Are we all missing something important?

 

This was just a joke at the time. Who knew?

It’s so easy to get caught up in the politics of things and wind up overlooking more serious issues lurking beneath the surface of the headlines. 

It’s late Sunday afternoon and I’ve been reviewing the week’s activities. Discovered it’s possible the pressures of producing several posts a day on Facebook has clouded my focus to some extent. It really shouldn’t have though. Not many months after the satirical post above aI had occasion to cover some new political atrocity committed by the Governor of what Ohio State Buckeye Coach Woody Hayes would have called “That State up north. You know. It.” Here’s what I cobbled together back then:



Hard questions. Did I do any follow-up? No. I had an inkling that apparently just inkled out. Then, this week, there was a flurry of stories in which I really should have detected a pattern. Consider these items from my page, quoting from elsewhere obviously:



Inexcusably, I even had an audio clip of an excerpt from the offending ruling from the bench:

All right. You caught me. I posted it without listening to it.

Then there was this:


Only a mask, right? Two not very similar dots to connect, right?

Then:


Easy to see how I didn’t connect this dot. She isn’t a judge. Just like I pointed out.


But not more than few minutes ago I was compelled to post another happening and think about brushing up on my dot-connecting skills:


Are we really about to see new initials in the LGBTQ+++ movement. Like ‘TS’ for trans-unknown-what? What should we do, if anything? Sorry. It’s Sunday like I said, I'm tired, and not at the top of my game after a long week.

If you have any ideas about this surprising development in our cultural kimchi pot, please feel free to share. You don’t have to belong to any group or provide your name or other contact information to comment here. You can just post your own thoughts at the prompt below. Be as anonymous as anyone with good sense would be when dealing the the LBGTQu’ers. I’ll never tell…

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