“… isolationist, protectionist, and to a certain extent, nativist” George W. Bush said of today’s Republican party. As contrasted to the warmongering, profiteering psychopaths of the Dubya administration.

“What’s really troubling is how much misinformation there is and the capacity of people to spread all kinds of untruth,”

It’s never about the truth, only whose truth – such as Dubya’s truth that Iraq had a viable WMD program. The intelligence report that was used to foist the Iraq War on the people actually stated the opposite – but the little people weren’t allowed to read it until 2015.

Optimist: The glass is half-full

Pessimist: The glass is half-empty

Literist: The glass cannot be half-empty nor half-full. These are absolute descriptors and attempts to fractionate their definitions are ignorant and meaningless. The glass has realized one-half of its potential.

Joe Biden, American president: "Restore faith in government"

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German president: "Crisis of trust"

Free societies exist only when there is an appropriate distrust of government.

As if I didn't have enough to deal with, I bought some food that was labelled "Store in a cool, dry place."

I installed a disco ball in the pantry.

A new study reports changes to a person's ventral medial prefrontal cortex (brain) when that person identifies with fictional characters, indicative of the person incorporating the fictional characters' attributes into their own personality, to a degree greater than those of real people.

If I expect you to call me The Dark Lord, just go with it. It's legit.

Two Minnesota legislators have submitted a bill to rename a portion of a highway after Prince.

I'm not sure if my suggestion of "The Highway Formerly Known as Five" will make it out of committee.