The Curmudgeon Chronicles

January 6 was your first warning. Roe V. Wade was your second. The third is on the way.  On MSNBC and CNN they throw around the term "Erosoion of Democracy." Doesn't sound too bad - we're used to erosion. The fate we are approaching is unimaginably horrible, so let me help you imagine. The repubs are aiming to turn us into a Putin style "Democracy," where one party has all of the power. The checks and balances imagined by our founding fathers are already fading away. The Supreme Court is pretty much an arm of the Republican Party.  Elections will soon be run by zealots who will do anything to ensure that their party wins, whether it got more votes or not. If you don't like what they're doing, just complain. Those in power won't be motivated to hear you out, because they no longer have anything to lose. States like New York and California can continue to go on as before, but eventually the noose will tighten. Anyone who challenges the establishmen

                                 A new name. A new me. I have now passed the age of 75, however badly, and now I feel the need to share all of those years of accumulated wisdom with an unwilling world. As someone who was born and raised in Arizona, spent an 18 month stint in the Philippines as a young teen, and settled finally in New York, I don't have much of a peer group. Most of my Facebook postings reflect the more normal positive and tolerant me, but recently, I gave them a taste of my Other Side, and it did not go well. Since I already have a blog account, it seemed like an idea to let my hair down (What's left of it) and let my grumpy side have its say in an environment where no animals would be injured. Here are a few accumulated gems: Don't pick up glass jars by their lids. Don't bother with anti dandruff shampoos - they don't work. Observing the matter for 40+ years, I conclude that trickle down works, but only for the billionaires. They let their money tr