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Deliver Me or Destroy?

Well, I have to admit, I have missed blogging and such the past few years.   Plenty of thoughts and issues with Covid, lockdowns, and all the other collective ‘stuff’ going on, but I just didn’t have the compulsion to write it all down at the time.   But, things have gotten a tad more normal, and I had an idea that simply wouldn’t go away for me until I jotted it down.   I still do this mainly so I can go back later and see what and how I was thinking and perhaps how my thinking changes over time on some of these issues.   Anyhow, as a result of the move, the lack of a commute, I have almost stopped listening to the radio entirely.   For one, not in the car as much. For two, most radio stations now are just bland, similar corporate radio (think Walmart) and not the great local flavor we used to get with DJs, funny local commercials, and the like.   So, my influx of new tunes is limited.   But I tried streaming some random rock recently and it happened to play a newer song from a ba

Disney, DeSantis, Divisiveness and Education (Random Thoughts on the mess)

  For certain I have not blogged my thoughts in a very long time.   It seems like more and more media, social media especially, has gone more TikTok, 30 second sound bytes than the written word of late.   So, in a way, the medium I have chosen to encapsulate my thoughts is also indicative of my age as much as what I am about to write.   I still enjoy reading very much, and still much prefer print or written word journalism and commentary to the snips and clips which have propagated over the internet like a horde of bunnies with an infinite supply of Viagra and fertility drugs.   There are times for that, but that just isn’t in my wheelhouse.   I have a face for radio and a voice for authoring.   😊 So, what possible take might one have for the ongoing feud in the media between the Florida Governor and Disney?   For me, it summarizes the problem with our culture almost perfectly.   It has pushed traditional party lines to their nearly polar opposites all in the cause of superfi