The pronouncements that make me shake my head--

"We will be creating so much electricity that you'll be saying, please, please, President, we don't want any more electricity. We can't stand it. You'll be begging me, no more electricity, sir. We have enough. We have enough." --DJT, July, 2024

I am reminded of a piece titled My Life and Hard Times by American humorist James Thurber, in which he talks about a family member who is deeply suspicious of electricity:

"She came naturally by her confused and groundless fears, for her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up she would hastily and fearfully turn off the wall switch...happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but a dangerous leakage. Nothing could ever clear this up for her."

Thurber's stories delve deeply into the quirky nature of human beings, and they are a true source of amusement and never-ending shaking of the reader's head. I only wish that DJT was merely amusing, a strange, doddering old man on the fringes of American life, instead of a presidential contender. How anyone can take him seriously at all is beyond me, and, if it were not so damned frightening, I'd laugh. Malapropisms and wanderings-off into word-salad-dressed diatribes are the fodder for late-night skits, not for national politics. 

We can safely chuckle somewhat fondly at the pronouncements of such cultural heroes as Yogi Berra, who said, "He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious."

He also said, and this is wise advice, "If you come to a fork in the road, take it."

I think that's our cue.

C