Freddogg Off The Chain

The last two weeks have not been kind to the McCain/Palen ticket and as a result new tracking polls have them rebounding and now in a virtual tie with Barack/Biden. That may seem mystifying to many pundits but I get it as the American electorate reminds me of an Under Review high school stocked with the child left behind in all of us.
It’s all about backlash and blacklash. It’s about name calling, ageism and sexism. I have been lumped into a category of “you Libs” and that got my attention because like a lot of independent thinkers I don’t identify with liberals or conservatives I’m just out here trying to figure it all out and not exploiting people for personal gain and profit.
I recently bought a queen size mattress for the guest room because my king sized brother is coming to visit. ‘You don’t understand a man who makes a frivolous expenditure for a mattress and box spring set do you,”I ask me wife and she said,” No, she didn’t, or why men buy flat screen televisions” and I reminded her it was because she grew up in the household of “Cruller Man” the most unimaginative doughnut in the case of coconut and cream filled, so who makes that decision? “Frugality is a personality disorder,” Grandmom said. “Poppy stores nuts because who feels like looking at them.” And then she stared back like “you don’t need an explanation, linkage is intelligence and you are missing linkage just like your cousins.”
Speaking of bakeries, religion and politics, in my home town of Penndel, Pa, the German Bakery on Main Street was owned by the Catholic Church and was tax exempt as was the movie theater where the usher always had a flashlight in his pocket and if you think about it how phallic is the collection basket being passed down your pew, stopping and jingling above you lap top? You drop a dollar from a distance because you instinctively know to touch the basket is creepy.
The big wagon wheel keeps on turning and I left the hub on the spoke of my choice and now I’m circling the outer rim like an old baboon looking in at the breeding population. It figures that the Baby Boomer generation-everybody out of the gene pool- would mortgage the future knowing they wouldn’t be around to pay it down.


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