Slightly gaming the system to keep The Streak* alive, I am penning tomorrow’s post today. Tomorrow is booked solid. I am out of town, racing in the morning, then driving to the evenings encore, Phish at The Gorge. It will be a long day and with any luck at all, productive, successful and entertaining. Time, as they say: William Tell.
Despite all my pending personal drama, I wanted to make a couple of observations about drama on a much larger stage, that of the national, international and global. I don’t feel nearly qualified to speak of the universal, stellar or cosmic so I will try to keep it confined to what we often refer to as the ‘real world.’ For now. After tomorrow I might suddenly claim enlightenment, the advent of which I am quite sure will change everything.
Real World Local. Our two local professional sports terms, Seattle’s Seahawks and Mariners, both committed what in my estimation are gross acts of negligence. And I am not talking about NOT giving the ball to Marshawn or trading The Kid. The Hawks, and for the record I have been on a one person boycott of pro football since the days of Zorn and Largent, brought Colin Kaepernick in for a tryout last spring. Evidently he wasn’t good enough to back up the incumbent, local favorite Russell Wilson. I have one word for this abhorrent and wholly political decision: Bullshit. They had a chance to make a powerful statement and instead choose the easy, safe and slimy path of conformity. Shame.
The Mariners, perhaps even more slimy, issued a statement last week that they have ’suspended’ relations with sponsor Papa Johns’s pizza after their racist, POS CEO, again spouted off about the supremacy of white sauce on thin dough. In this usage ’suspended’ means that until another official pizza sponsor steps up to pay big bucks for outfield signage, they will continue to cash promised checks from sleaseballs inc. Pathetic.
Real World National: Your president is now overtly courting Russia. In my opinion, even worse than this embarrassing, criminal and disgusting show of cowardice and collusion is the House and Senate's complicity. Robert A. Heinlein, once said, through the magnificent voice of the heroic Valentine Michael Smith, ‘Silence begets Tyranny.’ The POTUS meets with Putin behind closed doors and congress goes into cricket mode. Treasonous.
Real World Global. We are heating our planet to the point of baking. You deny? Whose payroll are you on? Who puts the Bens on your table? Because that is the only reason why an intelligent person could possibly make that decision. Money.
Real World Interstellar. They are laughing at us.
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