Want to see how crazy the Trumplestillskin administration has been? Exhibit A: A few days ago, President Agent Orange Julius Caesar Salad Dumpster Fire and Fuhrer Von Trumplestillskin Lord Dampnut Von Trumpenstein tweeted that a US senator was willing to have sex with him for money. Yeah, that happened… and now… on with the greatest show/train-wreck on Earth.
Net Neutrality will be decided today. Studies have shown that millions of comments on the net neutrality website have come from bots in support of killing equal access to the web. I’m pretty sure the businesses who will benefit from the end of net neutrality had nothing to do with it. Wink-wink. SKYNET NOW!
My little cowboy friend, Roy “The Montgomery Mall Mauler” Moore is not conceding defeat to Doug “Vanilla Milkshake” Jones in Alabama. Moore is praying to God that the extra votes show up in the mail. God is like, “Thanks for running for office and outing yourself as a creep.” Roy Moore’s horse has been sent off to the horse whisperer for therapy. I think that horse deserves some extra oats because the people of Alabama probably watched Moore riding it and said, “That guy isn’t a cowboy. He’s a fake. I’ll vote for Nick Saben instead. Roll Tide.”
Don-Fredo had a nine-hour grilling in front of the Senate investigators. If you include the house investigation, seven hours, that makes two full days of work for poor Don-Fredo. For a Trump, two full days of work mean he gets a month off and five rounds of golf on the American Taxpayer. I sure hope Don-Fredo used that great defense of “lawyer client” privilege.
Omarosa has finally gotten her walking papers. She went out like the reality star that she is. Reports are that she had to be dragged out of the White House. She is already appearing on morning shows promising to tell all the behind-the-scenes dirt on the Trumpenstein administration. I hope publishing houses and Barbara Walters don’t fall all over themselves to get her story because her story isn’t worth paying for.
What is worth paying for is a hot souvlaki on a cold day.
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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