Time Magazine and President Agent Orange Julius Caesar Salad Dumpster Fire and Fuhrer Von Trumplestillskin Von Trumpenstein are having a disagreement about Time’s Person of the Year. Trumplestillskin says they asked him to be that person and to have a photo shoot and interview. Time is saying that isn’t how it works. At this point, does it matter? To put it plainly, if you are the President of the United States of America and you still need someone to pat you on the back and say, “You’re awesome.” You have a problem. You need to seek counseling. You should understand that being POTUS is about as important as it gets. Ratings don’t matter, popularity doesn’t matter…getting things done for people matter. This is how shallow our Liar in Chief is. Next thing you know he’s going to insisting that he’s on the cover of Teen Beat too.
What is Trumplestillskin doing this weekend? Golfing… as usual. He is also trying to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and get the FCC to kill net neutrality, so the little guy has that to look forward to. Oh, and the big tax break that all the super rich are going to get too.
Our only hope for a sane end to this nonsense is Santa Mueller. He has been sharpening his knives for a long time, when are we going to see some KUSH carved up? Rumor has it that Flynn’s yammering is going to leave THE KUSH and Don-Fredo out in the wind.
So, here’s your nothing burger for the day. Manafort, Popandopolous, and Flynn are all pretty much toast. So, SANTA MUELLER MUST HAVE BIGGER FISH on the line. DO IT! DO IT NOW!
I’ll be tuning in with my souvlaki in one hand and the remote in the other.
Why is my page titled South of the Strait? Well I live in a far corner of the United States. I live in a small town south of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. If I was going to throw a rock across the strait it would land in Canada. I used to be an English teacher. I have worked in Westport, Port Angeles, and Sequim, Washington... and I did two years of substitute teaching in Coalinga, California.
I've moved around a lot, living in: Sterling,Kansas; Chicago; Jordan, Montana; Lemoore, California; Auckland, New Zealand; Spokane, Washington; Gambier, Ohio.
What do I write? For WordPress I used to print once a week for general comments. I wrote reviews of music concerts my daughter made me attend. (Each month she would want us to drive to Seattle to see a music group. I usually stood in the back watching weird stuff.) I also wrote about trips I have taken in Europe where I liked getting lost. I also wrote during the few months when my son was treated for cancer. (He is officially free of cancer of five years.) About three years ago I decided to stop writing blogs so I could concentrate on writing a few books. I have completed three books...or maybe four. I have now compiled my short stories poems and memoirs on Amazon. You can get it at Amazon now..."A Work In Progress"--Jon Eekhoff. I have been very close to getting a printed book called "Lost Summer" but I was never offered $1,000,000.00. (It's set in Paris, 1920's, with baseball, writers, artist, and actually true stuff.) I wrote a book about college basketball called "Laidlaw." It's kind of a mix of "Moby Dick" and a coach who is about to get fired so he takes his team out for a free drive around the West. My most recent book is "California Tales." These are connected stories about the missionary churches in California. They are sad, funny, inspiring, and odd. I had the entire book done in my head and had just one section to finish the next day...and that is when I fell 20 feet from my roof and landed on the cement. (Like a lot of men, I thought I could maintain my own roof instead of leaving it to the professionals.) I don't remember anything about my accident but I am told I was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Though conscious and responsive after surgery to remove part of my skull, I don't remember anything from my first month there. I spent another month of Harborview working on walking, speaking, and writing. That was two years ago. As a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) survivor, I could have quit writing, but I am not going to quit. I work with the University of Washington Speech and Hearing Clinic.
So, here I am. I am married and live here in Sequim with my wife Cheryl. Our kids live in nearby cities. Writing is now an exhausting exercise, but something I plan to keep working on.
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