Things I Think I Might Be Thinking
WTF is wrong with America, anyway??
Now and again, I run across enough things that leave me scratching my head in something resembling disbelief. Unfortunately, I don’t necessarily know what to do with them, so sometimes I’ll save with the idea of dumping them on my unsuspecting readers all at once.
You’re welcome…or I’m sorry. I don’t know which is more appropriate in this case.
Hyundai and Kia tell owners of nearly 500,000 vehicles to park outside due to fire risk:
This is priceless: Hyundai and Kia are telling owners of their cars to “park outside and away from buildings due to a possible defect that can cause the vehicles to spontaneously catch fire even when not running.”
We’ve all made peace with the fact that gasoline-powered vehicles are essentially four-wheeled gasoline bombs. But the idea that our car might spontaneously combust at any time seems…unusual and distressing.
I don’t know about you, but I think I might be thinking twice before buying a Hyundai or a Kia. I don’t mind living dangerously at times, but courting death at 60 MPH seems beyond the pale. Also, having to park four blocks from home in case the family car decides to go up en flambe isn’t something for which I’m willing to pay $400 a month.
I’ve never understood this dichotomy, but if you’re a carnivore who suddenly decides to eat salads for a week, no one thinks anything of it. But call yourself a vegan, and people go apeshit if you happen to break training and eat fish.
Eric Adams, the new Mayor of New York City, has been plant-based for several years now. Because of that, he’s been trying to nudge New Yorkers toward eating a more plant-based diet. So naturally, many New Yorkers aren’t impressed, which is their prerogative. The press, though, has been all over Adams, looking for any sign or indication that he’s not slavishly adhering to his plant-based diet.
The press got a whiff of news that he eats fish at Osteria La Baia in midtown Manhattan, and suddenly Hypocrisy Watch 2022 was ON. Suddenly the mayor’s meal choices were considered newsworthy- as if it was evidence of some sort of hypocrisy on his part.
Who cares what Eric Adams eats? There’s nothing wrong with being plant-based and occasionally going off the wagon. I’m plant-based, and I will sometimes break training when a plant-based meal isn’t available. However, I’m not militant, and I don’t make a big deal about my dietary choice. Even if Adams does make a big deal of his, what he eats is his business and hardly newsworthy.
Why Slut Strands Are the Hairdo of the Olympic Games:
But, hey, I don’t write the headlines; I just pass them along, knowhutimean??
It’s a hairdo that’s been described as looking like it comes from a ‘90s prom. Not being a student of female hairstyles, I don’t have much of an opinion, mostly because I’m WAY too old for my opinion to matter. Let’s just say I’m not the target demographic.
Nor do I know where the term “slut strands” originated, but it has to do with letting others on the ski hill know that you’re female. Sure. Why not??
There’s a “Slut Strand Society” on Instagram with more than 20,000 members. Of course, there is.
GOP congresswoman shows Republicans can't have it both ways with Trump:
There are few things more pathetic than a rejected Republican Congressperson groveling for votes in front of Trump Tower. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), after bucking the reflexively pro-Trumpian direction of the GOP, found herself primaried by an opponent who Donald Trump endorsed. In fact, Trump referred to Mace as “a terrible candidate.”
Thus spurned and ignominiously ejected from Olympus, she felt it necessary to make the pilgrimage to the Mount of the Gods and from that place to make supplication to her constituents. Yes, she pleaded, I AM Trumpy enough to warrant re-election. Just look at how I’m prostrating myself before the Lord God on High to get myself back into His good graces.
Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to your 2022 GOP. It used to be a party of ideas- bad ideas, to be sure- but ideas nonetheless. Now it’s all about metaphorically fellating Donald Trump, and Rep Mace made the mistake of showing up without the required knee pads. So now she’s on the outside looking in.
I’m not sure it gets much more pathetic and desperate than that.
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About 30 years ago, my 4 year old Hyundai spontaneously caught fire in a Houston parking lot. I towed it home and called Hyundai. I said, “my car just caught fire in a parking lot.” The receptionist said,”let me connect you to that department.” They had a department for cars catching in fire. They paid 2/3 of what my new Saturn cost. Wasn’t a bad outcome.