Furibundum

Not feeling so patriotic this weekend despite all the fireworks hullabaloo. Last night was more scary than not, really. Just sounded like maybe a busier than normal night in the 'hood around here. Gunshots and firecrackers sound remarkably similar, FYI. So I spent a lot of my time ducking, better safe than sorry. I do hope that whatever advantageous mayhem the holiday may have elicited is over and done with. Not to mention that it was plain annoying. And those "big event fireworks displays" trumpeted about town all week here ... yeah, I caught a few of those live coverages on the local news. Lame, lame, and lamer still. At least I gave it a shot. Seems to me there really wasn't so much to celebrate this Fourth of July, all things considered, what with this intended to be our annual orgiastic blowout in honor of the greatness of all things America! What a farce these last few years, each one more so than the last. Rather than those danged noisy fireworks, yesterday sho...

I'm sorry, but I just couldn't even go there. I tried, but after three or four attempts at a fairly respectable Memorial Day post yesterday, blah blah blah ... each effort invariably took a most nasty turn so I gave it up. Most likely put off course by the extreme rabid indignation I felt after listening to that pathetic excuse for a president human being deliver his rote speech at Arlington National Cemetery, "paying tribute to the troops." THE PRESIDENT: " It is a solemn reminder of the cost of freedom that the number of headstones in a place such as this grows with every new Memorial Day. "In a world where freedom is constantly under attack and in a world where our security is challenged, the joys of liberty are often purchased by the sacrifices of those who serve a cause greater than themselves ... "Today we lift up our hearts especially those who've fallen in the past year ." Indeed, that headstone count certainly has grown with every n...