Yesterday I was standing in the yard when the recycling truck came by.  I was surprised because it looks like a garbage truck but there’s only one guy manning it.  Instead of two super athletes running behind dumping cans in the back there’s just one man who steps off his square behind the wheel, bends down and heaves the box of bottles into the side.  Then he putters down to the next house.  The really sad thing is, the poor guy has to wear a dust mask over his mouth, a ‘particulate respirator.’

Do you know how hot, uncomfortable, disorienting, and unhealthy it is to breathe through plastic your entire life?  It might be different if there were a point to it, but there’s no point to this germ-ism except to demonstrate power. It’s not like the man’s a surgeon.  Maybe they’re concerned he may breathe in some microscopic shards of glass in which case they’d have to lower him into a medically-induced coma until they could meet with their team of lawyers.

I feel so bad for people these days.  You order a couple donuts from the girl at the register and she has to pull on a pair of those awful gloves, get the plastic tongs, and pick out your donuts.

In more curbside news, I have a new dog and no fence so now I go on walks.  I’ve never been an admirer of dog walkers.  I can’t tell who’s walking whom.  But what’s worse, I really don’t appreciate the baggies.  Few are in my camp here.  Can’t we have enough respect for each other not to make people walk around with dog poop?  It’s not as if the dogs are messing up your whole yard.  It’s just the edge near the sidewalk.

I know.  My dog’s not your problem, but when did this all start?  People are going to get worms this way.

I knew our way of life was over when they passed the seat belt law to try and stem the mayhem from their explosive air bags.  I was confirmed in my opinion when they forced people to wear silly bike helmets.  That was some years ago.  Today what you might wish to do with your own self is irrelevant.  I will not be surprised to find that in ten years I will have to wear a particulate respirator to walk my dog, if they even have dogs by then.  Pets don’t keep pets.

Where is this election headed?  Trump himself said something interesting the other day.  Trump isn’t interesting because he lies.  He’s interesting because he actually tells the truth sometimes.  He said, ‘Cruz is a tool of the Bush family and the party will abandon him in Cleveland.’  There.  Perhaps one of our rulers broke the code again and fed us poor minions a bit of the truth.

Will it happen?  I would think it’s likely.  Paul Ryan was mugging like a faithful ‘catholic’ yesterday in the appropriate socialist way.  His four points of being a Catholic leader are, “subsidiarity, solidarity, the preferential option for the poor, and people are the solution.”  There’s only actual Catholic point there.  The rest are just hooks.

An able story-maker, Trump is laying low at the moment.  What will he do when the GOP moves?  I think he very well may go third party.  Everyone’s always suspected it.  The only difference is Trump’s party would be to the right of the Republicans.

Trump wants a wall.  Cruz just decided to.  Trump wants to punish mothers who abort their kids.  Both parties think that’s horrendous.  Trump wants tax cuts, free market healthcare, and a business climate that’s not so anti-American, though you’d never know this from his press.  Cruz talks like that, but has years of practice playing ‘good cop’ to the Senate’s bad.  He may be sincere or not.  If Trump’s statement about Cleveland materializes, then Cruz would have been even more aware of the situation in advance.

A popular third party candidate to the right of the Republicans will be different.  Would Trump become president that way.  Not likely.  But if they broker the convention, whoever the GOP lands upon won’t win anyway.  These people don’t need the presidency.

This seems entirely unconventional and it is, for the U.S.  It’s not unconventional however in Europe.  In Europe they actually have three parties:  the Socialists, the ‘Center-Right,’ and the ‘Far Right.’  The Socialists and the Center-Right are really both socialists.  The normal, decent, and Christian people are the ones they call extremists, violent ‘xenophobes,’ racists, and Nazis.  But they’re nothing like Nazi’s.  Nigel Farage, Geert Wilders, Marion Maréchal Le Pen, and Frauke Petry are all nice.

In Europe, this Far-Right always looks like it’s gaining because it’s popular, but it never takes any meaningful power.  That’s simply because the Left and the Center are one.  They set the rules and collaborate in opposition to the public.  The people are their chattel.  That sounds really familiar.