Bemusements

 One thing I have discovered lately is that if you miss an episode of Jeopardy! -- certainly not encouraged in this household -- it's literally on Youtube the next day, or even the same day.  It's pretty cool.  Anyways, Friday I missed J! due to Stations, and today we had an emergency (of a sort) meeting at the OC regarding the van situation.  Namely, the truck we have been using from Downtown (for free) has been in the shop for nearly a month, necessitating a number of unpleasant changes in how we operate.  So we met and came together and offered up a couple of alternatives.  Not sure how they will go over -- it is Holy Week, to boot -- but it might offer up a solution.  

And yes, it is Holy Week...Fr. Joe had Mass yesterday, and it was an interesting (and good) sermon.  Don't often hear one on Palm Sunday -- the Passion of the Lord is enough -- but he made the point that the story of Baker Mayfield was akin to what Jesus suffered.  (Fr. Joe is a sports fan, and we know this, so...)  Basically, both went from hero to zero in a week; hearing the cheers to hearing the jeers.  I rather liked it, actually; pithy and relevant.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-return-of-the-old-american-right-11649430434

You know, this makes a lot of sense to me.  Nor do I exactly think this is a bad thing; I mean, certain Trumpisms -- his embrace of Putin, his corruption, his adultery -- I cannot abide, but he was a throwback to what were in some ways traditional GOP themes -- isolationism, a desire to help the people here, low taxes, less regulation -- and we might be seeing more of this, given all the "competence" Biden has been demonstrating.

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-dont-say-gay-gaslighting-driving-middle-class-republicans-opinion-1696086

My first thought upon reading this was "This is exactly correct."  My second thought was "This is in Newsweek?"  To be sure, it is a guest opinion, but... I don't think he is wrong, which is why people like Glenn Yoiungkin are winning and GOPers are popping up everywhere to run for the school board.