Sunday Sundries

 In Germany on Thursday, climate activists disrupted air traffic by gluing themselves to runways at two airports. "The Last Generation isn't protecting the climate, they're engaged in criminal activity," Transport Minister Volker Wissing said. Nobody said they were smart, but this is more than everyday stupid.

Based on this behavior, we are going to have to redefine "stupid". The amazing thing is that it happened somewhere other than California.

I am anything but an expert on fashion. Having said that, I think that men wearing tennis shoes with a suit is stupid. It looks like Mom only half dressed you. What are you doing, stopping on the way home to play a ballgame? Note to politicians, yes, I am also talking about you. Before I forget, Gutfeld, buy a pair of black dress shoes.

In Brentwood Tennessee, someone spray painted their wheels and tires for a new look on their Nissan Altima. Unfortunately, they did this while the wheels were still on the car. This means that in addition to the wheels and tires, the brake rotors, pads, and calipers also got painted. They didn't go too far on their first sortie after the paint job. Stopping at a traffic light and waiting for the light to change gave the now hot brakes time to gum up from the paint. When the light changed, they were unable to move the car. Thinking it was a transmission issue, they had it towed to a garage for repair. The transmission was fine, but they had to overhaul the brake system and replace all of the rotors and pads. Memo to Morons: Take the wheels off your car BEFORE you paint them.

Back when kids still walked to school and I was a prisoner at Leto High School in Tampa, we had to learn the workings of mathematics. We used pencil and paper, if you are old enough to remember that combination.  When my kids were in school, they still had to learn how to work mathematics. Their teachers would tell them, "You won't always have a calculator around to use." Now, those teachers are regretting the use of that phrase. Today, kids learn how to enter numbers on a calculator, usually on their smart phone. I have seen young people working a cash register, actually pull out their phone to calculate the amount of change due when someone gives them a penny after they have entered the amount tendered on the register. They don't know any more about doing math than the dog sleeping on our living room floor does. If I could wake her, I could probably train the dog to use a calculator. Are today's kids using Kamala Harris as a role model? "There are four letters in math?"

News from Hollywood the other day is that actors and writers are now both on strike. Frankly, I am sitting here trying to decide if there is a downside to this news. Will this reduce the lousy jokes and attacks on conservative Americans by the alleged comics on television? Will it affect the never-ending diversity on television shows?  Rather than good entertainment, we are now subjected to a never-ending medley of people who are different just to be different. I am so old that I remember when actors acted instead of delivering lectures on diversity and equity. I am tired of sitcoms that try to change the world by moralizing. It's supposed to be a comedy. Start by being funny. Work from there!!

Here in North Carolina, a guy sued the Speaker of the North Carolina House for having an affair with the guy's wife, who is also a state employee. First, that confirms that state employees spend too much time screwing around. But beyond that, I am actually delighted to find out that an elected official finally made the news for being a practicing heterosexual. Thank you, Tim Moore!!  

As the LMNOPQRSTU faction keeps rewriting history, Monica Lewinsky will eventually be a young transsexual.  Bill Clinton will be hailed as helping Monica find her place in the world.  It will take more work to change JFK's image.

A couple of months ago at a meeting of a history group to which I belong, I did a presentation about whether Abraham Lincoln was actually born in North Carolina. If this idea is causing your head to explode, start by looking up "Bostic Lincoln Center" for more on this. Taking questions afterwards, someone asked about the Log Cabin Republicans and their claim that Lincoln was a homosexual. I asked if they had ever seen a picture of Lincoln. Then I asked, "What kind of self-respecting homosexual looks at Lincoln and thinks, "Uh-Huh, gotta get me some of that!"

Truth in labeling laws should compel advocates of DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) to label it instead as DIE (it kills everything it touches).

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