It’s been a lousy week and everyone I’ve run into has been cranky. One old grouch in my coffee klatch referred to Valentine’s Day as “a national day of enforced tribute” and spent 20 minutes bitching about having to buy his wife a $2 love card. I wanted to tell him to cheer up, then realized it was advice I’d be required to take myself and I’m just not up to it.
On top of that, there’s a National Emergency and we’re all desperately worried about crazed MS-13 gangsters (cleverly disguised as hotel maids, roofers, and poultry processors) who’re dancing in the streets of Eureka Springs, Berryville, and Holiday Island as we speak. No wonder we feel peevish and as emotionally rumpled as an unmade bed.
And there are few places to go to get cheered up. I’m confused by my Christian neighbors who go to churches that tell them to “Hate the sin but vote for the sinner.” Isn’t that, well, odd? And then there are the billionaires in businesses who tell the millionaires in politics to tell working class people that the earned income tax credit is socialism but the carried interest loophole is good for the economy – and the Christians and the workers buy it. That isn’t cheerful, but what makes it worse is the Christians and workers get mad at you for pointing it out. It’s depressing when you have to choose between giving up arithmetic or giving up your neighbors.
On a cheerful note, I took an online US Citizenship test and passed. That makes me among the 23% of Arkansans who know the name of the ocean on our western coast and the year the US Constitution was ratified. Arkansas didn’t do quite as well as Mississippi but we beat out Louisiana and that feels darn good.
That high point aside, I’m still blue because I haven’t got a political home. Republicans don’t believe in the Constitution anymore so I can’t go there, and Democrats will harshly judge me for listening to Hank Williams, Jr. sing Naked Women and Beer on my car radio – even if I’m alone.
What’s a boy to do?
You libs crack me up…your Christian neighbors! we don’t hate sin, or the sinner we fight it in our own lives, and counsel others against it. You are uninformed and ignorant to the ways of others. but at least u have a platform to scream your obscenitys from. and an audience of sheeple to listen to you. Not to mention any challenge to your opinion is banned by this paper and never put up in comments. Welcome to everyone gets a trophy america with a lower case a…
Great enough to cheer me up!
What’s a boy to do? Remain ‘blue.’ But cheer up; tomorrow’s another day. Perhaps it will be filled with YELLOW daffodils, forsythia. No one can not smile after passing those, either on foot or in a vehicle. xoxo