The Last Word 9/2020
The Last Word 9/2020
The Last Word 9/2020
https://www.politicalcompass.org
Here’s a description of that site in case you’re afraid a box of Fun Snaps will fly out of your computer
screen and explode all at once. That site includes a political quiz that gives you a score based on how liberal or
conservative you are. The score consists of 2 numbers, each ranging from -10 to 10. One score is for economic
views, and the other is for social views.
I took this test years ago and did quite well. But some of the questions have probably changed in the years
since, so now I’ve taken it again. On the economic scale, I scored a perfect -10—a solid leftist score. On the social
scale, I garnered a -7.13—cool also. Taken together, these scores represent pure alt-left populism.
There should be a third scale just to accommodate all the entitled, self-centered crybabies lately who have
carved out an ideology of their own that defies the principles that the others claim to offer. They can’t very well
claim to be noble middle ground when their ideas would have been considered extreme just a few months ago.
Some observers have said the ideologies of some leaders in other parts of the world—such as communist
countries—can’t be categorized as left-wing or right-wing by Western definitions. I think that holds true here.
A few questions on this quiz aren’t even about policy, but I’ve seen other political quizzes where it was
even more so. They would ask things like whether you’re more interested in going to a baseball game than an art
museum. For starters, most people aren’t interested in just one thing. That’s why Ballet News used to advertise
during Headbangers Ball. For another, people who designed these quizzes can’t seem to fathom that not
everybody who goes to a ballgame cares about the stock market.
Maybe users of Democratic Blunderground will call us “hillbillies” and “dirtbag left” or encourage
violence again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8XDFNQ3Qk
That’s another Snuffleupagus moment! Those commercials date from the late 1970s and early 1980s, and
I was floored when I saw them suddenly airing again a decade later. But that came a few years before I saw a man
drop a hamburger on the floor at Wendy’s and pick it back up and eat it.
“Winchester Cathedral” actually won a Grammy before the band was even formed—so a band had to be
quickly assembled to perform the song on tour.
People who say “I know, I know, I know, I know, I know!” are cool
These folks are kings among men, queens among women, monarchs among people!
We’ve all met people who—when someone tells them something that’s obvious or already known—reply,
“I know, I know, I know, I know, I know!” They always blurt it out rapid-fire.
Person 1: “Me And Maxx is a TV show, not a radio show.”
Person 2: “I know, I know, I know, I know, I know!”
When I was in elementary school, a teacher told the class that this was rude. Well, sometimes rude is
necessary. Some people state obvious things as if you’re a moron or something, and they need to be knocked
down a few pegs every now and then.
“Accidentally blew a bubble with the gum I was chewing while wearing a mask. What a
mess.”
How can you accidentally blow a bubble? I always thought of bubbling as being a very deliberate and
planned activity. It’s a bit like scheduling the music on a radio station. I was in radio, and there was a method to
the madness. You might follow a new record with an oldie and repeat this pattern throughout the hour. It’s the
same with bubbling. A bubbunk might be followed by a Dallas/Fort Worth, which in turn might be followed by
some good ol’ ruined glasses.
A woman had this to say on her Twitter feed...
“I was chewing gum, my dumbass forgot I was wearing a mask and blew a bubble...”
I was chewing a mask, my dumbass forgot I was wearing gum and blew a mask.