Sunday Morning Post (V.2, #25) – End of the Month Satirical Clearance, Clarence

This week, a modified version of what I used to label Snort Bites when I could muster up at least one paragraph on a minimum of three unrelated topics, but not enough to fill my customary 7-11 paragraph entry. 

 

TOO WHITE-COLLAR FOR X, TOO BLUE-COLLAR FOR Y

This may turn out to be the beginning of an intermittent series of lists in which I contemplate my attitudes towards certain things and thus settle into a niche somewhere in the societal hierarchy.  We hear all the time about blue-collar workers and white-collar workers, the difference between those who roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty to put food on the table, and those sophisticated individuals who dirty their hands through other means.

Kids, google “exploitation of the workers” for more information about the white-collar place in the hierarchy, but I digress.

This may be our shared attitudes towards stereotypes talking, but there are more differences between the color of our collars then meets the eye.  Each group has a set of values and beliefs which I reckon are hard wired into each individual.  I like to think I’m in the middle between these two value systems. I have a little of both: raised in a blue-collar middle-class household, but possessing a college degree which enabled me to acquire a modicum (i.e., not much) of intellectualism.

For example, I have determined that I am too white-collar for country and western music, but I am too blue-collar to really appreciate opera.  (Apologies to Spo.)

I am also too white-collar for Thunderbird, but too blue-collar for snobbish high end, out of my middle-class pay scale, sipping whisky.  (Again, apologies to Spo.)

That’s a good start for this list.  Do any readers have any thoughts on their relationship between white and blue collars?

ANNOYING HABITS OF THE PRESIDENT

I really shouldn’t care about the President peccadillos, but I just have to spout off about some things about him that really annoy me. 

First annoying habit: constantly displaying his ignorance of the American Constitution and democracy.

Second annoying habit: when he steps up to the lectern to speak to his subjects (I am not one of them), he has to adjust the microphone which is in a perfectly good position in the first place.  Yo, Mr. President, stop playing with the microphone like it’s your dick!  If only the microphone could sprout arms and fists to fight back.  

Again, readers, please feel free to chime in with any Presidental habits which annoy the crap out of you.

POLL AFTER POLL SHOWS JOE BIDEN WITH A DOUBLE-DIGIT LEAD OVER PRESIDENT PLAYS-WITH-DICK

I am heartened by the news that our former Vice President is showing strong numbers going into the Democratic National Convention, which is wisely being done virtually due to the pandemic.  If memory serves me correctly, Hillary Clinton was enjoying a similar lead over The Donald in the summer of 2016 and she ended up losing anyway.

Then the Access Hollywood tape surfaced which showed The Donald bragging about his ability to treat women — live, breathing women with souls — like they were nothing more than a play thing to be grabbed, used and thrown over his shoulder when he finished playing with them.  Such a revelation previously spelled the end of many (male) political careers and by all rights it should have ended The Donald’s race to the Oval Office.

And Hillary still lost…

Keep it up Uncle Joe!   You don’t far to go now!

(Thank you for reading, and as the late Michael Conrad would always say in Hill Street Blues: “Let’s be careful out there.”)