On Becoming a Billionaire

Well, we're just about at brunch time on the day after Christmas.  A winter advisory will be taking effect very shortly.  Snow, ice, and freezing rain are in our forecast for this afternoon and this evening.  Now, doesn't that sound simply wonderful.  Our temps are sitting just below the 30 (F) degree mark and are not expected to rise much.  This is how it goes.

Yesterday was Christmas and it was nice and quiet... mostly.  My neighbors did pop their volume up for a bit, so filled the same Christmas spirit, I popped mine up, too.  I put on some terrible Christmasy romance on Netflix with voluminous string orchestrations.  And, as expected, they shortly dropped their volume down to an acceptable level.  This was me being the good neighbor and reminding them that I can be just as loud as they are, something they are not too particularly fond of.  

Otherwise, yesterday was fairly quiet.  Howie and I ate ham and scalloped potatoes.  Both were delicious.  I have leftovers will will keep my belly happy for the next week.

I did have breakfast with my brother this morning, the reason this is a mid-morning post rather than morning.  He's fine.  He has a well paying job now.  It's 12 month contract.  He's going to try for an extension, if you getting himself permanently hired.  He hasn't said so, but I suspect he and his wife had accumulated a lot of debt.  He also reminded me he's out of touch with what's been happening with the Orange Anus.  So, I did some enlightening.

And I watched City of Shadows on Neflix.  This is an intense psychological thriller.  And it was good.  Some might find a few of the scenes a bit grisly, burnt cadavers can be disgusting.

As I said early, my brother's a bit out of touch with everything the Orange Anus is doing, and saying.  I think this is quite common, not only with Republican voters, but with Democrats as well.  My brother also said that he only checks the news about once a week.  Ignorance is bliss, isn't it.  Again, I suspect that there are a number of Democratic voters who do the same thing.  When I was growing up, we watched the local news and the national news everyday.  I don't think that happens anymore.  Republicans will watch Fox Entertainment because they like the disinformation the hosts and talking heads spew out.  Sleazebag liberals watch NBC, ABC, CNN, and CBS.  But even we, the sleazebags, are turning away from the sources of Main Stream Media.  There are too many other viably accurate sources.  This is why Larry Ellison, the 81 year-old billionaire who bought CBS is throwing his money away.  Even though he's older, he's a lot like me, in that he, too, watched the local news and the national news when they were still legitimate.  That's changed.  Americans are going to tune into CBS the way Republicans tune into Fox Entertainment, because there already is a Fox Entertainment.  Becoming a billionaire doesn't make one smart, just ruthless.