Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

I’ll cop to a major character flaw. I like the McRib. I absolutely crave those greasy death bombs! I assume you’re sane and won’t touch anything that gross. Good for you. It means there’s extra pressed pork mystery meat for … Continue reading →

Mondays in the Bidenverse are surreal. I show up to work like always. I do my job like always. But each Monday I begin by wondering if I actually have a job at all. We all know that keeping a … Continue reading →

I’ve posted a little bit about how my job may be in jeopardy due to the vax mandate. I haven’t said much because I cherish privacy. Also, I’d rather not let my job monopolize more pleasant (and important!) parts of … Continue reading →

Shit’s crazy lately. The stupidity leads to weirdness. Weirdness leads to instability. Standing around wondering how completely fucked we’re going to be before stability returns… if it ever will… is making us all tense. It’s the weekend. I invite y’all … Continue reading →

Like many (most?) employees, I was ordered to take the vaccine. I resisted. I’m not naïve. I know nobody cares about an employee. I’m probably toast. Here’s why I didn’t comply: If there’s a line… a needle in your vein … Continue reading →

[Warning: Forgive me for philosophizing. Recently, I feel like I can almost but not quite grasp the infinite. Skip today’s post (and tomorrow’s) if you wish.] A month ago I mentioned my job was in jeopardy: “Today I told my … Continue reading →

I’d like to thank society for (barely) holding it’s shit together. I took a week and a half (mostly) off grid holiday. The word was already on fire. It wasn’t completely reduced to ash while I was gone. Yay. A … Continue reading →

Also read this. This was all baked into the cake back in March 2020 when governors started deciding if restaurants could be open and how workplaces would operate. It was unavoidable from that moment. It took a while for the … Continue reading →

menticide (n): the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person’s values and beliefs, as by the use of prolonged interrogation, drugs, torture, etc., and to induce radically different ideas. Yesterday I wandered in the weeds. I added a spare … Continue reading →

If you learn nothing else from 2020 (a year which is now 23 months long) it’s this: Propaganda works on you even if you know it’s propaganda. We’ve all experienced it. You spend all day in a world where the … Continue reading →