Alien invasions. Climate change denial. Children being allowed to make their own life-altering decisions. Underwear as clothing. A convicted felon in the White House. “Jewish space lasers” blamed for California wildfires. Fake money. All sorts of crap on the internet. Artificial intelligence being misused. The price of eggs. A convicted felon in the White House.

I could go on . . . and on . . . and on. But why bother? If you’re reading this, you probably have a functioning brain so you already know what I’m talking about.

It’s a stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid world out there. (That’s a play on a great old movie title, by the way.)

Old Will Shakespeare said it best: “… all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.” We’ve learned nothing from the past; life is indeed “a tale told by an idiot.” *

So why don’t we try to fix it? Let’s be smarter this year. Please??

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
1/7/25

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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

* William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5