The Briar Patch

Writers note here, I have failed. Not that anyone is waiting for these blogs to come out, but at the start of last fall, I said I would have a bunch out and be done by early this year. I utterly failed. I am about 1/2 way through what I wanted to do, and this will be the last one for a month or more as I have a lot of other things besides writing to do. So, this is just a moment of personal accountability. This is the last blog like this for a couple of months now. Hopefully, I will have a few to put out when I start again. I have said it in this series and will repeat it. The most significant divide in society today is between the wealthy and the rest of us. More so than gays vs straight, black vs white, and Muslims vs Christians. By rich I don't mean people worth a million or even a few million. That's not wealthy. In 2002, I was told by 2046, I would need a million in the bank to retire and live comfortably. Not fancy, just the standard of middle-class living I was used to. ...

 The world has gone nuts, or gotten stupider. Or it always has been dumb but social media makes it so much more obvious. This is gonna be a quick entry and all over the place so try and stay with me on this. Again sorry, it won't have great editing but here we go I made the mistake of replying to a post by Andy Taterhead. Twitter or X or whatever it is then decided, I must like that kind of shit and now my feed is flooded with this new and retarded masculinity. This rant comes from one guy calling Scarlett Johanssen mid. First as a grown ass man, please for the love of fuck don't use the word mid. Or rizz or cringe or anything a 12 year old boy would say. My issue with him calling her that is A) he is a balding middle aged man. Mostly don't be a dick and insult anyone's looks in general, but when you look like shit best just keep it to yourself. B) MOST of these guys never want to post who they are dating or whatever, I wonder why that is? I am guessing they have never ...