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Last Throes Of Winter

Only one week of Winter remains. In my area, the temps are creeping slowly into Springtime ranges. The snow is nearly gone.

Wow, Ow, Wow

Freaking ouch. My side still hurts at random intervals and it’s driving me bats. Just when I think I’m having a great day, ZING!

Add to that the preposterous drop in energy I’ve been experiencing and it’s a wonder I get anything done at all. The last few days, I’ve been so freaking tired. It’s ridiculous.

I’ve gotten a new increase in thyroid medication and I’ve been following my doctor’s recommendation to add Vitamin D to my daily regimen.

Nevertheless, I’m tired. I feel like I’ve been steamrolled. I could go to bed right now and sleep until tomorrow.

How can anyone accomplish anything if they can’t stay awake?

The Hubris Of Villains

You sly dog, you got me monologuing!

As a fan of comic books and superhero genre multimedia, I’m well aware that megalomaniacs have a tendency to broadcast their plans. Why?

Hubris: exaggerated pride or self-confidence ~Definition of Hubris by Merriam-Webster

When you think your plans are so righteous that you publish them publicly, that’s either an example of confidence or overconfidence.

When you announce a personal goal such as losing weight, finding your special someone or becoming comfortably wealthy, people might be skeptical but they will generally wish you well.

When you announce personal goals such as revenge and Lebensraum in your personal manifesto or announce impending crimes in the form of dastardly riddles, people tend to think you’ve got a screw loose.

Please watch this. Every last minute of it.

So, when Cenk Ugyur brags on his show that he’s helping to found the Justice Democrats in order to take over the Democratic Party in order to make it even more annoyingly progressive, socialist and utterly out of touch with reality than it already is, it’s hard not to view him as another monologuing megalomaniac.

This guy thinks it’s not much of a reveal, but he doesn’t dismiss the validity.

The thing our buddy Cenk has in common with villains both historical and fictional is the inevitable comeuppance. When you start an uber-progressive organization to effectively overthrow an existing political party from within, you’d better be ideologically squeaky clean. Cenk wasn’t. He got #MeToo‘d. Sadly, when you unleash a monster you’ve got a pretty good chance of being eaten by it.

The same thing can be said of Saikat Chakrabarti. Apparently, the Justice Democrats were founded with the intention of getting corruption out of politics. Unfortunately, the difference between political activism and corrupt wheeling and dealing is too fine a line for some people. Saikat is in hot water over his creative financing. Some people suspect that discovery in the case that’s building against him could have dire consequences for AOC.

Actually, I’d laugh my ass off if she got impeached or was obliged to resign by old guard DNC leadership but laughing that hard really hurts my sides.

Totally worth it, though.