Shuffle Off
Here’s an amusing bit of karma for the left from a nypost.com article by Kenneth Garger, in my own words: In Buffalo’s mayoral primary the incumbent Dem was put over the top by write-in votes, which has infuriated progressives who backed his Socialist opponent. He has been stripped of his post at the DNC. It seems much ado about nothing. An undeclared Socialist defeated someone who wears the tag proudly.
Yesterday’s most amusing headline involved Demi Lovato’s dildo product. Here’s today’s: “Oh Tannen-bum! Dakota Johnson wants you to give butt plugs as holiday gifts.” These kids today… In a related story out of Vermont, headline from foxnews.com: “Schools will now be required to give condoms out to 7th graders.” Hopefully the measure will work as designed: prevent STDs and/or unwanted pregnancy. It’s a far different world than the one in which I grew up.
Sweden was bashed when it opted for less restrictive Covid measures. Here’s an excerpt from an NYP editorial: “If you measure excess mortality for the whole of 2020, Sweden (according to Eurostat) will end up in 21st place out of 31 European countries. Today more than 50 countries have a higher death rate than Sweden; if it was a US state, it would rank 43. Those who’ve followed Sweden’s example, like Florida, also faced criticism. By contrast, Gov. Andrew Cuomo imposed tough restrictions on New Yorkers and got a deal for a book on leadership. Yet New York deaths per capita were 0.29 percent, vs. Florida’s 0.27 percent. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that millions were deprived of their freedom for little demonstrable gain.”… And here are excerpts from an AP article at foxnews.com: “… coronavirus deaths rose by 10% in Europe in the past week, making it the only world region where both COVID-19 cases and deaths are steadily increasing.” And: “In Southeast Asia and Africa, COVID-19 deaths declined by about a third, despite the lack of vaccines in those regions.” All this time, and I still don’t know what’s right or wrong regarding this confounded virus.
To my surprise, amongst my notes I found the poem I wrote circa 1980 for a waitress at Hedges Café, where I tended bar during the day shift for about a year. How gauche that I made a copy — but I’m glad I did. I found another written about a girl I met at the Commodity Exchange, who was 17 when she began working there. She has no idea of its existence. The first is far better than the second, but neither are good poetry. Still, I’ve included them in the Curious Sicilian book file. The first fits perfectly. The second will stand alone as a one-page chapter. I wonder if I’m including it simply to draw closer to my 200-page target. Then again, it is representative of life, the mind. It is sincere twaddle and only a two-minute read.
My thanks to the woman who did a swap of Russian books, and to Wolf, who bought one of the incoming; and to the gentleman took home the Basic French instructional package containing cassettes and a book; and to Alice, who purchased one of the treasures of western civilization, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; and to Steve, the poet laureate of Sheepshead Bay, who selected two classical CDs; and to the gent who chose a book on Stretching and one on Catholicism and the Bible.
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