Here are a few things I’m thinking about today. I usually talk about them on Facebook in long stories nobody reads, but I’m doing it here until Facebook lets me out of jail on ... I think the 27th or 28th.
I love dogs. I usually love people who love dogs, but in the same way that there are a lot of people who have kids who shouldn’t be raising kids, there are a lot of shitty dog owners. Literally.
My apartment complex has a dog park across the street. I use the term “dog park” loosely. It’s a fenced area about 40’ x 15’ where people who live here can let their dogs shit. So people stand there while their dogs sniff around the grass deciding where to poop. During that time, most of the dogs bark at everything they see, which dogs are wont to do. The owners never bother to shush them, or try to distract them, which means constant barking for ten or twenty minutes, which is pretty fucking annoying. It’s inconsiderate, especially since it starts at 5am and happens intermittently throughout the day, up until 1am sometimes. I get that dogs bark, and I’m not that put out when it happens at 3 in the afternoon, but try to have some control over your pet while people are sleeping. People who use the park are always complaining about people not picking up after their dogs. The park provides free bags and a receptacle to put them in, yet a good portion of the people who use the park ignore it. The apartment is always sending out emails imploring people to clean up after their pets, but to no avail.
I thought about all this on my morning hike through the woods. About a quarter mile into the woods today, I saw a bag filled with dog poop thrown under a small child’s bench that sits along the path. Someone took the time to bag up their dog’s shit, then just threw it to the side of the trail, right next to where children will be sitting. On the walk, I saw two more bags of dog shit tossed a few feet off the trail. What the fuck is wrong with people?
So after I left the woods and got back in my car, I noticed two women with three dogs. One was on a leash, but the other two were running free. They were all big dogs, mixed breed. The two not on a leash commenced to taking shits on the grass. Not in the woods, but in the grass in the park where kids go to play. The women then proceed to enter the woods with the dogs still not leashed. They didn’t pick up their dog’s shit off the grass. I saw a few people in the woods with dogs, all on leashes, and I hope to God that these inconsiderate moron’s two unleashed dogs don’t fight with them, or go up to them and get attacked. People like that shouldn’t be allowed to own dogs in the first place.
To be clear, it’s not the dog’s fault at all, it’s shitty owners.
Joe Biden has selected Dr. Rachel Levine to be his assistant health secretary. She is the health secretary of Pennsylvania, and has done an amazing job during the pandemic, and she deserves the appointment. She also happens to be transgender. I have watched for the past year as Pennsylvania deplorables posted horrible comments about her and transgender people in general. They mock her about her appearance, make crude jokes about her body and genitals, and spread all kinds of false stories about her and her policies and work. They are out in full force today, on posts by local news sources, making terrible and abusive comments about her and transgender people in general. They purposely call her by her male birth name, and refer to her by the wrong pronoun. These people put hate before their own health and welfare, and the welfare of everyone else. Through it all, she has handled herself with bravery, strength and dignity. She is a hero. Even though I know that Biden selected her because she is qualified and has earned it, I still like to also think of her new appointment as a big fuck you to all the hateful and ignorant pieces of shit who are ruled by blind hatred and fear. She is proof that hate will not win.
It should come as no surprise that the Trump administration has fucked up the Vaccine rollout as well. Now it looks like there aren’t enough vaccines for the people who already got the first shot to get the follow up shot in time. It would be bad enough if that meant that people would have to start over and get two more shots when they are available, but it could mean much worse news than that. You know how people tend to take half their course of antibiotics, then stop halfway because they feel better? That’s how we get antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. Well viruses and bacteria are very different, and vaccine resistance is rare, but it seems like giving half a dose to millions of people is going to up the odds of that happening with Covid-19. Maybe it won’t at all, I don’t know, I’m not a scientist. Still, it seems like it could be a problem.
Even if that isn’t a danger, it’s still inexcusable how badly Trump and his cronies messed this whole thing up. They are incompetant liars, and have already killed over 400,000 people. Still, morons love and defend him.
I’m worried about violence tomorrow, but I’m going to focus on the fact that the nightmare will be over and enjoy watching politics as usual rather than the shitshow we’ve been forced to endure for four years. Tomorrow will be a little nerve wracking, but it will be healing and inspirational, and I don’t think we’ll see anything too crazy from the fringe.
Biden wasn’t my first choice, but I can honestly say that I believe he wants what’s best and is an honorable human being. I haven’t agreed with all of his choices over the years, and I’m sure that I’ll disagree with some of his positions moving forward, but I’ll take it. That amounts to a ringing endorsement from someone like me, a far far left, pseudo communistic anarchist who’s about as cynical as you get about politics.
I realize that I probably buried the lede by going off on dog shit at the top of all this, but I’m too lazy to reorder it now. Oh well. At least I am putting the least important subject last, and the Mets should be used to last place by now.
Mets fans are all excited because we finally have a new owner, and he’s the richest MLB owner in history. He’s willing to spend whatever it takes to win, so Mets fans are now expecting to win every World Series for the next ten years. It doesn’t really work that way, but still, it feels like an exciting time to be a Mets fan. That said, I almost like it more when the Mets manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory every year. It’s hilarious to watch them and their snake bitten ways over the decades. I am torn between wanting the Mets to spend like crazy and build a powerhouse and destroy the rest of the league, and watching them spend all that money and fall prey to bad luck and injury and off field stuff like they alway do. That’s how the Mets roll. And it’s starting already.
Their new hotshot GM they just hired a few months ago has just gotten fired because he sent a female reporter explicit and unsolicited texts in 2016. I mean, in this day and age, how do the Mets not vet him properly?
To their credit, they fired him immediately, but the Mets often do the right thing. That’s why you have to just laugh at all their misfortune. It isn’t karma. They aren’t bad guys. They aren’t the Yankees, for fucks sake. They play by the rules, they work hard, and they implode nonetheless. Oh well, at least I can still laugh about it after fifty years suffering as a Mets fan ...
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