Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

[This post was typed a few days ago. I didn’t get time to finish it. Done or not I’d all along pre-planned a “media vacation” and time was up. Rather than submit to further media asshattery I set this half … Continue reading →

The. Cubs. Won. Normally I don’t pay attention to sportsball but… holy shit! The. Cubs. Won. It has been an immutable law of the universe. It existed my whole life. It simply is what it is; gravity points down, the … Continue reading →

America and Russia spent decades poised to blow each other (and everyone else) into tiny radioactive bits. It built and it built and it built…. and then poof… over a few short years mutually assured destruction faded away. The great … Continue reading →

Knowledge is power but it is not immunity. “I can feel my reaction time slowing, my speech and balance are affected” says the rational brain. Meanwhile the rest of the body is doing the fifth shot of Jagermeister. The fact … Continue reading →

A week ago I was baffled by news reports showing Hillary steadily gaining and Trump sinking in the mud. I drove 400 miles and saw only three Hillary yard signs amid perhaps a couple hundred Trump signs. I do not … Continue reading →

[Mrs. Curmudgeon wonders how I can hate a car as much as I flake out over the AMC Gremlin. All I can say is she never rode in one. (A commenter Rickrolled me with one once. Well played!)] For some … Continue reading →

[I fell off the “no politics” bandwagon and was thinking of another Trump/Hillary sign count on another roadtrip. Then this event happened and I was so addled I totally forgot about everything as I drove. I really really really hate that … Continue reading →

The news reports Hillary steadily gaining and Trump dying in a fire. I just drove 400 miles and saw only three Hillary yard signs amid perhaps a couple hundred Trump signs. (I lost count of Trump signs, a loss to … Continue reading →

[This post late, it was lost to and retrieved from the “cloud”. Also, were we at cyberwar on Friday? WTF?!?] I recently drove from nowhere to nowhere in a “blue state”. Well; that’s not entirely true because there are no … Continue reading →