…at least, it wasn’t the one that I was expecting to be taking. But it’s the one we all ended up on; and we all seem to have gotten through it with our personal honor intact. Thanks for keeping me company on the road, now and hopefully for a good while yet in the future. As I said, back on New Year’s Eve:
A toast: to the truly deserving. There's so damned few of us left.
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) January 1, 2017
Here’s tae us – wha’s like us? Gey few, and they’re a’ deid.
RedState is not the same without you there, but I totally understand and will honor your wishes on that. To paraphrase Mr. Spock I am and will always be… #NeverTrump. 🙂
As a fairly influential dude once said, Politics is Downstream of Culture. I’m glad to see that Moe has not abandoned the wellspring, or at least his corner of it.
Is this where I make a request for some classic Grateful Dead?
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Or .. are we at the beginning?
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Mew
I’d say REM’s It’s the End of the World As We Know It, is the appropriate song, myself. 😛
Raises glass.
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I have to say that on the political front, I’ve been pleasantly surprised on a repeated basis.
I will drink to that.
Same here, though that might be the low expectations talking.
The Bangor Maine PD posted this on their semi-ledgendary Facebook page.
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I highly recommend both.
Noticed a few of your posts on facebook/twitter were getting awfully close to the political line, was wondering if you were starting to miss the game. Of course the Perry/Franken exchange was hilarious, wish it was President Perry being sworn in today.
I don’t miss the game, particularly the parts where I’d feel obligated to give cover for jackwagons on my ‘side.’ But, you know, I still have opinions and stuff. 🙂
Losing the need to pick a “side” is quite liberating, isn’t it? I have principles, but never really felt right being an “activist.” Felt too much like a 2nd Religion, and one is plenty as it is.
You know, I’m going to relax the no-politics rule for this one post only. Seems only fair.
Johnson/Weld 2016!
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(Cheshire grin)
Yep, that was the part of “the game” I could never stomach.. the idea that I had to “be nice to” or “go easy on” some obvious idiot because the idiot happened to have the right letter after his or her name.
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Screw that!
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You know what happens if you lower your standards? You get *lower standards*… and then you get even more idiots.
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I’m happily an equal opportunity offender, and encourage others to join me in this blatantly unorthodox heresy.
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Mew
These days being *orthodox* is heresy…
This is about where I came out when the GOPe started its war on the Tea Party, that standards had been lowered so far from the days of Reagan that the GOPe didn’t know what a standard was anymore.
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So yeah, I was a Johnson/Weld guy. Not that I’m happy with the modern Libertarian Party, as such either. I wish they could figure out how to promote social freedom AND economic freedom. Instead of their current tilt toward Liberaltarianism, or Socialists are OK if they like drugs and LBGT. But the LP is convinced economic freedom “doesn’t move the needle.”
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That all said, the tears of the Left post-election have been worth the price of admission. And I feel more free today than before, if only because I can say the President of the United States is an imbecilic jackwagon without having the race card pulled on me. Hurray for advances toward the return of free speech, even as an unintended consequence! 😛
The spa heat is up to 86 degrees on the way to 104.
The neighbors across the way have their security lights on so those are dancing on the lake as I look out over the back deck. (one can only see this in the winter with the leaves off the trees.)
I have just poured the last glass of wine out of my White Haven New Zealand savignon blanc (okay, so that’s a bit of a bummer) and there are still a few TollHouse chocolate cookie crumbs to scavenge.
And on the day another president was sworn in to uphold the Constitution, I had the opportunity/ privilege today to recognize one of the 8th graders in the gifted class at my local middle school (I volunteer and once a month do a session on Con Law) who in 30 minutes identified where 24 (out of 50) items were in a Constitutional Scavenger Hunt.
And I bought my mother a pink raincoat for spring which I will mail out tomorrow.
Life is good.
I have consumed 4 chili dogs without going over my Weight Watcher points for the day.
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My 12th level cipher reached the 14th layer of the Endless Paths of Od Nua in Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian’s ode to the Infinity Engine. (YAY for isometric RPGs!)
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And I came up with a book concept centering on a Dutch East Indies trading company vessel that gets sucked, Destroyermen style, into a world featuring a race of Deep Sea dwelling, “Old One” worshiping magic to the point of high-tech practicing cephalopods (among others).
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Not bad, so far. 😉