Well, another day in captivity.\u00a0 But there is the possibility I\u2019ll have at least most of Saturday off.\u00a0 Surfacing and looking around I see that the consensus is growing that Trump is leading Harris in the swing states.\u00a0 So, of course that means Harris declares him Hitler.\u00a0 Well, as anyone who\u2019s been on the internet for a few decades knows when you pull the Hitler card you lose.\u00a0 But it\u2019s always fun to see someone bring back the classics.<\/p>\n
Honestly, all of the \u201cdrama\u201d in the last week and a half of the election is overblown.\u00a0 Harris is an unlikable person who comes off as a phony and an emotionally unstable individual.\u00a0 Really the only question is whether the Democrats have alienated enough of their base to lose so conclusively that normal voter fraud will be insufficient.\u00a0 And since half the polls are rigged, we\u2019re just going to have to wait until election day (or later) to find out.<\/p>\n
Well, I\u2019m fine with that.\u00a0 I just hope the Democrats are out of snipers.\u00a0 Trump is doing a rally in Madison Square Garden and there isn\u2019t anywhere to hide on that stage if someone sneaks a gun in.\u00a0 But let\u2019s assume they\u2019re not stupid enough for a third try.\u00a0 Honestly, if anything like that happened to Trump at this point, it really would tear this country apart.<\/p>\n
Well, anyway, that\u2019s where the election is right now.\u00a0 In my circles I can tell that the rank-and-file Democrats are very, very nervous.\u00a0 So, I\u2019m just ignoring all the horse race stuff and shrugging off all the \u201cconvincing\u201d arguments about why one or the other of them is going to win.\u00a0 It\u2019s mostly just whistling past the graveyard.<\/p>\n
It turns out the Yankees managed to get into the World Series this year.\u00a0 Back in the 1990s Camera Girl and I followed them very enthusiastically.\u00a0 But since Major League baseball started allowing their players to take a knee during the national anthem, I swore off all the sports games.\u00a0 So, she was watching the game tonight.\u00a0 Well, she fell asleep and I was writing my post and in the bottom of the tenth down by one run and with two outs the Dodgers get a walk-off grand slam.\u00a0 Poor Camera Girl.<\/p>\n
So tomorrow I plan to enjoy all of this unseasonably warm weather.\u00a0 I might even try to photograph some of the remaining autumn color that put on such a nice display when I couldn\u2019t shoot it.\u00a0 I\u2019ll try to find an opportunity to make a few macro focus stacks with the new firmware programming.\u00a0 Of course, everything is turning to mush after the frosts we had last week.\u00a0 But who knows with all this heat the bugs and critters might be reawakening.\u00a0 Now they\u2019re predicting something like eighty-degree weather for Halloween.\u00a0 That would be something.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll still be trapped inside so it might as well be Antarctica as far as I\u2019ll be concerned.<\/p>\n
Something occurred to me while I was perusing my Complete Shakespeare.\u00a0 The Honeymooners is sort of a reverse version of \u201cThe Taming of the Shrew.\u201d\u00a0 Basically, Ralph Kramden has set the male sex back about four hundred years.\u00a0 Over and over again Alice proves him wrong and shows him to be a pathetic loser.\u00a0 As much as I like the show, it is interesting that the Honeymooners is the template that all modern art uses to describe the relations between men and women.\u00a0 It\u2019s certainly not a flattering paradigm for us.<\/p>\n
You know, maybe it\u2019s time to revive Shakespeare\u2019s play.\u00a0 We may have reached the inflection point where giving the girl bosses a taste of their own medicine might be the best action.\u00a0 Even though I\u2019ve never had to beat Camera Girl, I don\u2019t see any reason not to reinstate the rule of thumb.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to write at depth about this in a couple of weeks from now.<\/p>\n
Well, I\u2019ll leave it there.\u00a0 Enjoy the day.\u00a0 I know I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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