{"id":1877,"date":"2023-06-25T07:44:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/insideourgooeyminds\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2023-06-25T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T14:44:13","slug":"crazy-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/insideourgooeyminds\/2023\/06\/crazy-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Times!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1880\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1880 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1451\/2023\/06\/dogs-hugging-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dogs\/Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #003300;\">CRAZY TIMES!<\/span><\/h2>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I think I would like to go back in time, to several different seasons, and see if it was clearly as nutso as it is now. Crazy times we live!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">It wouldn\u2019t be obvious ones, like World War I or its sequel, II. That was pretty clear I wager.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u2026an entire generation\u2026.<\/span><\/h3>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The sixties were pretty interesting. It was the first time, an entire generation, or parts of that generation, stood up and said \u2018I think I look good in long hair, what\u2019s wrong with a three-day music concert in a muddy cow pasture, and eating mushrooms I bought from a guy in an alley named the <em>Package Man<\/em> seems reasonable.\u2019<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">I don\u2019t know, but the last few years, heck, the last couple of years, seems like it\u2019s in the lead for all time Looney-Tunes Show of the Week.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Here are just a few examples. Don\u2019t get me wrong, they don\u2019t keep me up at night. I\u2019m past the \u2018sell by date\u2019 in my life to give it much worry\u2014or any worry at all. They either get fixed or we live in caves.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">I can live in a cave.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">But let me just throw a few spit balls out there.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u2026we have sent\u2026.<\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">We have people, employees of ours past and present, we have sent to this town called Washington, and we can\u2019t tell if they are telling the truth or not. Worse, we can\u2019t tell if the press is as well. Where is Walter when you need him?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">We have some of those employees telling us something, and some drunk stoned guy had a laptop with notes and correspondence with some other guys, talking about paying each other money with lots of zeros simply because one guy has the cell phone number of another guy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We have allllll kinds of new terms, like <em>trans-gender.<\/em> From what I understand, you can change your sex, now called \u2018gender,\u2019 by simply <em>thinking<\/em> it and we get to choose a pronoun. I wish it was like a name, maybe an adjective! I would like to be called<em> \u2018Your Most Regal Majesty.<\/em>\u2018 Maybe too fluffy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Not only that, but you can also change your species too. Like you can be a furry animal and require the government to put a litterbox in your restroom at your elementary school.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">On top of that, you have doctors, probably from Texas, sitting at a bar. Texas doctors sitting at a bar always talk about how to fix things, especially after three scotches. They, I am sure, came up with the idea of puberty blockers and surgeries for children. Probably drew it out on a napkin.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u2026store security\u2026.<\/span><\/h3>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Apparently now, stores let you steal them blind. They have store security, but the store doesn\u2019t want anyone arrested for fear of an attorney who got his degree on line might sue them. Their management doesn\u2019t even want the police involved. Just let the insurance cover it, and pass that cost on to, well, me.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">We apparently think it is cool now to have an electric car. Not a hybrid that will run on gas and actually get you to your brother\u2019s house in San Diego in the same day. Nope, all electric. With a big ass laptop screen in the middle of your dashboard so you have something to hit your head on after you deflect off the airbag. Apparently popular enough for other companies to get involved.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The idea is to not talk about the massive pollution to make the car and the fact you have to spend three times the time in Yuma to get half the charge to finish the trip to your brother\u2019s house in San Diego and, oh, wait, pay three times the amount for the car rather than a KIA or a Ford Edge. Don\u2019t let it catch on fire. You can\u2019t put it out with water. Just let it burn. Again, insurance has it.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Yeah, it\u2019s a $1.59.<\/span><\/h3>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Oh, and that $.69 cent head of lettuce? Yeah, it\u2019s a $1.59.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Now, some of us have been convinced to crawl into a metal tube and go to the bottom of the ocean, to look out a window the size of my John Deere hat to see a wreck of an old ship in poor lighting.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Lucky for me, I couldn\u2019t go because I would have to pee about seven times and you do that where the window is so someone would have to move-seven times. I think they give you an old coffee can for that.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Yep, kinda crazy times! But my dogs don\u2019t seem to mind so why should I?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">And yet, Dad has it all under watch and it is perfect. It is all part of His plan. 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