WRONSKI WRANGLES

We may be passing through a portal that seems to beckon at the other side of it a whole new redefinition of, what? Well, just about everything.  I recently was called a "troll" in a social media thread. It was a political topic. So, if you know about politics on social media, you keep clear, or you venture where angels fear to tread. My name is David Daniel, so I'm disposed of by genetics to tackle injustice and iniquity and inequity fearlessly when I see it. [Well, maybe not those two bruisers I saw coming out of the Bagel bakery this morning. Michele is the muscle between the two of us.] An Internet troll as I read it is someone who purposely tries to incite and/or upset. Disrupt. I do have leanings in that category. Mostly, though, with trying to be a smart-ass, wise guy or comedian. [Mixed reviews there.] But in the case to which I'm referring the guy called me a troll because he disagreed with my position and I failed to be cowed into agreement. Troll. No. So cal...

Reader Advisory: If at any time reading this you're inclined to call this an apologia pro vita sua of Republicans in general or Trump supporters in particular, you friend have made my point. This is a rant about how politicians frame. Of course, everyone has a point of view. You can only look into your own heart and conscience to see whether that perspective is accurate and uncolored by prejudice, bias, or hard-held beliefs. Politicians live to get your vote. This necessitates positing a world with those who are in the right, those who are in the wrong. Winners, and losers. We live in times where the art of such divisiveness has reached a level where sides are so sharply divided that it is not at all surprising that some will literally take up arms to make their point. Who's to blame. Politicians. Us too, for swallowing their rhetoric whole and undigested. Pols are particularly adept at slanting facts, twisting them, coloring them, omitting facts that get in the way of their m...

Cup of Joe? Jumping Jehoshaphat!  Looks like the Pandora's Box has been opened at Starbucks. There's now this thing they're seeing — and dealing with — where customers are placing custom orders with an arms-length list of add-ins. We want to be right up there. Maybe with the toppers of 1. served in a Faberge Egg and 2. stirred with a piece of the True Cross.

 Define “Political Expediency”: Take for example, AOC* [please], and her Trump era moral outrage over “Kids in Cages” and “Concentration camps”. This time around, not a peep; even though there’s a quantum amount more packed like sardines; albeit, behind Plexiglas partitions —lot’s of healthy air flow, don’t you know — not that heartless chain link fencing [wasn’t it Obama what put those up?].  Currently, it’s about making it clear that there’s no surge on the border, because "they are children" ... not “insurgents”. And, while we're at it, let's throw in some "white supremacy" shade to seal the deal. I'm taking that smile in the middle of the video as a reaction to how charmed she is with her own cleverness to bring in "white supremacy" into her mix. *[Some have suggested she has Presidential potential. For shizzle!] You be the judge ...