Channel surfer

More and more I'm interested in less and less.

My world now seems to be revolving around William Blake's single grain of popcorn.

The past in retrospect looks pretty good, the present pretty dismal, and the farther away I stay from the future the more fortunate I feel.

Superficial is the way We The People want it--televised nightly on Fox News and MSNBC.

As I watched wildfire flames lick at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA in living color, I thought, "maybe if the place burns down Republicans will come around on climate change and global warming.'

Seeing footage of the rubble at the compound of ISIS leader al-Baghadi, killed by US Special Forces in a raid in Syria, it occured to me that the devastation I saw there, as broadcast on PBS, presented a visual metaphor of The Trump Presidency, a ruined edifice, crumbled and smoldering under fierce attacks by Democrats. I interpreted the sight of the ISIS compound carnage engineered by US SPECIAL FORCES as the 'foreshadowing' I'd learned from my high school English teacher, the literary device used, it seems, by every great writer of American fiction, from Hawthorne thru JD Salinger.

Judy Woodruff, PBS news-reader, warned me I should turn away, saying the report of the assassination of al-Baghadi contained, 'violent and distrubing images'.

The Obama's have created a Foundation (www.obama.org) as the Clinton's created a Foundation before them.

Some news is difficult to get straight: GM settled with the UAW. Correct. GM is siding with the Trump Administration in a legal fight with California over gas emissions and fuel standards. Correct? 

NBA-TV was showing The Celtics beating The Bucks.

C-Span broadcast the tail-end of a rally for a Democratic Presidential candidate. I can't remember who the candidate was: it was one of the candidate's who doesn't have a chance.

I turned to THE WORLD SERIES, game 7, winner-take-all, 3rd inning. Three hours later The Nationals won.