The spiritual wing of YouTube

 Every night I go on YouTube for at least an hour.  Politics, wolverines, pipe smoking.  Everything.  Some guy has studied the four alien races besides the Grays.  I didn't know we already established one alien race.  Is there a field guide?  The algorithm might think I'm interested in dying folk in hospice.  Depressing.  Back to Rogan.  Gone down a few religious rabbit holes lately.  Fr. Chad Ripperger major exorcist for the Catholic Church silenced by his bishop for one year.  YouTube says HUGE story but I doubt the Mormons care.  Thing is when you go down these theological rabbit holes it goes off in all kinds of directions and tangents like a big sparkler.  Before you know it you see if you suck your big toe you're going to hell or too many donuts opened up the gateway to Satan.  Now I myself am theologically inclined but theology by its very nature is not established fact although many people talk about it as such.  Political bubbles, religious bubbles most everyone these days is in some kind of bubble.

Pipe smoking late afternoon then a quick bite then a shower.  Set up the coffee for the next day.  YouTube then the CB and then the News and maybe part of a movie and then to bed.  Some old folk go to bed right after Wheel of Fortune.  I ain't there yet.

Don't go there

 Vivek Ramaswamy just a weird dude.  The Ohio Governor's race and the controversial attack ad against Democratic opponent Amy Acton - complicated sordid family drama which lends itself to the natural political option of you can just stay out of it totally.  Don't comment on it, don't involve yourself in it just hash out the issues.  Just as an outside observer looking in why would you automatically believe the mother anyway?  You're not even an extended member of her family and have no insider's knowledge of anything that went down.  It's all in the court records anyway.  You can publicly express sympathy and empathy for Amy Acton OR staying neutral is a perfectly OK option.  Why go there?  Aa far as political ads go this is raw sewage and that's really saying something.  Kind of says to me he's not confident enough in his own political positions and feels he has to go that extra mile.

Trump is a dick.  Why embrace his style?

How 'bout we talk about Russell Brand today

 More murkiness.  Trial going on across the pond of one Russell Brand of whom you may have heard.  Six women have come forward accusing him of all forms and manner of rape.  However we're talking about allegations that are being made 25 or even 30 years after the fact as there is no statute of limitations in the UK the way we have here.  Also in Britain you don't need absolute unanimity to criminally convict someone.  10 out of 12 jurors will suffice.  Britain's legal system far inferior to ours as we go out of our way to be fair to defendants over here as it's their life we're talking about.  It has also been widely said the judge in the Brand case at one point explicitly took the side of one of the victims.  Wouldn't happen over here just sayin'.  Apparently these women only came forward after some TV documentary aired over there.  Trauma takes time but that's taking it to another level.  We have more of a structure to our legal system even if it ain't perfect. 

Brand was what you'd call a male nympho but has since made a rightward turn and publicly turned to God.  Back in the day we're not talking about classical stylized sex.  Anywhere anytime would do.  Mop room whatever.  The late Limbaugh once made a point with which I tend to agree.  He said if your whole life revolves around sex you're going to wind up in trouble someday and I paraphrase.  Once in a while I agreed with the man.  By Brand's own admission his sex life was what you'd call unsavory and I would add if you're in a perpetual state of horniness as Brand was you're practically inviting murkiness into your own life hence the court case least as I see it.

Of course we'll probably be talking about TRUMP in no time.  What else is there?

Batshit Crazy

 According to accounts President Trump asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai to rename the Atlantic Ocean the Trump Ocean.  Pichai reportedly said they can't do that because oceans border multiple countries.  I probably would've just said you belong in a nursing home in the Alzheimer's wing and hung up.

TWO MORE YEARS OF THIS?!?!

Some situations are just plain murky

 The Case of the Cornell 7 as it's come to be known.  The frat party from hell.  The "Trauma Takes Time" movement.  OK so after going down this rabbit hole a little bit here's where I come down as a conservative.  Even if a young woman goes to a party and agrees to use drugs and alcohol and consents to having sex with more than one guy things can cross the line in a hurry.  Consent may not be given every step of the way.  One version of the events makes the alleged victim Jane Doe look bad.  Another version makes the  Cornell 7 look bad.  Yet another version makes everyone look bad.  Murky at best.

Does anyone go to college or university to learn anymore?  Costs a pretty penny.

Why do old houses appreciate over time?

 According to my real estate report my house was built in 1920 yet I still pay A LOT in property tax.  The math makes no sense.  Everything else depreciates over time.  They say once you drive a new car out of the showroom it starts to depreciate.  I think I got the housing thing figured out though.  Your home equity benefits banks.  They then offer you HELOCs and Home Equity Loans.  I get these in the mail all the time.  This would partly explain why my Yonkers property tax seems to go up a little bit each year instead of going down as you might expect.

There is an old old saying.  Follow the $$$$$$.

How woke got out of control

 Formerly PC or social correctness now it's just Woke.  Recently rewatched Last Tango In Paris a couple of times and then googled as part of my informal film studies.  Exaggerated commentary infected by woke all zeroed in on the butter rape scene and how it ruined actress Maria Schneider's life.  The woke crowd acted like this was a literal surprise sexual assault by Marlon Brando and orchestrated by Director Bernardo Bertolucci.  It was all in the script albeit tweaked late in the day and anyway even the NC-17 version is not hard-core with the actress just walking around in the nude a lot.  I doubt the woke critics have even seen the movie for the most part as the character of Jeanne shoots Brando's charactet Paul in the end make of that what you will.  No context as usual so the woke movement has only gathered steam and power over the years and moved on to other things.  Used to be if you were a grown adult it was your right if you wanted to become the other sex even if the rest of us didn't understand it now we got trans surgery for minors and you're somehow a horrible person if you have issues with this.  FF to the absolutely tragic Lindsay Clancy case.  Somehow it became the default position and somehow proven that Lindsay Clancy had absolutely no awareness that she was strangling her three young children during the 18 minutes it took her to complete the act aka post-partum psychosis.  Lone holdout juror was relentlessly attacked for acting completely within our system but disagreeing with the rest.  Most recent case of woke run amuck Shane Gillis' SNL gym joke which you all know by now.  Shane now contributing to rape culture and making it harder for ladies to go to the gym.  Now there are left-wing comedians out there, middle-wing and right-wing ones each with their own styles and takes.  They tackle a wide variety of subjects and make all kinds of social observations.  Shane didn't tell a Holocaust joke.  Free speech move on laugh or don't laugh you have a remote.  This is a long one for me but we've reached a crescendo of absurdity.  What's the next one gonna be and there will be a next one.

Maybe it's all Brando's fault;)