Q NOTES # 558: Short Cuts 54

I began my blogging hobby in September 2007, after being introduced to the idea by my daughter's husband. When I started blogging, I had a lot of topics to write about, some of which were autobiographical in nature. As I expanded my field from one blog to two, then added a third, a fourth, and finally a fifth one, it became increasingly difficult to come up with essays on a variety of topics. I wasn't reading enough books, seeing enough movies, or watching enough football games to meet my content requirements.

Eventually I realized that the last years of the Bush 43 administration, and the political environment in Texas, were the origins of continuous rage, and I almost always had opinions on the news of the day. Five blogs became five forums for unloading anger, disgust, and sheer hatred of right-wingers who essentially controlled federal and state government.

Even limited exposure to daily political news gets depressing, and as the transition occurred from Bush 43 to Barack Obama, then to the giant orange snot bubble, I pushed myself to maintain at least some awareness of government activity and political games.

Four years of the giant orange snot bubble brought a degree of catastrophe I hadn't experienced during the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43 years. Every day produced tidal waves of insanity, chaos, ignorance, corruption and stunning evil. The founding fathers couldn't have envisioned a national miscalculation of the magnitude that put snot bubble in the White House, because the depraved motherfucker was allowed to pile outrage upon outrage, exempt from restraint or accountability. Worse, the so-called Liberal Media insisted on reporting these eruptions of toxic waste as though they were merely politics as usual.

By the time Joe was declared winner of the 2020 election, I was exhausted, and ready for the tranquility of sane leadership. Instead, the outrageous bullshit hasn't subsided because several million of the worst people on earth refuse to make the snot bubble completely irrelevant. Keeping up with the latest offenses against human decency is tiresome, so when a reason for even mild optimism surfaces in the REAL liberal media (which is almost all on the Internet), it's refreshing. Today's Daily Kos has an article that provides a little respite from the daily shit storm.