FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 "They are all crooks!" "The two parties are the same!" I've heard these statements in the bars and jobsites of my life, and I would shake my head at the great unwashed snarling them whenever the subject of politics reared its head. What idiot children these men were to just brush off their involvement in the political process, by writing them all  off as crooks. Well, the stupid fuckers are right,  just for all the wrong reasons. Republicans and democrats are in this together, taking turns fleecing the citizens for fun and profit. This is  by design. It is why we can't have nice things. It is why we have Chuck Schumer as senate minority leader and senate majority leader depending on whose turn it is to be in charge. That's a big clue right there. This Seinfeld's Mr. Littman is the most useless piece of shit this side of Donald J. Trump. He's a horrible character. I mean Schumer- not Littman. Both are playing a role though.  Politics is Hollywood...

 Well, here we go again... In December, I added a cable TV package to my Xfinity internet, foolishly thinking I would have access to NFL games. (Da Bears are doing well this season, and I wanted them in my home) For $20 a month I would get Fox Sports (typical home for da Bears, or so I thought) and the Chicago Fox station that carries them as well. And CBS and all that other crap. But wait- there's more! As a bonus, they would stream me the Peacock Network (a $12.99 value). This seemed like a pretty good package.  Of course, it wasn't. I don't know what Fox Sports does, but they don't do NFL games. That turns out to be FOXONE, which costs more money. I could upgrade... And the local Fox station- well, I'm not in Chicagoland anymore, but if I can get it and watch their news, surely, I'd be seeing the Bears on Sundays, right? Right? Wrong. To be Ferrer, at no time did the folks at Xfinity tell  me that I'd be getting Bears games, or any NFL teams. This was all...

 For many people, the big takeaway from the "Godfather" was Don Corleone's advice to youngest son, Michael, to "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer". It might be brilliant on paper or in the film, but it has never worked for me. Oddly enough, I was thinking about this last night while watching "Single White Female" (1992 with Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh). Well, that's how my mind works, I reckon.  On a new job years ago, I actually consciously made the decision to make an obvious enemy closer to me. It didn't work.  Enemies are enemies for good reasons. They should never be your friends. A better quote that we can all relate to is: "With friends like these, who needs enemies?" We have all  been there! Admittedly, it's a different dynamic to have a friend turn on you and become an enemy, but that is more emotionally palatable and common than being so fucking stupid as to purposefully provide care and feeding ...

Due to the wonders of algorithms, my zone has been flooded with videos about narcissists, since my last remaining sister sent me one that was germane to our oldest sister. I've never been much on psychobabble, yet I've always acknowledged there indeed are  many truths in them thar assessments. Like our oldest sister being a narcissist. Ohhhh yeah. Definitely. Short story is that I am completely out of her life, unofficially because I refused to turn over my life and finances to the care and custody of her and her husband. Officially- from her end- I'm merely belligerently ungrateful for all she and her husband had done for me. Still not sure if that's done "for" or "to". I'm not the bad guy for wanting to choose where I would live and how I would spend my money over her intentions for me. Her plans for housing me first were an apartment that would more than eat up my SS check, and a stipend from her and her guy so that I could also eat. I did not...

 Do you ever read some person's ramblings in the comments section of any internet site and think to yourself, "OMFG! This asshole could be President of the United States! He's a fucking idiot! This guy is as dumb as Trump!" The bar is set pretty low when you have millions of mental defectives who could step into the White House and continue doing The Lard's work without skipping a beat. The bar is damn near buried in the scorched earth of democracy and getting deeper every hour. There is absolutely no difference between Trump and random posters in thought, *policy* and communication skills. The entire cabinet- the whole regime- is made up of the same morons that you would find waxing pathetic on Twitter or your local paper's site. This is very disconcerting.  It's not representative democracy as the nation has kinda-sorta strived for these past 250 years. But maybe it is? Perhaps it is over now, and we have gotten the government we deserve because we'v...

 Back in the 90's and into the ought's, I was a pretty serious NASCAR fan. I had my favorite drivers- mostly Ford guys like Rusty Wallace and Mark Martin. Growing up in the 60's and 70's, I knew about cars and loved them. Still do. NASCAR races would seem to be a natural extension of that, but that world of racing was at the time, cloistered in the southeastern states. Occasionally the "Wide World of Sports" might show a race on the weekend, and if you were lucky enough to see that, you got a taste of the action in the old days of Richard Petty and Junior Johnson. That was the best NASCAR back then, like seeing Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb playing in their prime. Junior Johnson, they say, had actually gotten his start running moonshine. He was a real outlaw and a good ol' boy. This also was the time when "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday" was a real thing. The stock cars were actually (modified) versions of the Ford, Dodge and Chevrolet muscle cars that yo...