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The First Selectman Taking a Stroll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A terrible fate is creeping up on me.\u00a0 Periodically, First Selectman Cthulhu has to have his external parasites burned off by soaking in a lake-sized vat of boiling sulfuric acid.\u00a0 It\u2019s uneventful but a very long process that requires someone to supervise.\u00a0 From next Monday until the Wednesday of the following week I will be in a form of purgatory.\u00a0 Isolated from the site and forced to endure almost unimaginable tedium I shall not be able to write my posts under my normal conditions.\u00a0 Whatever output I produce will be stilted, uninspired and generated in a state of exhaustion and mental duress.\u00a0 Come to think of it, you may not notice the difference at all.\u00a0 But undoubtedly, the word count will go way down.\u00a0 I should be able to load up the Pictures of the Day and the Quotes of the Day this weekend.\u00a0 But beyond that everything will be hit and miss.<\/p>\n

Like some kind of latter-day Prometheus bound with cruel spikes driven through my immortal flesh into the adamantine stone beneath and with a cruel eagle constantly devouring my ever-regenerating liver, I will endure all this uncomplainingly knowing that I do it for the good of all mankind, or at least for the good of the MAGA Republicans.\u00a0 Maybe Trump can visit me on my mountain crag and speak words of encouragement and snide insults at the eagle.\u00a0 If he has the time.<\/p>\n

If any of you have any content that you want posted feel free to e-mail it to me and I\u2019ll make sure to publish it as a way to keep the readers happy.\u00a0 When the time of my internment is through, I shall return renewed and rededicated to the proposition that all internet links are created un<\/strong>equal.\u00a0 That they are endowed by their content creators with varying quality based on the qualities of these creators themselves and on how hard they are willing to work to make the content entertaining.<\/p>\n

As the hours slowly pass during my captivity I\u2019ll try to imagine what it will be like when President Kamala Harris is the commander in chief of this formerly great nation.\u00a0 I imagine how she will take the rostrum in the House of Representatives and give the State of the Union address and we\u2019ll all applaud as she describes the glories of her electric yellow school bus bill.\u00a0 This bill will require the confiscation of all private, gasoline powered automobiles and mandate the use of buses for all travel.\u00a0 With a $40 trillion dollar price tag it will be the boldest and most expensive bill ever passed and it will certainly convert us into a banana republic in the image of Venezuela.<\/p>\n

I was just listening to Trump at one of his rallies riffing on what a loser Kamala Harris is.\u00a0 It was funny.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019ve missed his rally patter.\u00a0 It really is quite hilarious the way he describes her failure as \u201cborder czar\u201d and her statements on defunding the police during the Summer of Floyd.\u00a0 And his equally harsh mockery of Biden is quite amusing.\u00a0 I think Trump is wise to highlight the fact that Kamala kept Joe Biden\u2019s condition as a secret from the country.\u00a0 That is indeed a damning accusation against someone trying to gain the trust of the country while running for the office of president.<\/p>\n

Today is the last day of July and I consider it the end of New England Summer.\u00a0 I\u2019ve read that measurable snowfall has been recorded in every month of the year except for July in southern New England.\u00a0 If that is so then August is early winter.\u00a0 I have already begun preparing for it.\u00a0 I\u2019ll begin prepping the snowblower and break out the snow shovels.\u00a0 I may wait a few weeks before wearing thermal underwear but it\u2019s almost time.\u00a0 Turkey deep fried on the barbecue for Labor Day?\u00a0 We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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