Let’s start with the big one, Trump and COVID-19.

I want to be a human and wish him and his wife a good recovery.  But I have to acknowledge that I kind of agree with the second part of a Root post.

I believe he is getting what he deserves.  He ignored all the health experts around him and discouraged mask use around him.  I’ve been yelling this at multiple characters and real people on the screen.

“What did you think would happen?!!”

I only yell it when the person has time to consider possible outcomes.  If it’s an emergency or something that requires a quick decision I’ll give them a pass.  That kind of situation involves instinct and experience.

Let me opine about Trump and the first debate.

I was not surprised in the least because I watch televised debates as a source of entertainment.  The last real debate I saw was Jerry Falwell against the Prime Minister of New Zealand at Oxford.  It was polite, full of well-stated arguments about nuclear weapons, and kind of dull.

In 1985 New Zealand  didn’t let US Navy ships into port  because they wouldn’t say if they were carying  nuclear weapons.  Jerry Falwell, a preacher at a megachurch in Lynchburg Virginia and the leader of conservative political group called the Moral Majority took exception to that and challenged the leader of the country ti a debate.

Long story short he lost the debate.  This was determined by which door the audience left the hall.  The majority agreed with the Prime Minister.

I started a subscription to Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN Plus yesterday.  I did it because Brooke wanted to watch Hamilton.  The package will run me 14$ a month.

I could have got only Disney but the other 2 channels seemed like a deal.  I don’t know what will be on ESPN+ but it could come in handy after sports starts again,  Hell, it might show Australian Rules Football.  Hulu has some interesting series like Handmaid’s Tale (for Brooke) and Mrs. America, supposedly a series about Phyllis Schafly.

I’m not happy about giving Disney money because I think they have way too much cash.  They bought Star Wars and Marvel.  Now they can put their view on these franchises.  I’m talking about girlying up the female super heroes.  If the mouse was in control Princess Leia would never been in that bikini.

I can’t complain about the library. I’m watching Neil Degrasse Tyson’s version of Cosmos.  I’ve watched the original animated version of the Jungle Book with the cool music.  They are also offering their science films with the original German rocket scientests,  They’ve got the channel divided into 5 sections, Disney, Pixar,Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.

The Marvel section has all the movies but what surprised me is all the animated series.  I’m watching the X-Men.  It’s good because the animation doesn’t look like a cheap Saturday morning cartoon and the characters are drawn for adults (men are cut with muscles and the women are curvy),

The Pixar section has the movies too but I watched a show called Pixar in Real Life.  The episode I watched had the emotion control panel from Inside Out controlling actors in a park.  Real people would play with the controls and suddenly two people would  get angry, sad or however the switches and dials were moved.  It was a guilty pleasure.  If another adult had been in the room I would not have tried it.

We’ve seen a few episodes of The Mandalorian in the Star Wars section.  I’m considering getting into the Rebels animated series,

I don’t do marijuana.  Since I’m 58 that’s a “Well DUH!” statement.  By this  age I should have stories and reasons for stopping.  Sorry, it’s a tale of a misspent youth with few friends that had the connections and inclination to score or share with me some boo.

I tried regular cigarettes in my early teens and didn’t like any of the experience; the coughing, the fire, the smell or the expense.  I didn’t get any coolness credit either.  I figured if I didn’t like machine rolled hand-rolled was not going to be any better.  The lack of peers to pressure me into the drug culture contributed to the pristine atmosphere in my lungs.

That’s my excuse for high school.  Most of those reasons extended into college.  I studied engineering at the University of Houston.  U of H is a mostly commuter school so there not a lot of sitting around a dorm room expanding our minds and dreamily solving the world’s problems in a cannabis haze.

Engineering is not a major that breeds nor welcomes potheads.

I did have opportunities to get high after college.  All those times I was drunk and apparently you can’t feel a pot high under the influence of alcohol.  I didn’t enjoy dealing with small recreational fires so I refused any more offers.

By then everybody in my social circle were in their mid-20s or older so the quest for coolness had ended and the decisions about recreational drugs (brands and delivery systems) had been made.