You say you are fed up with the irrationality of present-day life?

Would you like to return to a time when production was rewarded and special-interest groups were not lionized and subsidized simply for being out of step with traditional thinking?

Are you weary of the muddying of basic truths such as right or wrong, good or evil?

Hope may be on the way, Bunky.

I credit my cousin for inspiring this blog post. During a phone call last night, he mentioned seeing a television show warning of artificial intelligence and its potential effect on us humans.

Artificial intelligence falls into four categories. We currently have Reactive AI, in which computers are programmed and respond the same way each time to identical input. Chess playing programs are an example.

Next up the AI ladder is Limited Memory AI, in which programming is supplemented by real-world input. Think of self-driving cars and their many foibles as an example of how imperfect this AI is to date in real-world situations.

Not yet on the table are the final two examples — Theory of Mind AI and Self-Aware AI.

With Theory of Mind, decision making by the digital mind means recognizing and including human-like emotions.

With the last, Self-Aware, needs, wants and emotions enter the picture and make the Self-Aware AI entity more humanlike, although operating at a much higher level of intellect.

Brilliant minds such as Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and various AI experts went on the record with an open letter in 2015 warning that AI, for all its potential benefits, must always be kept under the control of humans, lest humans become unnecessary and deemed to be candidates to be eliminated from the equation.

The standard thinking by the non-enlightened has been that we humans can always shut off the AI machinery, be it in stand-alone computers or deployed in machines such as robots or vehicles.

But wouldn’t you think that all-knowing AI would be ready for that and take measures to prevent us from pulling the metaphorical plug?

To date, this is the stuff of science fiction movies. But might we live to see the human race trying to co-exist with AI? I’m thinking that is so.

For all the worries about a potential dystopian future for humans, who would plod along in servitude to superior AI beings, my cousin came up with a potential bright spot.

Assuming that the AI entities are supremely logical, they likely would come down hard on unproductive, highly disruptive far-left types.

It’s hard to imagine AI logic agreeing that decreasing food or fuel output by government decrees is beneficial to humankind, as so many socialist Democrats seem to believe.

Similarly, I’m thinking an AI unit might deem leeches such as Hunter Biden and his non-productive ilk as expendable. Worker bees in government bureaucracies designed to hamstring business and industry, look out!

So, too, pompous college professors and public school teachers who believe their main task is to indoctrinate politically instead of teaching, would seem to have little to offer a logical world ruled by AI.

The AI approach to gender confusion, race-baiting and poverty pimping likely would be that we need none of these.

Politicians in general likely would not be thought of favorably by a truly self-aware AI entity.

If the rise of Artificial Intelligence holds out promise of returning logic to the world, I’m all for it.

If that AI experiment runs away and devolves into totalitarian control of the masses, well, aren’t we already headed down that path with human despots operating under the guise of government?

And at least an AI president presumably could ride a bike and wouldn’t need a cheat sheet to tell it how to enter a room, sit down in a chair and talk to the audience.

While Clueless Joe Biden laments 9mm handguns that he claims vaporize the lungs of those shot with the weapons, and campaigns to put the clamps on legal gun owners in general, Dutch farmers are upping the armament ante in their anti-government protests.

These farmer protesters are aggrieved by their government going environmentalist wacko and looking to limit nitrogen in fertilizers, thereby reducing the effectiveness of those fertilizers, and putting an estimated 30 percent of the farms in The Netherlands out of business.

The government also wants substantial reductions of farm animal herds because of their manure emitting nitrogen oxides – the stink in manure.

Farmers have been using tractors in their protests, blocking food distribution centers to bring attention to their plight.

In predictable fashion, in at least one instance police fired on a farmer in his tractor.

The Dutch farmers have a response. An online video showed a military tank (reportedly of World War II vintage) rumbling off a flatbed trailer and down a road, supposedly to block a distribution center and be impervious to trigger-happy police.

There must be a lot of Bidens running things in The Netherlands, the kind of people who think you can shut down producers without any effect on supply and prices.

Clueless Joe has tried that with energy, attempting to regulate fossil fuel producers into oblivion and then being stunned by rapidly rising energy costs.

Now the Clueless One blames Putin and implores the domestic energy companies to reduce their prices, which anyone with a passing acquaintance with Econ 101 knows would only create artificial demand and shortages.

The way to lower prices in the traditionally effective way economically would be to increase supply with further exploration and production. Then prices would fall.

But that would alienate all Clueless Joe’s socialist greenies, so he can’t/won’t do that.

I await Dutch bureaucrats first blaming Putin for food shortages or soaring prices — just because — and then urging farmers magically to produce more food with fewer farms and animals and less fertilizer.

Food prices will skyrocket in The Netherlands if the farmers are hamstrung legislatively, and the firms providing food to the population will be cast as the bad guys for charging more.

I happened to catch an old political clip today. As far back as 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater was warning that it was time for the people to put the government back in the role of servant, not master.

All these years later, that has not been accomplished. To the contrary, our government, staffed with unelected, all-powerful bureaucrats, is running more roughshod over the people than in the days of King George.

Recent Supreme Court decisions have tried to rein in that, but it is too little, too late.

What’s going on in The Netherlands needs to come soon to a town near you for overreaching government here to get the message.

Just yesterday in this space we wondered if Biden voters were honest enough to feel buyers’ remorse, having elected a man seemingly destined to go down in history as among the worst and least-qualified ever to hold the office of the presidency.

That was written early in the day. By days’ end, anecdotal evidence had rolled in that Biden voters either see no problem and are ready, willing and able to double down on their support of the cognitively impaired one, or they in general see Republicans as inherently evil and Biden as merely an unfortunate victim of events that have made him look bad in office.

I find it telling, though, that the latter crew doesn’t want Biden back for a second term.

Example one: While at a picnic (NOT FOR A COUSIN’S BIRTHDAY, ALTHOUGH WE DID END UP SINGING TO HIM!) a typical liberal type was there, picking verbally at a conservative. I took advantage of the opening to pose my Biden voter buyers’ remorse question.

No, the man does not regret his choice. Instead, he is pleased with Biden’s performance. All is well. He’d vote for him again. And again and again and again as was the case with many “voters” in the past presidential election.

This Biden voter (apologist) was unswayed by raging inflation, investment markets plumbing historic lows for the first six months of a year (worst since 1970 in the case of stocks, worst since 1788 in the case of long-term government bonds), the botched Afghanistan exit and all the other failures already in the Biden regime’s run.

Showing his intellectual depth, this guy said Biden, for all those problems, still was better than Trump. Trump would be the president who presided over strong investment markets, modest inflation, energy independence for the United States, and zero adventurism by Russians or Chinese.

Yeah, Biden’s much better than Trump.

But this man suffering from partisan blindness regarding Biden is far from alone among the masses.

Example two: The local Democratic propaganda organ “newspaper” ran not one, but two letters to the Readers’ Forum on the day of my previous blog post.

The first claimed to be an independent voter, which is code for a liberal who loves to flaunt independent status, but votes straight Democratic in every election.

Ask the next independent you encounter, or Democrat for that matter, to name the last Republican candidate for whom they voted. You will hear crickets.

Meanwhile, a Neanderthal Republican like me can tick off voting for a Democrat for county commissioner most recently, and through the years voting for a Democrat for governor and U.S. House, among others.

I also have withheld votes for disappointing Republicans such as Arlen Specter and Pat Toomey, who walked and squawked more like Democrats.

I did not vote for carpetbagger Republican senatorial candidate Dr. Oz in the past primary, and will not vote for him in the general election.

But our “Independent” letter writer spewed anti-Trump sentiment and also had a lengthy list of politicians with whom he disagreed. Curiously, all are Republicans.

This man also is for gun control, although he made sure to mention he owns “a few guns” and is a former military man.

Allow me to remind that formerly being in the military does not equate to automatic sainthood. Some notable examples: Presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was an ex-Marine. Adolf Hitler served in the Bavarian Army. William Calley of My Lai massacre infamy also was a military man.

This writer admitted to being “not really thrilled” with Biden and feared Republicans could win the presidency in 2024, which he seemed to equate with the nation losing its democracy.

Such an independent and confused thinker!

Another writer, a familiar name who bores the masses with his political missives as frequently as the paper’s reader-submission limits allow, presented a laundry list of Biden shortcomings, but attributed them to failures of others or simply to bad luck.

Biden is painted as a latter-day Job of Biblical note and for all the failures on his watch, Biden is portrayed as a good guy because ostensibly he still goes to church regularly. Does Biden’s staff give him a crib sheet, a la his press conferences, telling him to enter the church, sit down in a pew, look at the pulpit?

But even this Biden supporter wished out loud that Biden not run for re-election in 2024 and instead yield to a younger more vibrant candidate, which would mean almost anyone still on the right side of the grass.

To sum up the last letter: Biden’s doing a great job, but I sure hope he doesn’t run again.

Maybe the reality is sinking in for some.

By now I’d like to think Biden voters are suffering from crippling buyers’ remorse.

Not that they’d admit it publicly, of course. But deep in their lost souls they must be thinking they made a terrible mistake.

Can they really be comfortable with $5-a-gallon-gas, not to mention runaway prices in various other necessities such as housing and food?

Can they ignore the decline in their investments as the policies of the Biden regime have tanked stock and bond prices at the same time? Stocks suffered their worse first half of a year since 1970. Government bonds of 10-year duration haven’t begun a year this poorly since . . . 1788!

Can they be pleased now that it seems likely when measures of the economic quarter that ended June 30 come out they will show the nation to be in a recession as defined by consecutive quarters of contraction?

Can they feel good about the ham-handed foreign policy that has us on the brink of an ongoing proxy war with a nuclear power turning into a full-on, face-to-face confrontation?

Can they accept the open-border policy that has produced crisis in the form of massive deaths due to human traffickers?

The list could continue, but you get the point.

Ronald Reagan famously asked the electorate in 1980 if the voters believed they were better off than they had been four years earlier, when they elected Jimmy Carter?

The answer, as provided by Reagan’s landslide victory, was a resounding no,

In many ways our current situation is much worse than in 1980. For all his leadership weakness, Carter was at heart a decent and honorable man. It’s hard to argue the same for Biden.

Carter’s mental acuity was, and seems to still be, superior to that of Biden.

The nation in 1980 was suffering from the newly coined term stagflation, meaning a witches’ brew of inflation and economic stagnation, but still had relatively low debt both private and public and so had resources to deal with the problem. That is not the case today.

In 1980 the nation had yet to be balkanized into hard-core tribes divided by politics, religion, sexual orientation, race or whatever convenient wedge progressives use to foment unrest.

Maybe you are better off than before Biden took office, but I am not and I have a lot of company,.

Biden voters, and those gifted vote counters who conspired to place this human-sized vegetable in the Oval Office, are as daft as Biden if they cannot concede, at least to themselves, that their man is an ongoing train wreck of a president.

American writer and humorist Mark Twain was not big on statistics, lumping them in with lies and damned lies in a list of falsehoods.

And, admittedly, statistics – particularly averages or percentages – can mislead.

Consider a very small country with just two people, one of whom earns $999,999 a year and the other earning a mere $1 a year.

A statistical type could mislead by quoting the nation’s average income at $500,000, which while correct doesn’t paint an accurate picture of income distribution.

Similarly, beware of fastest-growing claims. A pathetically small business netting $1 a year, clears $2 the next year and might trumpet a 100 percent gain in profits.

Meanwhile, a company clearing $100 billion a year goes to $101 billion the next and can only claim a one percent increase.

But which company is truly experiencing more growth?

It is up to the individual consuming the statistics to make the call on their significance and be enlightened enough to dig beneath the surface.

Democrats of late don’t even bother to massage statistics to make their cases, instead just flat-out misstating facts.

The January 6 committee, already a comedic exercise in political spin under the guise of serious investigation, trotted out a star witness who immediately has come under fire for playing fast and loose with the truth.

What this witness testified to was what someone allegedly told her about Donald Trump lunging to take the wheel of his limo and demanding to be taken to the Jan. 6 demonstration.

I doubt this is physically possible considering the layout of such conveyances. I lump it in with the nonsensical report that a fellow Penn State beat writer once made about Joe Paterno allegedly leaping from his car to confront a woman who had run a stop sign on campus.

The major problem with this “news” was that Paterno was nursing a broken leg at the time and needed a lengthy period of time to exit his car – I had witnessed this on several occasions personally.

To allege that he leaped from his car was a bad start to the story and cast serious doubt on anything that followed, sort of like Trump supposedly lunging to take the wheel of the limo.

Beyond the obvious physical doubts that this occurred, there also is the matter of him being the President at the time and able simply to order the people to convey him to the demonstration if that was his desire.

Continuing on Trump and the Jan. 6 star witness, even if this underling was accurate, her testimony almost never would be allowed in any court of law because it was hearsay. One can’t testify to things described to them by another.

It makes sense since even eye witnesses often provide conflicting reports of incidents due to stress and various human frailties.

When the “eye-witness” report comes secondhand, the problems multiply.

But the Jan. 6 clowns have an even bigger problem with their star witness. Various people, including legitimate reporters from such outlets as NBC, not exactly a Trump fanboy base, are reporting that those in the presidential limo are willing to testify under oath that none of this happened.

Do not expect the Jan. 6 committee, in its search for truth, to call any of those first-hand witnesses.

The star witness that the Jan. 6 committee lynch mob was only too glad to hear also is reported to have claimed authorship of a note that another says he wrote.

Credibility? She has zero, except to a bunch of partisan hacks on another witch hunt.

Back in my days as a journalist, I told people who tried to mislead me that it irked me on two levels: 1. That they fibbed and 2. That they thought I was stupid enough to run with it.

I made it my business to expose their chicanery to the readership. I still remember a note left for me by the daylight news assistant in sports, one of those pink forms saying that a news source had called at 10 a.m. or some such time to complain about a story I’d written and left the following message: Thanks for making me look like an asshole.

The guy got a callback immediately from me, pointing out to him that he’d made himself look like an asshole by trying to play me for a sucker. I’d just made sure to expose him as a liar to a much wider audience. I also told him if he ever tried to mislead me again, he’d get more public exposure.

To his credit, as far as I know he got the message and was honest with me going forward.

I can only dream of a time when the American people become fed up with being lied to, regardless of the source, and begin to exact revenge on the liars.

It must be so easy to be a Leftist Democrat.

Just kick your brain out of gear, regurgitate one-size-fits-all talking points, chant vapid and insipid mantras and generally whine when things don’t go your way.

Also be sure to be hypocritical to the bone – as in we do it and it’s OK, you do it and it’s heinous beyond words

Of late the political zombies murmur insurrection or Russia incessantly.

Dare we turn the tables on them? Why yes, we can.

Maxine Waters, the intellectually challenged Democratic member of the U.S. House from California, reacted to the Supreme Court decision on abortion with “To Hell with the Supreme Court! We will defy them!”

Insurrection. Insurrection. Insurrection.

Here was a member of the government calling for rebellion and outright refusal to follow the law. She’s gone far beyond anything Donald Trump is alleged to have done to spark the Jan. 6 protests.

Throw bartender-turned-congresswoman AOC into that Waters insurrection pot. ‘Twas AOC who took to the microphone at a protest to call the court’s abortion decision “Illegitimate.”

Actually, AOC, most of the babies aborted would fall under that illegitimate label, the product of loose sexual conduct and morning after regret.

Insurrection. Insurrection. Insurrection.

When might we expect the made-for-TV house committee inquiry into the words of these two loose cannons? Maybe if and when the House flips in mid-term elections?

Meanwhile, on the Russia, Russia, Russia front, the Washington Examiner (D.C.’s newspaper that actually practices investigative journalism when Democrats might be implicated) comes out with a story of how Clueless Joe Biden was sending money to son Hunter at a time when Hunter needed dough to cover costs for using “escorts” with Russian connections.

Russia. Russia. Russia. Clueless Joe is in Putin’s pocket.

Hunter’s laptop from Hell just keeps giving to all who see through the curtain of Democratic hypocrisy.

And then there is Chicago mayor Lori Light(weight)foot plumbing the depths of her intellectual ability at a Pride gathering by screaming “pluck (actually the F-word that rhymes with pluck) Clarence Thomas” as a critique of the Supreme Court’s abortion decision.

If Lightweight actually could make that happen, at least Thomas would not need an abortion to deal with the consequences.

Meanwhile, Nancy “Marie Antoinette” Pelosi, was caught giving a solid hip check to the daughter of a newly elected Republican member of the U.S. House during a swearing-in ceremony.

Social media outrage from the political right ensued.

Pelosi’s staff swung into action, explaining that Pelosi shoved the child aside so the girl could be seen better. Yeah, that makes sense (sarcasm!).

Meanwhile, Pelosi or her staff won’t comment on the DUI arrest of Pelosi’s husband, calling that a personal matter.

Insurrection, Insurrection. Insurrection? Or Russia. Russia. Russia? Perhaps Hypocrisy. Hypocrisy. Hypocrisy?

More like Botox. Botox. Botox — leaking into the brain of Marie Antoinette.

This was a tough week for the flaming liberals who would use the U.S. Constitution as little more than a door mat upon which to wipe their metaphorical feet.

Whether by dint of politically motivated activist judges operating at lower levels, or through over-reaching state and local governments – always in liberal enclaves it must be noted – the Constitution was seen as a general guideline, open to wide interpretation in favor of denying those rights to political opponents.

But the Supreme Court knocked down a New York law that required proof of special need in order to receive a concealed carry permit for a gun.

Justice Clarence Thomas correctly noted that no other Constitutional guarantees put the onus of proving need for things (such as free speech or equal opportunity) on those looking to exercise those rights.

Alarmists began screaming immediately about a tone-deaf Supreme Court in view of mass shootings taking place recently. Headlines, such as one in the local rag, blared incorrectly “Supreme Court expands gun rights.”

No, the Supreme Court beat back attempts to infringe on rights. It is a substantial difference.

But word play is important, which is why pro-abortion types prefer being labeled pro-choice. More on that later.

Back to protecting the Second Amendment, the appeal to blind emotion on the part of those who would disarm law-abiding citizenry neatly ignores that already existing gun laws are being violated in these mass shootings, either by people illegally possessing the weapons, or having them on property where such things are explicitly prohibited.

It also ignores the plain truth that people using guns to commit crimes are not likely to be stopped just because they would need to break laws to acquire their weapons, either by deceit in the purchase process, by stealing said weapons, or by purchasing them illegally on the black market.

Yeah, the gun-control advocates argue, but making it more difficult will help. No, it won’t.

If the leftists need more proof that more laws don’t mean the problem goes away, consider burgeoning drug use even as various “wars on drugs” have been fought and lost judging by the results.

Many of these same whining liberals professing to be worried about the children when it comes to guns, see no problem with criminals fading in among the illegal immigrant surge at our southern border and gaining entry to this country, presumably to continue to be criminals.

I wonder how many children – or adults for that matter – they might harm? I suspect the number is much higher than those affected by mass shootings, yet this problem is ignored.

Almost on cue came news from Norway Saturday of a mass shooting leaving two dead and 20 wounded.

Initial reports say the suspected gunman is a 42-year-old of Iranian descent with “a long history of violence and threats.”

Said man was not concerned that his automatic weapon was illegal. Imagine that.

Also this week, as had been widely anticipated, the Supreme Court invalidated the Roe vs. Wade decision on abortion.

Despite the screaming headlines you might have read that the Court struck down legal abortion, it merely is a matter of the Court reminding the audience that it is a decision to be made by individual states not the federal government.

To repeat, those states wishing to allow pre-birth infanticide to continue are free to do so. Those state legislatures with a conscience are free to clamp down on abortions. It’s that simple, now.

Yet liberal alarmists have taken the decision to mean abortions are outlawed, and soon to follow will be such things as inter-racial marriages, gay marriages or birth control.

One dependable liberal media mouthpiece called the decision tyranny of the minority. It is not clear how he defines minority, but at last check majority or minority of public opinion is not a firm basis for legal decisions.

For example, at one time the majority of people in this country found slavery acceptable. I’d argue that majority was wrong, but our law-professor liberal mouthpiece apparently would have considered anti-slavery action tyranny of the minority.

Before either Pro-Second Amendment or Pro-Life people celebrate this week’s decisions, understand that the opposition will not be daunted by Supreme Court actions.

Already Congress and Joe Biden (the president who needs a written cheat sheet in hand to instruct him how to enter a room, sit down, and begin to talk – you can look it up!) have agreed on additional gun legislation.

The key aspect is so-called “Red Flag” laws, which free anyone who holds a grudge against a gun owner to declare them dangerous and thus allow authorities to confiscate the guns until that person proves they are not a danger.

The person making the allegations against the gun owner seems to have no burden of proof on him or her.

And pro-abortion types will lobby mightily to overturn the Supreme Court. Democrats will cynically use this as a rallying point in mid-term elections, hoping the people will ignore raging inflation, economic malaise and porous borders to vote in Democrats who have gone on record that they would pack the Supreme Court with additional liberal justices so that they might get their way with future decisions.

If you think the week’s Supreme Court decisions have ended the assault on the Constitution, you are sadly mistaken.

So much of what is happening in the world makes little sense, which could be the key to the explanation for it all.

Indulge in a thought experiment. What if the elites were not trying to solve problems, but instead were intentionally screwing up the political, societal, economic and investing systems?

What if they were sowing discord among the masses and encouraging fragmentation based on race and other superficial aspects?

What if they welcomed a global food crisis for the societal breakdown it could produce?

What if they were gleeful over the collapse of education systems here and abroad, keeping the masses dumb and malleable?

What if they were encouraging armed strife?

What if they were doing all they could to make the desperate citizenry throw up their hands and accept any proposed solution, as long as the pain would stop?

Global elites have been talking about a great reset for a long time, going public in June 2020 at the World Economic Forum. They looked to seize on the COVID “crisis” to get people to accept radical changes they would not ordinarily even consider.

Since then, these elites have been furthering their agenda; this shadowy cabal of un-elected would-be dictators and their corporate elite wingmen has been working feverishly to stir the propaganda pot.

The so-called Great Reset is a confused mix of socialism, environmental green policies on steroids, and general left-wing navel gazing seeking to cede control of the world to a confused triumvirate of multi-national corporations (what could go wrong there?), governments and “civil society organizations.” The last is an ill-defined creation supposedly meaning a group of people distinct from business or government concerns.

What is that? Exactly.

The role of the people in determining their leadership seems minimal if not totally non-existent.

How these elites propose to get there is by tearing down the existing socioeconomic framework.

Dump the world into a universal economic recession, if not a depression, then offer a plan to get things back on track which theoretically will be embraced without question by desperate people.

Punish citizens with rising prices, shortages of goods, energy shortfalls and poor health care.

Stoke wars with saber-rattling adventurism and and promote crime in the streets by refusing to jail criminals and by cutting back on police.

Make people fear the present and question the future.

Highlight differences between people and get them to go tribal, separating into groups that use as a litmus test for friend or foe things such as race, sexual orientation, or politics.

Hammer traditional values and religion into the ground.

Should they accomplish all that, then the world is the elites’ oyster — as long as they can convince the often gullible masses to buy into their reset and the promise of better things.

If and when that happens, there will be no going back. The world will become one dystopian torture chamber for anyone believing in individualism, success through achievement, and private property rights.

It stops only if people refuse to be treated as lab animals in an experiment that would embarrass even the Nazis of World War II.

People need to wake up to their unwitting participation in this game and push their own great reset button before it’s too late.

Horrors, it looks like my youngest granddaughter is a Democrat!

At least she sure is acting like a Democrat.

Let me count the ways. Immature. Self-centered. Unrealistic.

These characteristics tend to produce in her an across-the-board inability to accept reality.

This manifests itself in several ways.

As relayed by my son just the other day, while on a return trip from Hershey, granddaughter ‘Nessa wanted to eat, right now. It mattered not that there was nothing but fields or mountains on either side of the road.

To repeat. She was hungry and wanted to eat immediately if not sooner.

Having it pointed out to her that there were absolutely no restaurants handy – notably even by her 4-year-old sister (a Republican?) – didn’t deter the youngest granddaughter from demanding instant gratification.

Think of all the screaming Democrats who right now have lengthy want lists that include having their student loans forgiven, all guns removed from the hands of law-abiding citizens, and also want more government handout checks to cover the effects of rampant inflation on things ranging from gasoline to food to housing.

On the last, the reality that there is no ability for the government to fund such things, at least not without turning the current inflation into runaway hyperinflation, does not intrude on their rants.

In a similar vein, our Democrat-in-training granddaughter has problems accepting good advice from wise elders.

Example: Last week it was strongly urged that she visit the restroom with grandma before leaving a restaurant. No. No. No and no.

Not five minutes after leaving this restaurant, which had what I’m sure were fine accommodations for such things, the little Democrat decided she had to go. Right now. Again, immediately if not sooner.

And once again, the slightly older granddaughter assured us that when the younger sister says “right now” she means in the next 30 seconds or so. Fortunately there was a deserted road nearby.

This little Democrat is consistent if nothing else on her demand for immediate gratification.

She wants television shows – right now – that aren’t currently airing.

She wants the doll or toy her sister currently is playing with – right now.

Sharing? That’s for you Republicans.

Tell her to clean up the mess she has just made and it’s a fool’s errand. Again, that’s for Republicans to worry about.

Democrats count on the government to make goods and services magically appear for them. This little Democrat still believes in fairies. But she will learn.

Some would argue that since this little leftist is a mere 3-years-old we are experiencing the terrible twos becoming the trying threes, with frustrating fours on the doorstep.

But aging didn’t cure the other Democrats, did it? You think Clueless Joe Biden has become more enlightened with age?

Still, I’m hoping that by the time our granddaughter is 18, and able to vote for Democrats, assuming we still have elections, some of these childish behaviors will have fallen by the wayside.

If not, well, she will find many kindred spirits in the Democratic Party.

The following is the sort of look-at-me bragfest often found on Facebook, Twitter, or other outposts of social media. I apologize in advance for stooping.

It’s Father’s Day and as often happens in our family, it turned into a weekend celebration.

Saturday was devoted to my wife throwing a cookout because my son and his family were headed out of town today. My brother the hermit made an appearance. Gifts were exchanged. Weather was great. A good time was had by all.

Today, the wife and I broke out the 2004 Mustang GT and cruised up to a huge car show in Windber held to celebrate coal miners – how politically incorrect – an event that had been wiped out the past two years due to COVID-19 overkill restrictions.

The weather continued to be ideal, sunny and not too warm. The car turnout was huge. I saw several old acquaintances and chatted with many strangers, including one who admired my hat.

Said hat, a red one purchased at the height of anti-Trump hysteria, says simply “Relax Idiots It’s Just A Hat.”

Back then it was great sport for the leftists to harass wearers of Trump hats and attempt to knock then off or steal them. My hat has gone unmolested.

I feel certain this was a largely Trump-friendly audience for this event, which was held on very same main street of Windber that used to host nightly cruising such as that immortalized in the film “American Graffiti.”

These days cruising has gone the day of $1-a-gallon gasoline, at least in these parts. But there are car shows, which as I have observed here before, are becoming more like AARP rallies. One former neighborhood guy that I ran into lamented how cars of our youth used to be cheap, are priced outrageously high now, but will be heading back to cheap as the current “motorhead” generation dies off and is replaced by kids who think modifying a car means adding a killer sound system.

For now, the car shows are strong and provide a window to view the true America. When the PA announcer asked for a pause of activity while our National Anthem was played, the crowd stopped and stood as one, doffed hats and remained silent.

My kind of people; the sort who would be looked upon with disdain by the crazed socialists holed up in their big cities and consequently blue states.

Leaving the car show early, we ate at a Chinese buffet that unbeknownst to us had transferred ownership. The prices were up slightly, but the food was improved, so it was a wash.

During the meal, some staff brought my wife a gift necklace, explaining that although it was Father’s Day, having a happy wife makes a happy life.

Can’t argue with that. Besides, my wife paid the check!

Soon it’s off to my son’s to dog-sit for the next few days.

Despite all the hardships visited upon us by Clueless Joe Biden and the socialist takeovers of education, media and government, it’s still possible to enjoy oneself.

As observed by 16^th century poet George Herbert, perhaps anticipating the misery inflicted by Pelosi, Schumer and their ilk, “Living well is the best revenge.”

It drives the oppressors crazy.