Month: March 2016

09:58 – Barbara hit the gym this morning. We worked hard yesterday getting stuff moved up to the attic, installing shelves and tool racks in the garage, and so on. We had a nice sunny day for it, with a high around 70F. Today is to be the same.

I don’t understand why all the news outlets are wasting so much space on the primary caucuses and elections. It should be clear to anyone by now that voters are utterly fed-up with more politics-as-usual. They’re ready to throw out the baby, the bathwater, and the tub itself. How else could anyone explain how well lunatic-fringe psychopath demagogues like Trump and Saunders are doing? The only thing they have going for them is that they’re not more-of-the-same, or at least they claim not to be. But with the possible exception of Cruz, not one of them has a shred of integrity. Cruz may be different. I believe that he’s a man of his convictions, unafraid to stand up and speak for them no matter how popular or unpopular they may be with the electorate or the party hierarchy. Unfortunately, I don’t share his convictions on many issues. But at least I believe that he means exactly what he says, which is refreshing for any politician.

09:42 – We made a trip down to Winston yesterday. Barbara dropped Colin and me at the house and then left for a haircut appointment and a trip to the dentist. Colin and I packed stuff up while she was gone and we then loaded the stuff into the Trooper and headed back to Sparta. She’s off to the gym and supermarket this morning, while Colin and I await the mail pickup.

A lot of my libertarian-leaning friends vote Republican, on the theory that a Libertarian has no chance of being elected while a Republican is likely to be at least marginally better than a Democrat. And I think that’s generally true, in the sense that I’d far rather have a Cruz or even a Rubio as president than Clinton or Sanders. But this year I don’t think that’s going to be the choice. I’m afraid it’s going to be a choice of Trump or Clinton, and I really don’t think it’s safe to assume that Trump would be better than Clinton. He may in fact be even worse, as hard as that is to imagine. Trump, like any psychopath/politician, will SAY whatever he thinks voters want to hear. What he actually DOES once he’s elected would almost certainly bear no resemblance to what he promised. I mistrust Trump at least as much as I mistrust Clinton, and that’s saying something.

10:42 – We’re working today on getting the downstairs better organized and on making up chemicals and filling bottles for science kits.

More primary elections today, none of which matter in any real sense. No matter what, we’re going to end up with two psychopaths in the November election.