Dispatches From the Fortress – Day 267

Here's a nice summary of where Trump's various attempts to overturn the election stand. Seems like they're just going through the motions to (a) keep those donations rolling in and maybe (b) to appease Trump's silly "never admit you lost" mantra. I'm posting that link for those of you who have, like much of America, grown bored with the whole thing and aren't following it that closely.

I've long thought that America didn't get angry enough about how the Iraq War, with all of its casualties and expense, was mounted on too many false assumptions and false premises by our leaders. I think we should be at least as angry about how much of the battle against the coronavirus has been hampered by phony claims about it going away on its own any day now, not being worse than the common cold or flu, how we won't hear a word about COVID after Election Day…

And that's about all the politics I have in me today so let me put in one of those little dividing lines and I'll move on to other topics…


I started this blog on December 18, 2000 so we're creeping up on one of those nice, round-number anniversaries. I can't think of anything to do here to celebrate but if you want to say thanks…

Obviously, I'd welcome PayPal donations to help out with the more-expensive-than-you-think job of keeping this blog online. (You may have noticed how outages have been practically non-existent since I switched to the more-expensive-than-you-think hosting company.) But I also know how things are tight for most people and they'll only get tighter for Christmas…so I'd be happy with more plugs on other social media and more questions sent in for ASKme.

And if you're doing your holiday shopping on Amazon, you can do it via my Amazon link and we'll both be ho-ho-hoing at no extra cost to you.


In the post before this one, I linked to a video of some folks doing an unusual interpretation of the song "The Rhythm of Life" from the show Sweet Charity — not to be confused with an infinite number of other songs called "The Rhythm of Life." About eighty of you wrote in to tell me that I already linked to that unusual interpretation of the song "The Rhythm of Life" from the show Sweet Charity so I've replaced it with a different unusual interpretation of the song "The Rhythm of Life" from the show Sweet Charity. Stay tuned for more unusual interpretations of the song "The Rhythm of Life" from the show Sweet Charity.