Day: January 30, 2019

Today is conference championships in wrestling for my mid kid. This is interesting because it comes a weekend after state championships where he placed 10th. He was beaten by another kid from his conference/district and that kid has beaten him now six times out of six I believe. So, we are left facing the same dilemma as the team tries to claim a title. Can we outscore the other schools in the district?

Of course, their drama is nothing compared to what is happening in the NBA where Anthony Davis faces a 50k fine for openly expressing his will to turn down a max contract north of 230 million in order to play for a team with championship aspirations and opportunity. He stopped short of naming the Lakers as a desired destination, but everybody knows he wants to join LeBron. There is also word that LeBron wants to form his own super team to rival the power of Golden State. If it works–if he can get Kyrie and Davis to join in and Leonard to leave Canada then we will have the two great super powers aligning in the far west and the rest of the league relying on young star power.

The deadline is Feb. 7th. I’ll be checking in on the wire then.

Some Thoughts:

1. I decided to get this out before I hit the stride of my day. Looking at the daily plan I put together I recognize that I failed miserably in sticking to workload and word count to the point where I am nearly indescribably behind and require a catch up session over the next few days that rivals a work-in. If I can catch up, that would ascribe me legendary status.
2. Legend-ary.
3. I wonder about the relationship between religion and sex. Specifically it often feels like religion is a vehicle to ensure sexual chastity and control of partners. What arose that made this necessary?

Trump is a liar.

Yes, I know this seems like old hat by now, but here is the problem: We have accepted him as a liar but continue to offer some bare respectability to at least some of the words falling out of his mouth. In other words, even if we know he is lying most of the time we expect at least something coming from him to be true. Hardly anything ever is to which I argue we should assume that every single thing he says is a lie and fact check those things he says that we find personally of interest and portent to ourselves.

I’m asking you all to do a lot of work, and I recognize that nobody has time for that. However, consider the gravity of his lies. Most recently he made a speech from the oval office where he argued that women were being smuggled across the border in ‘super cars’ that the border patrol couldn’t keep up with and prayer rugs were being found in the desert. If it sounds like a movie then you’re right. It’s the latest addition of Sicario. I’m not saying he saw the movie, but I am saying someone did and decided that fiction ought to transmute to real life. Or real lies.

The prayer rugs part doesn’t even make sense. Muslims who pray with the rugs are going to need to take them along in order to continue praying. So, just no. We have become so numbed to the lies that we fail to see the slow dismantling of our confidence and belief in a system of government. It feels like everything I was told about the Nixon White House but writ large in 4K.

Some Thoughts:

1. I’m going to vote for certain and certainly against Trump.