Of donuts and deck swings

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Monday July 31, 2017 · 10:16 AM PDT

2017/07/31 · 10:16

Republican anti-immigrant attitudes have made my vanilla American life harder.

The two Hispanic guys at Ace Hardware who knew where everything was, and who would deliver and assemble big stuff on my deck for me, disappeared this spring. I wanted a new deck swing, one I could get my aging body out of, and the cashier said sorry, they didn’t assemble anymore.

But one new guy offered to. I looked at a floor model, paid, and waited on delivery and assembly. And waited. And waited.

Until my neighbor called and wanted to know about the swing in front of his garage.

And there it was. The floor model, not a new one, placed in front of his garage.

Okay, at least it was fairly new, and my neighbors brought it over to my deck.

But the middle eastern folk running Dunkin Donuts have gone. Now I am waited on, slowly, by a bunch of high schoolers who stand around and chatter while the cashier stops to box my orders.

I used to see two employees fill my two orders while the cashier took the next customer.

The competent employees, and managers, have fled. I’m stuck with watching kids who don’t know that they could work smarter and earn tips.

I mean, okay, my neighbors or grandkids can help assemble the next grill or deck furniture I order.

But now the Republicans have messed with my Sunday morning donuts order! Enough is enough!

Trumpian Insults

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Wednesday August 03, 2016 · 4:34 PM PDT

2016/08/03 · 16:34

Trump musings:

His colleagues want to remove Trump before he destroys their future. Here is ammunition for them, courtesy of 40 plus years of teaching freshman composition.

trumpian (adj.) an immature taunt or insult; as, such trumpian invective

tangerine (n.) a thin-skinned orange

fuse (n.) refers to temper and to male anatomy; i.e. 150 pounds of dynamite with a three-inch fuse

We managed to unseat old frothy with word play. Terms like this will tempt this thin-skinned tangerine into more stupid tantrums.

Facebook and a Transplanted Hoosier

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Monday March 30, 2015 · 6:15 PM PDT

2015/03/30 · 18:15

As a transplanted Hoosier, I finally decided to use Facebook for a mild political statement.

The Pence Hoosier law is about religious power, not religious freedom. Tolerance is not enough for a religious group that wants to dominate future laws and practices. A UCC minister said it some time ago: Such fearful people see their religious liberty at risk because they want status as the official American faith and because they want to bully gays with impunity. (see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...)

I haven't had comments yet, but I'll post them if i get any.

George Will and the R's Bench

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Monday April 14, 2014 · 7:42 AM PDT

2014/04/14 · 07:42

On Chicago's Very Own WGN News this Monday morning, George Will dutifully plugged his new baseball book A Nice Little Place on the North Side, about the history of Wrigley Field. He was as earnest as a freshman presenting a research paper (did you know that Jack Ruby was a young Wrigley Field vendor? That Franklin Roosevelt was present when Babe Ruth allegedly called his home-run hit? That the first vines were a species of bittersweet?)

Then Robin Baumgarten asked him if he had any thoughts about the coming presidential election, and he came alive like a grandma with a purse full of pictures. The Democrats, he said, had Hillary Clinton and no plan B, while the Republicans had a deep bench--of governors. He even used a map: Scott Walker and Rick Snyder to the north, Kasich to the east, Rick Scott to the south. (He didn't mention the west--Brownback seems a bit of joke now.)

I like his writing. He learned his freshman composition well, and uses a graceful style. But he never learned about unsupported generalizations or replacing logic with metaphors. His bench might fit the old Indianapolis Clowns (my apologies to their former League), but they all hit shallow and to the right.

Four Illinois Gov Hopefuls Debated

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Friday January 24, 2014 · 4:45 PM PST

2014/01/24 · 16:45

Last night, Thursday 23 January, the four Republicans running for their primary’s governor nomination debated at WTVP in Peoria. The debate and live blog comments are available at the Sun-Times site < http://voices.suntimes.com/... > and at Rich Miller’s Capitol Fax blog, < http://capitolfax.com/ >.

The comments there provide more enlightenment than the debaters.

My own comments below the Orange Spaghetti Monster.

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