Key questions

Maybe they're rhetorical, or maybe you have the answer I'm looking for. Or maybe you just like my way of thinking.

There’s no rhyme or reason to this picture aside from the visual interest. This was back at the house I where I first lived with my wife.

I was looking at the notes on my phone for something and a quote caught my eye:

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely…and so does its pursuit.”

(And corollary to that: why are ellipses such a bad thing for Gen Z to read?)

So I kept going.

How about this one: “It is better to legislate morality than to legislate immorality.”

Or, “Now that we have lived through the scamdemic and seen the government reaction it lends a bit of credence to the 9/11 conspiracy theorists.”

(Somehow I come up with these in bed, since most were written late at night. I love having that functionality as close as my phone.)

“People are conditioned to be dependent rather than empowered.” Can’t argue with that these days, can you?

And regarding the noise about Project 2025, why is it assumed the government always has the best or correct solutions?

This one is a bit longer, so it gets a blockquote.

I just had some thoughts about Facebook, as in why I write most of my commentary there either as comments or links to my Substack. (Or tell folks when I go to ballgames.)

That venue has become a morass of advertising leavened by a batch of “sponsored posts” propaganda. (And the once in awhile posts from “friends,” most of whom are a relic of my political days when I was useful to them because I had a conservative blog.)

Once in awhile I get in political arguments there with someone who is a committed Democrat, enough that they scream #voteblue on every comment. I’m just dying to ask them why I should vote against my best interests.

Speaking of politics, this is under “The grand move left”:

We the Elites of the Divided States, in Order to form a new World Government, establish our two-tiered system of justice, prevent domestic tranquility, give up our common defense, promote welfare for the world, and secure the blessing of power to ourselves and our posterity, hereby debase the Constitution for the United States of America.

Thoughts of above:

“God before country.”

“Time to get back our salt’s savor.”

“I want America to bless God as much as God has blessed us.”

And there’s more where that came from.

“If you don’t want fairness in the rule of law, just say so. But don’t complain to me when you get the short end of the stick shoved up your bum.”

Not quite the Book of Proverbs, but I’m not Solomon, either.

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Some of these were probably fodder for future posts, but lately I’ve been on such a political run that I feel like I’m back on the horserace circuit. I guess it’s an every four-year thing since the most important elections where I live all occur in the same year. I may dial it back in 2028, but maybe not.

We’re just a few weeks away from the start of the 2026 midterms, right?

Okay, that’s enough. A couple more political posts and my Delaware Accountability Project and that will be sufficient for awhile. Come the 25th I’m voting and getting it over with.

Until next time, remember you can Buy Me a Coffee since I have a page there.