If calendar year 2024 was a game, it would have been named Dungeons and Dummies: Where frightened people -- on both the left and the right -- were fooled into taking actions that ended up letting Chaotic Evil become Lawful Evil.
If 2025 were a game, it would be called Call of Doody, because it was crap.
And not just because we lost:
* From sports: Bob Uecker, Davey Johnson, Dave Parker, Ryne Sandberg, Fay Vincent, Bobby Jenks, George Foreman, Denis Law, Ricky Hatton, Billy Bonds and Diego Jota.
* From acting: Robert Redford, Diane Keaton, Gene Hackman, Val Kilmer, Claudia Cardinale, Graham Greene, Richard Chamberlain, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Michelle Trachtenberg and Rob Reiner.
* From music: Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, Cleo Laine, Connie Francis, Marianne Faithfull, Sly Stone, Ozzy Osbourne, Jimmy Cliff and Roberta Flack.
* From science: James Watson, Jane Goodall and Frank Gehry.
* From writing: Maria Vargos Llosa.
* And also: Pope Francis, Giorgio Armani and JFK granddaughter and budding journalist Tatiana Schlossberg.
Nor was it only a bad year because most of the sports results were bad. Although the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl.
No, 2025 was a bad year because the ugly bloated bigoted spectre of Trump hovered over everything.
Maybe things will get better in 2026, even as he messes with the 250th Anniversary of our independence and the World Cup on home soil.
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