Lost, Found, and Returned

On Friday, 9/26/2025, I was over at the local liquor store buying a bottle of gin. 

Jiffy Lube and Me

The old jitney needed an oil change, and I needed a trip to the liquor store, so off we go. Oil change first, for obvious reasons. This should be easy, right? Drive in, decline all the extras except maybe changing out the air filter because I want the engine to last a bit longer than I do, and then two hundred and change later I'm trying to cheer myself up on the way to the liquor store, after which it's happy hour, and - well, is anyone surprised when things didn't work out that way?

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Assassination and the Social Situation

 This isn't a first. We, the sane citizens of the United States, have had some warning that this was coming. The thing is commercial media refused to cover it, and the few people that knew about it couldn't make themselves heard.

Let's go back to September 11^th, 2001 for a minute or so. Those of you with thin skins, strong snowflake SJW attitudes or affiliations, go outside and play. Big people are talking now.