The bad news is that I can’t get an epidural until December 16th. The good news is that maybe I don’t need it. I’m no longer in back pain, though the problem has migrated lower into my upper thigh, making me a little gimpy. On the other hand, that’s getting better, too. At this rate, I should be back to normal this weekend. Now I have to start some strength training to prevent a recurrence.
The Impeachment Clown Show
Star clown Al Greene complains that there was insufficient racial diversity among the witnesses. Meanwhile, Jonathan Turley shot down many of the Dem’s “arguments” in flames.
[Update a while later]
Green’s complaint is pretty hilarious, given that the witnesses were selected by Democrat leadership.
Not surprising, of course, since the Democrat Party is traditionally the party of racism.
[Update a few minutes later]
Turley: Under the Dems definition of abuse of power, Obama could have been impeached.
He should have been, actually.
Advanced Space Propulsion
It’s the power supply, dummy.
I do think that ultimately, absent something like anti-matter, or perhaps fusion, beamed power is the solution to opening the solar system. It could either push sails, or provide power for electric propulsion.
Critical Thinking
Only 9% of fifteen-year olds can distinguish between written fact and opinion.
Sadly, the same is probably true of adults. As Glenn notes, it’s almost as thought this is a goal of the system.
Democrat Dismay
You’d have to have a heart of stone to read this without laughing out loud.
The reason that they can’t come up with any candidates who can beat Trump is that they insist on insane policies, and they’ve chased all the centrists out of the race.
Trolling, Trolling
Yes, rename the White House press room for Richard Jewell. Of course, many in the press corps will be to stupid to see the point.
Iran In Flames
…and thanks to Trump hatred, the “elites” didn’t even see it coming.
I remember a political cartoon from 1979, showing one spook talking to another: “Pssst, there’s a revolution happening in Iran.” The other one replies, “Quick, notify President Truman!”
One of the most shameful things that Obama did was to implicitly support the Mullahs during the Green Revolution, probably because that’s what Valerie Jarrett told him to do, and partly because he wanted to have them around in order to “negotiate” a shit “deal” with them.
California Residency
When it comes to paying taxes, you can check out of Hotel California, but you can never leave.
Back On The Air
We drove back to CA from Colorado this past weekend, and tried to get in Sunday night, but as we approached the California border, we ran into a jam of people returning from Thanksgiving weekend. It took us an hour to get from Jean to Primm at the border (a few miles), so we gave up and turned around to go back to Vegas, which had cheap rooms on an off-season Sunday night (though infuriatingly, the room at the Luxor was only forty bucks, the “resort fee” took it up to seventy). Add in ten bucks for parking and taxes, and it was a hundred, but still a good deal for a luxury room.
Anyway, we drove home yesterday, getting in mid afternoon. My back is quite a bit better, and the painful spasms are gone, but now the problem has migrated to a pain on the inside of my right thigh when I walk, probably as a result of how I was walking when my back hurt. I’ll be going in for epidurals this week, and starting some kind of physical therapy, which will probably just be standard strength training, which I should have been doing anyway.
Of course, the new problem du jour is a furnace that’s not lighting, which apparently started over the weekend, according to our house sitter. Last time this happened it was a bad igniter, and I’m hoping that’s the problem this time as well, because it’s an easy and cheap fix.
But the fun never ends.
[Late-afternoon update]
As I suspected, it was a bad igniter. These things seem to be like light bulbs, in that they have no predictable life, and can fail at any random time. Of course, in a sense, that’s exactly what they are, in that you’re heating a filament with electricity, except not in vacuum.
The FBI
…has been diagnosed with CIA disease.