InstaPunk Returns

  I wake up in the middle of the night. i have notifications from the Instagram companion app ‘Threads.’ Simetimes people who tell me they liked my response to so and so, others from the app itself telling how many favorable views (60, 100 Likes, and so on)  this or that response has had. Still others anxious to pick fights with someone a few have started calling ‘the Cryptkeeper’ because of the avatar I’ve been using lately at FB and Instagram. I don’t mind. Probably accurate in a way. Looks old on purpose. Often there’s a back and forth or two, until they or I give up in disgust. All a waste of time, I suppose, but it’s a way to vent the nervous energy that wakes me up and I can go back to sleep for a couple hours. But now and then there’s someone so committed to their antiTrump obsession that they feel compelled to dig in and keep trying to put me in my place. They can’t help it. Here’s an example from the last day or so. It started with a thread of TDS’ers who were irate a...

You know, that age-old phenomenon of a sudden resurgence of hot weather after school starts… Yes, it’s been a hot week at home and abroad. Something(s) incendiary but instructive every single day. Not so unusual really. When you take the long view, every week brings us stuff that is hot and scary but also dumb as a Jimmy Kimmel joke. You know what I mean. You got to take time out to just laugh at some things. Like this past week. As bad as a lot of the news was, the silly still bubbles to the surface like a rueful chuckle. Our humor highlights this week come from reliable topics like religion, politics, race, money, and hats. That’s a combination that’s hard to beat. Most of the references are derived from FB posts, but reconfigured as convenient to be less informative than funny here. The weekend’s upon us. Who needs informative? Saturday, Sept 27 Bill Maher had an up and down week. He’s still torn between the divided religious household he grew up in and the secular solipsism he has ...