Ponderables

One particular question sparked this, so one can try to figure out which one it is.  In the meantime, other questions have cropped up, basically writing this blogpost for me:

--  Carmelo Anthony, the basketball player, is encouraging other athletes to stand up and become more civically involved.  Forgive my cynicism, but his idea of activism, no matter how hard he tries to gussy it up as something praiseworthy and noble, rings just a little bit hollow.  Why?  Am I the only one who remembers that Anthony was in a video called Stop Snitching?  Wasn't the person who produced that video sentenced to twenty years in jail?  Is Anthony going to publicly repudiate his involvement -- allegedly he already has, but if so, I missed it -- and tell black youth that they have a duty to cooperate with police?  Has hell frozen over yet?

--  If Karen and I host a dinner party and invite vegan or vegetarian guests, it's expected that we'll serve something to accommodate their tastes.  If vegan or vegetarian hosts invite omnivores to their houses, will they do the same and have meat on the menu?

--  If the state is going to have construction efforts going on at night, and drivers are required to drive no more than 45 MPH in construction zones, why does it have the work going on right by the lane dividers while there's a six inch drop off on the right side of the lane?

--  Why does anyone suggest that blondes have more fun when redheads are more fun?

--  Who greenlights commercials for products on television?  I mean, some of these ads are moronic in the extreme.  Does the advertiser have final say or is there a term in these contracts that gives them refunds for horribly devised and executed advertisements?

--  The chatter today is whether Melania Trump's speech last night plagiarized Michelle Obama's from eight years ago.  Interesting.  Did anyone in the MSM raise the fact that Jesse Jackson's patchwork quilt speech was lifted from an earlier speech?

--  Why is it that churches are always the First Presbyterian this, the First Methodist that?  Why is there never a Seventeeth Unitarian Church, or a One Hundred and Second Congregational House of Worship?  Everyone can't possibly be first, can they?

--  Blue ink or black ink?

--  If we expect moderate Muslims to turn on the so-called radicalized Islamists who are doing their best to make a mockery of their religion, why don't we expect police to turn on bad cops who are indiscriminately gunning down (largely) innocent black men and then trying to claim that they had no other option?

--  With a record such as the one Cankles brandishes, who in his right mind would vote for that person, history or not?

--  That being said, who really wants to vote for Mr. Celebrity Apprentice?  Isn't that like taking a spoonful of castor oil because no matter how bad it tastes, it's supposedly good?

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