FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 Watched a couple episodes of the COPS show. BITD it was sometimes interesting. You'd see people getting caught doing something illegal on the worst day of their lives (so far...) and you had the opportunity to either have empathy for them as to how they wound up in their predicament or laugh at their stupidity. Though there was a disclaimer about all suspects being innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, you pretty much knew everyone was guilty. Why else would they be on TV? The cops were handpicked by their departments for being the best, most proactive men and women on the force. This pretty much assures there won't be unnecessary beatings and/or shootings that would have to be edited out. The show does kind of leave you with the feeling that all cops are virtuous and stalwart folks, who live to serve.  But if you know cops, you know that's not true of all. There's that 10-80-10 stat that, while not specific to cops, seems to fit really well. It's applica...

 What a surprise. Another familiar face and name came up on my FB page. This was a good one, a guy named Pete (which is an awesome name, BTW) whom I met way back in the day when he was bouncing where I tended bar. More so than most Pete's I can think of, this Pete was super nice and quite friendly until it was time to be not quite so friendly. I was never able to watch, but he used to appear in karate tournaments in the early days of ESPN. I'm sure he was good, though I never even saw him have to fight a belligerent drunk. He handled things well.  So, I looked to see who else he might have in fold from the old days. One name came to mind. Cornlips. That wasn't her real name, but it was close to that. Her last name was different too, but that is usually explained by marriage, or on the lam from the law. There were no personal photos of her, but how many Cornlips could there be that also knew my friend Pete? I'm gonna say, one.  Cornlips tended bar with me. She was an odd...

Damn. Terry Bradshaw. Who knew? People will  surprise you. I've always thought Terry was likeable guy. He was certainly a great quarterback of his day. He has had a long career as a NFL analyst on CBS. Now, truth be told, I don't watch a lot of pre- and post-game shows of any sport. I'm a play the fucking game  kind of guy. We'll see who is going to win and I trust myself to figure out why one team lost. I don't need a panel of experts looking like CNN or FOX to edumacate me about the game. Terry is often comic relief on their NFL show as he is very countrified, homespun and all that. I never thought he was stupid although they long said of him that he couldn't spell "cat" if you spotted him the c and the a. That's just jocularity. Like a lot of southerners, he plays up his background for fun and profit. Look at Senator Wrong John Kennedy of Louisiana. He went to Oxford (not the one in Mississippi) and spoke like it when he was a democrat years ago...

 We know from the thousand or so clips from The Good Liars and Jordon Klepper, that there is a BIGLY number of insane and ridiculously loyal Maga persons out there. They do exist. They are  serious about their love and devotion for him. They would not  be happy were he to be impeached or even pass from natural causes. But are they dangerous to America?  I can't see how they are. Nearly every last one of them is past middle age, overweight and stupid. How dangerous could they be? I don't care how many guns they may have in the trailer back home; these are not warriors. These are stupid, gullible people with nothing better to do in life than live for the next Trump rally. They are in their own world where Trump is just short of being God himself, and they like that world very much. It is their Easy Button. They know scant little about what is really going on in politics and the world, only what they are told. Trump and Putin are strong and working together to make Amer...

 I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Facebook is a 3rd world shithole of a site and that I, and millions of others, wish that there was a site like Facebook that wasn't like Facebook.  With that out of the way, I'll tell you that I found another friend on FB! Or did I? I was on a paint thread when I noticed the name of a guy I worked with in Memphis years ago. Mikey was alright. I had actually found his page a few years ago and was pleased to see that he had gone out on his own and into business for himself. He seemed to be doing OK. Now, I could have tried to friend him back then, but I have to say that our friendship was never that serious where we'd need to keep in touch like that. I could say that about hundreds of people I've worked with. My FB is mostly family- siblings and cousins that I've known all my life, with a few schoolmates and a few women who know other family members and like my posting. Also, several deceased family members that I just c...

Though happily retired, I've been doing some painting lately. The landlord asked me several weeks back if I'd be interested in doing some maintenance-type painting. It's always a good idea to keep the landlord happy, so I said yes. He assured me that there was no pressure to accept nor to hurry through the jobs should I accept. I'm pretty damn good at it so I didn't run the risk of screwing anything up and jeopardizing my welcome here. Everything was outside too, the garage doors of rental properties he has in town. Nothing was more than two minutes away from my home! Why not?  I finished up the garage doors last month. They were pretty rough. In fact, as I drive the streets here, I see a lot of sorry looking garages, and I amuse myself by wondering if Tom owns those properties. The reality is that a lot of people let their garages go because, why spend the money? That's where you store the junk that won't fit in the basement. Maybe you put a car in there. T...

 Inspired by my muse, Maggie, I went down a Facebook rabbit hole on the slim chance that I might find my old republican friend Paul. I don't think Facebook had been invented yet when I last heard from him in 2008, and I seriously doubted that he would be on it, but you never know about people. The key for me in finding people on FB is to begin by looking for known acquaintances that you know  are on FB and seeing if they continued their relationship there. In 2009, everybody was on FB, at least for a hot minute until they figured out that they hated it. I quickly found two good suspects- Glenn and Frank- whom Paul and I had worked with that he may have friended. No go though. Found some other miscreants that I knew back in the day, including the horrible lesbian I had worked with in Memphis and a guy I thought might have been fucking the ex-wife back then. How the hell did Frank know those two?? The lesbian is stories for another day, and the guy is very unimportant to any sto...