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Super Thursday
So, we’re creeping up on the Spring Equinox and political theatre is in full bloom.
Red vs Blue
For the love of Almighty God, I really hope that this is the last election for the crop of mad boomers who cling to the halls of power like leeches.
You’ve got an incumbent with a thriving economy and a record of getting campaign promises enacted. Conventional political wisdom suggests that this is sufficient to guarantee him the win.
Not to be outdone, the opposition party is fielding a host of blathering morons with no actual platform. The front-runners are a senile career politician and an unashamed Communist. The senile guy is being propped up by the establishment machinery because he’s incompetent to stand on his own. The Communist is popular because he promises free stuff and people somehow believe that he can deliver without turning us into Venezuela or even Burlington College.
It is my genuine hope that the incumbent will get his second term and that the House of Representatives will flip back to a Republican majority. He’s been fighting a headwind of NeverTrumpers and slavering lefty loons for the first four years. In spite of which, he has managed to execute a number of beneficial overhauls to our bloated federal government.
I don’t know that four years is sufficient to flush out the aged barnacles. Perhaps the VP will run for two terms of his own and hopefully win. In either case, we really need to get rid of these dreadful old hangers-on and move forward with people who actually stand for something.
If the Democrats actually had a platform other than trying to overthrow and destroy our Republic, that would be great. I think the party is over. Their sole purpose seems to be the subversion of our way of life. The “moderates” use Progressivism to obtain it slowly. The “Bernie Bros” want to make us Venezuela tomorrow. Both factions suck.
In fairness, the Republicans don’t actually stand for anything but their own entrenched interests anymore either. Trump is actually more of a quasi-independent than a Republican anyway. The Freedom Caucus came in on a non-Republican wave of Tea Party fervor. These folks actually stand for something.
Looks like we need some new parties with some new ideas to run on actual platforms. The Tories and Whigs fell off. I think it’s past time for the Democrats and Republicans to swirl down the drain right after them.
Can somebody who isn’t a senile, insane Boomer please run for office? Please?
Not Beto, though. He’s mad as a balloon.
Okay, younger and not insane. Let’s have a civics test and mental health screening for our candidates. How about that?
All Bob’s Money
Remy: All My Loving
(Beatles Parody)
Bernie wants to give everybody free stuff. The problem with free stuff is that you eventually run out of people to steal it from. Communism doesn’t work. Never has. Never could. Let’s try something new, folks.
Superer and Superer
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. ~Charles Dudley Warner
I’m tackling the Sentinels debut novel a POV scene or two at a time. I’ve been putting the pedal to the metal and doing a scene and a half to two scenes each day. It takes a lot of concentration but it’s paying off.
In the original 3rd Person Omniscient version, each chapter was a collection of three 1000± word scenes. In the POV Character version, each chapter is a 3000± perspective-driven timespan. In most cases, it’s a contiguous scene. In some cases, the chapter is divided between locations that the POV Character is visiting.
I’m gaining some interest among my Facebook friends, so I’ve been sharing daily word counts. Obviously, the book needs editing. Unfortunately, I’m too close to it to be objective about the edits needed. I’ll need to engage a third party for that at some point.
I think it’s not recommended that you wait until the book is completed to engage in editing. Maybe it is. I’ll have to find out. For now, I’m ears-deep in the storytelling and that aspect of producing a novel is currently outside my field of vision.
I held off my usual Wednesday post just so I could release “Super Thursday”. The senile guy mentioned “Super Thursday” during one of his inane rants and I found it pathetically comical.