Wacko Week

 Too much to talk about this Boxing Day . . .

Donald Trump won't sign a badly needed COVID relief bill without changes Congress is unlikely to make even as he vetoed a defense spending bill before sending a Christmas message to the troops thanking them for their service without irony, even as a bomb went off in Nashville.  Yet the biggest bombshell is a series of punishments for war criminals and for campaign operatives so corrupt to make even G. Gordon Liddy blush.  We could be heading toward Armageddon or something like it when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve and we try to wish each other a happy 2021 . . . without irony.

Meanwhile, on the home front, that storm that blew through New Jersey on Christmas Eve spared me a power outage (though people in nearby Bergen County, New Jersey weren't so lucky), but the mail has been so slow that our cable bill is late getting to the cable company (and, as of Christmas Eve, past due!) while I wait for a paycheck that was mailed ten days ago as of this writing.  Israel once fought a war in less time than that.  And not only did I not get to see "A Charlie Brown Christmas" this year, I didn't even get to see the 1984 version of A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott as Scrooge, which we do in my house every year, because our DVD copy of the movie got put away and now we can't find it.  We may not find it until Memorial Day.

I need not comment or rant any further . . ..