So far, in 347 days President Agent Orange Julius Caesar Salad Hair Lord Dampnut Dumpster Fire and Furher Von Trumplestillskin Von Trumpenstein has had three days where he hasn’t done something so nuts that it would have gotten any previous president placed on house arrest. Yesterday might have been one of his worst. He started off by taking credit for airline safety in 2017…”the best and safest year on record!” Yep, this is how megalomaniacal dictators talk. So, were the deaths on the train crash recently Trumplestillskin’s fault? What about the hurricane deaths? How about all the innocent people killed by bombs this year? Or, what about the record number of deaths in coal mines this year…is that something he caused? I suppose he is the type of deity that only does good.
Then Trumpenstein tweeted at “Short Fat Latte” Kim Jong-un that he also had a button, a big button, that works. Maybe you’re one of the 30% of America who think this is hilarious. (Probably not, because you would have unfriended me about 300 days ago.) Why is this idiot allowed to have a twitter account? That cowboy hat wearing moron in Milwaukee just had his account suspended for tweeting that he was going to punch the liberal media in the nose (Where is that?) so it could taste its own blood, but the little handed orange man can threaten thermonuclear war and it’s like, “Well, you know. He has lots of twitter followers.” Close down his account! Turn it off. How would you like to be the cause of WWIII in future history books. (Assuming someone survives.) “In 2017, The United States of America elected an orange clown to the highest office in the land. The orange clown had a twitter account, a social media platform that only allowed 280 characters per ‘tweet.’ The orange clown started a war by tweeting ‘I have a really big button, I cannot lie. You other brothers can’t deny that when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist…’ The leader of North Korea thought the orange clown was tweeting about his momma, so he hit the little button just to prove it worked. The resulting war ended the lives of six billion people.” If you have a Twitter account, you can hash brown “complicit” @jack who is the twitter guy. Maybe he will shut down the account. Probably not, who wants to upset a dictator?
The Orangutan in chief is going to give out the dishonest news awards. (Yes, he said he is going to do this. I know, he also said Mexico is going to pay for a wall.) Gee, I wonder if Faux Newz will get any awards. I’m betting they don’t qualify as a news source.
I’m going to hand out the not really a souvlaki award this year also. Runner up goes to chicken burrito. And the winner for the fifth year in a row, beef gyros.
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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