's the right thing to call it?  i just heard the radio say something about shelter in place,, but you don't hear that much anymore.  I just don't know.

And see I have done a whole posting without mentioning Trump suggesting we all irradiate ourselves and mainline Lysol..