Tidbits From the 'Burbs

Well the stock market seems to be in a period where more people want to sell than buy… hopefully if you are invested you can ride it out.  As in keeping with today's media reality I assume President Trump will be blamed for this global pull back, the only difference is he probably won’t be tweeting about how it’s his fault, although a tweet or two about how much worse it would be without him seems a possibility.

I first arrived in this town about 15,000 days ago; give or take a week.  The beaches were white, the weather fair, the flying great.  Back then I could drive my little red Subaru from Fort Walton Beach all the way to Panama City and see the ocean almost the whole way.  Back then the village of Destin was unheard of.  Today far more people know about Destin than Fort Walton, and I don’t think you can see more than a couple of miles of ocean on the drive to Panama City.  Development is a two-edged sword, and why our National Parks should stay pristine.  This is one area I really disagree with the administration on.

Football season has ended.  We didn’t watch too much of the game, but what we saw was pretty thrilling.  The commercials, on the other hand, seem to be going downhill.  I’m so old I remember when the games were boring and the commercials great.  Now we get car commercials filled with social commentary.  I don’t know about everyone else, but social justice is certainly one of my primary considerations in choosing a new car.  I was impressed by the series of Tide commercials but wondered why they didn’t have to have a warning in each one that Tide should not be eaten as a snack.

With the end of football, we are about to enter the baseball season.  The big news seems to be a whole bunch of players have opted for free-agency and the owners don’t seem all that interested in paying them what they think they are worth.  Maybe it has to do with lessons from paying past players big dollars only to have their performance decline, or maybe it’s because there are enough young players they don’t think they need to pay the older guys as much.  There is a union contract in place and as long as both sides are doing what the contract calls for, I don’t know what the problem is.  As someone who believes in the capitalist concept of supply and demand, I’m just an interested bystander.

There is a new music video out from Elon Musk and Space-X that shows them launching their Tesla on a Falcon Heavy, with Mars as the destination.  By the way, how much pollution have we already left on Mars?  Does anyone know and does Waste Management have a plan to clean it up?

It is day 128 of the Skeleton Apocalypse – Quinton Tarantino is attempting to explain how he isn’t really connected to the original source of the apocalypse.  Good luck with that.  Larry Nassar will be going away for the rest of his life (unless overturned on appeal), one can only hope it is to a prison filled with people who’ve heard his story and can take good care of him.  It would seem the FBI was not all that responsive to his victims who sought their help, taking over a year to investigate the charges.  I’d hate to think it was because they were more interested in the election than the victims.