The Sooner the Better

Well, here it is Monday and I don't have to work.  There are people who like having their days off split - not me.  I like sequential days off; 2 in a row is great, 3 is greater.  This week is not going to be enjoyable for me.
There are a number of items on the "to do" list for today.  We shall see how productive the day ends up being.  I do want to get the lawn mowed.  The electric mower works well.  It's quiet.  I mowed half of my front yard on Saturday.
I saw where a 7th wrestler has now come forward accusing Jim Jordan of ignoring the sexual abuse.  Holy Crap, sounds  shades of Dennis Hastert, doesn't it?  What is it with Conservatives and wrestlers?
And I see the Idiot Jerk in the White House is set to announce his choice for the Supreme Court.  The Social Conservatives are clamoring for some woman he, himself appointed to a judgeship.  Of course we know he doesn't care about experience.  Of course, giving them what they want will just increase the size of the blue wave this fall.  Does he or anybody in his inner circle understand that?  Absolutely not.  The wrong choice will lead to an ugly fight in the Senate and will further divide country. 
Right now I suspect he's obsessing over whether he should wear the blue polo shirt, or the blue turtleneck, for his meeting with Vlad.  You know he wants to make a good impression before he sells his soul to the Russkies.
Sometime this morning, I'm going to change out the crank on my bike.  This means I'll have a spare, but somewhat useless, crank on my hands.  I'd sort of like to compare it to the Idiot Jerk in the White House but can't, he's worse than useless.  Dictatorships always favor minority groups.  Favoring the few and pissing off the many never works.  The price always gets paid.  I will probably save my crank and someday rethread it.  The Idiot Jerk?  After mid-terms he'll probably go into exile.  The sooner the better.

The Karma of Dennis Hastert

I saw that there are now 4 men who claim to have been molested by Dennis Hastert back when he was a teacher / coach.  There may be more, not everybody is going to jump on the 'kick Hastert' bandwagon, some who've buried it in the past and don't want to think about it or deal with it will remain silent.  It doesn't really make much difference because the information that's being revealed paint this 'evangelical Christian' as a real scumbag.  The bit about the recliner is truly perverse, you know?  Sitting it up so he could watch all those naked boys showering?  All their genitalia going flippity flop?  And, of course, being a true evangelical Christian, he has no doubt consistently prayed for forgiveness, while at the same time writing checks to pay one of his victims off.  Of course he should have realized the moment he started moving his money from account to account that his Karma was starting to kick in; that his mistakes were going to be fixed in a very public way.

Purportedly, since his trespasses have been made public, he's suffered through a blood infection and a minor stroke, both of which severely limit the amount of time he is out in public.  His name, which he thought to make honorable, is not hyphenated with terms like 'sexual predator,' 'child molester,' and 'deviate.'  The lives of his sons, Ethan and Joshua have been effected because people will say "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree."  Did he know what he was doing back then?  Was there any real consideration for the boys?  Or was he just gratifying his own sexual wants?  One suspects it's the latter.  Either way, his Karma is really, really bad.  It's going to be bad for his sons, because they, like those boys way back when, have been Hastertized.