Monday's Mind-Bending Minutiae Menagerie

 "There are only three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." W. Somerset Maughan 

“When things turn south for the administration, Barack Obama—a sagging Netflix’s $50-million ‘idea man’—usually emerges from one of his three mansions in Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard, or Kalorama to lecture clingers and deplorables on various threats they pose to the anointed.”– Victor Davis Hanson

At 6:00 AM, my bowl of Raisin Bran Crunch was disturbed by a screaming noise from my flip phone in the living room.  I ambled over to find an amber alert for a missing 17-year-old in Winston Salem. First and foremost, no one flees Winston-Salem and comes to Caswell County. I deleted said alert. This evening on the news is the face of a 17-year-old who faked their own disappearance. Wow?

In 1861, Abraham Lincoln did not want the southern states to leave the Union. He raised an army and sent it south to bring the seceding states back into the Union against their will. His armies killed, wounded, burned, looted, pillaged and raped their way across the South over a four-year period. Today many Americans hail Lincoln for "saving the Union." In 2022, Putin is trying to bring Ukraine back into the Soviet fold. Like Lincoln, he sent an army there to bring Ukraine back to Russia. So why was that technique good for Lincoln, but is a war crime for Putin?  Was Lincoln a war criminal? Asking for a friend.

There are those who want us to commit to using our military against Russia if they use nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons against Ukraine. You're shitting me, right? You want to end civilization to punish Russia for attacking Ukraine? Why would we do this to save the child sex trafficking capital of the world? Only in Ukraine is money laundering considered a career field. Yet we all must die to save them? Are you serious? It is just another backwater corrupt government.  Think of it as Illinois or Louisiana goes to Europe. 

Just for the record, we used chemical weapons in Vietnam. My brother-in-law died as a result of handling those chemicals. Thousands of other American soldiers have died from those chemicals and thousands more will. Tell me again about how evil other nations are. 

All of our news about the war in Ukraine is coming from one side of the battlefield. That was the same thing that happened in Vietnam and look how accurate that reporting turned out to be.  

Baruch Spinoza said it best, "No matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides."

And in unrelated-to-Ukraine news, Biden had two scoops of chocolate chip this afternoon as he sniffed three little girls.