Goblin Mode

Excerpt from a nypost.com editorial: “2022 was the first time the Democrats lost the House popular vote since Hillary’s 2016 loss, when the GOP prevailed by one point.” Does this give hope to registered Republicans or is it merely a blip? Of course, the mainstream media hasn’t reported it. The Dems have been on a roll since election day. Gas prices continue to fall, and the Georgia run off will likely go their way, early voting favoring them again.

NYP headline: “Charlamagne Tha God is right: Democrats think they own our black vote.” Don’t they? In 2020 92% of Blacks voted for Biden despite his abysmal race relations record.

Clever headline from newsmax.com: “The ‘Twitter Files’: Cheers, Jeers, Liberal Media Disappears.”

From an article by Anders Hagstrom at foxnews.com, edited by yours truly: “The Oxford Dictionary official word of 2022 is goblin mode,” defined as “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.” For the first time, the organization opened the choice to an internet vote, instructing voters to choose a word that sums up “the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the past twelve months.” More than 340,000 people participated. 93% voted for goblin mode, which is actually two words and which I’d never heard until today. Photo from Google Images:

I went for my annual checkup this morning. The bottom number of my BP was normal, the top 160, the highest by far I’ve ever registered. It will be rechecked in late January. I hope the blood results don’t reveal a double whammy of high cholesterol. Meanwhile, I will be checking the sodium content of grocery items. The visit was notable in another way. We got to talking about wokeness and the Doctor, practicing 30 years, revealed he’s up for his first diversity review. He said he’d never had one for competency, which bureaucrats apparently don’t prioritize.

My thanks to the kind folks who bought, donated and swapped books on this beautiful day, especially Crazy Joe, scourge of talk radio hosts, and the lovely young woman first-time customer, both of whom overcompensated me for their purchases. Here’s what sold: six books in Russian, The Little, Brown Handbook by H. Ramsey Fowler and Jane E. Aaron; So Much Closer by Susane Colasanti; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Siddhartha by Herman Hesse; Crime at Christmas by C. H. B. Kitchin; Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson; a book on Obssessive/Compulsive Disorder; Exile Music by Jennifer Steil.

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