BREAKING SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE

 

This is what you voted for MAGA

Happy trails

the Ol'Buzzard

RESTAURANT OBSERVATIONS

 

My wife and I occasionally eat at restaurants.  While waiting for our meal I often observe the other diners, and there is a pattern I have observed.

 

At every table with four or more diners, especially diners forty years or older, there will be a person holding court, and dominating every conversation.

 

For every table of six or more the self-appointed master-of-ceremony will talk louder than anyone else – controlling the conversation and allowing no dead airtime to exist.   If drinking is involved, at that table there will be a person who brays like a donkey, booming laughter at something that's probably not that funny.

People under thirty do not fall into this loquacious category, as they sit at their table with their cellphones, probably texting each other rather than talking.

 

And then there is the family with young undisciplined children…

Your bill will total over one hundred dollars
and you are sitting next to this!

Bon Appetit

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

 

 

TRUMP STATES OF AMERICA

 

ENLARGE FOR BEST VIEWING

I miss Yellowdog Granny.

the Ol'Buzzard

MUTUAL CONTEMPT

 

LOVE IT

the Ol'Buzzard

TIME TRAVELERS

 

 

We are all time travelers.  We are on a never pausing spaceship traveling into the future.

 

Einstein postulated that if light speed is constant then time is not.  If time is not a fixed standard, then it will vary by the speed of one object moving away from another.

RELATIVITY

An astronaut leaves Earth traveling at 8/10 the speed of light.  After 30 years on the spaceship, 50 years will have passed on Earth. 

 

People belonging to the know-nothing party, which is the base of the Republican Party, will say that Relativity, like Evolution, is just a theory – somehow they will weave god into it.   

But time travel is a standard calculation that allows GPS to operate and allows us to land a space probe or ship with precise accuracy on another planet or moon. 

Time is bendable and can be affected by gravity, opening the possibility of wormholes, but that is another formulation. 

 

To my way of thinking, time is truly relative to the individual.   When I was eight years old the time between one Christmas and the next was an eternity.   Now in my eighties, it seems I wake up and another month has passed. 

 

Then perhaps this is all just a simulation.  Zeus's son is playing a computer game and we are just avatars.   

the Ol'Buzzard

TAKEOVER SHANTY

 

I would like to see this take off as a shanty on social media

the Ol'Buzzard

 

SNOWS THEN AND NOW

 

Old men remember.   Over a half century ago when I was a young man in Maine, you could not go into the woods in the winter without snowshoes.   Not the puney little aluminum snow shoes of today.  You needed a set of trail shoes or trappers – if you were just over 100 pounds you could probably get by with bearpaws.

 If you stepped off your snowshoes you would sink to your crotch or deeper.   We don’t have snow like that today.

 

The snow storms don’t come as often and are not as severe, then are followed by a warmup.  

 

That said, today we have an old-time storm coming into Maine. The snow just started here in western Maine and is forecast to last all day, dropping 10 to 16 inches.

 

I am located just below and east of the town of Rangeley.   In the 10-16 inch area. 

On the southern coast, the snow will turn to sleet and then freezing rain.  Undoubtedly causing power outages.

 

So, this will be a goodun; but I remember when this would have just been considered a standard storm. 

the Ol’Buzzard