Thoughts

Someone somewhere at Google Accounts must be having a good laugh.  My access to this blog is often difficult to reach.  Formerly, I could just click on, one click, and get here.  Now, there are hoops I must jump through.  I have to change my password again and again.  After so many changes, how am I supposed to remember which one it is now--as senile as I'm getting?  (Aren't we told not to write down passwords?  Or is that another result of my senility, forgetting?)  I think they are messing with my mind, expediting my mental demise.

And why do the colleges, well one of them, require password changes so often?  If the previous was characterized as "Strong," why the need to switch?  And, previous passwords can't be re-used.  After all of these years, I'm running out of things I can remember for passwords.  And..."don't write them down."  Of course, I could (and hope I won't be arrested?) and put them in a safe place.  But there's no guarantee I won't forget where the "safe place" is.  Yep, I do that with other things already.

No doubt many will take this the wrong way and I suppose I can't change that.  I wonder why Brown and Garner have become martyrs--and that's what they've become.  Thugs or, at least, thug wanna-bes
have been turned into martyrs.  Again, and I've repeated this many times, where are the similar reactions or any reactions to the many children, even babies!, who are murdered in this country?  I know, I know......  "We should expect better from our police officers......"  (Of course, then shouldn't we also expect better from our elected officials and those they appoint?  How about if they start to tell the truth, not lie, for starters?)  Why don't those NBA and NFL athletes protest all the kids being murdered?  Again, I know, I know......  Maybe there are protests and they aren't publicized; but I sure haven't seen any.  Thugs and thug wanna-bes vs kids and babies?  We sure seem to have developed a strange set of values.

One of my former students sent me a link to an article explaining that Columbia Law School is allowing students to postpone final exams if they have been "traumatized" by the Brown/Garner events.  It was sent under the heading, "Why We Have Become a Nation of Wimps."  Reacting to the "trauma" in such a way will certainly ensure we make tough defense lawyers, prosecutors, and even judges.

And, watch what the Establishment Republicans are doing.  It's pretty much as I predicted a month or so back, even after the Republican sweep in November.  They have sold out on their principles, no doubt.  They'll wonder, too, what went wrong when voters abandon them in 2016.  They are Big Government proponents, just like the Democrats.  Their only difference is who is in charge.

I had a chuckle last week.  Someone said, "I can't quite figure out your politics."  Heh Heh......