Recent Comments

1. over 4 years ago on Pluggers

   … different sizes, and ALL too small!

2. over 7 years ago on Peanuts

   I can’t imagine the courage it took to wade ashore!

3. almost 8 years ago on Non Sequitur

   It’s a shame that the election was divisive; I didn’t find that either candidate was worth supporting.

   I don’t remember any election in the past 60-70 years that instantly had sometimes violent reaction to the results.

   If memory serves (and often it doesn’t ;-) ), every year, I accepted the results, and considered the winner as my President. I’m sad not so much at the election results, as at violent reactions to it.

   Perhaps this election was not so much about support for a candidate, as it was a vote against the status quo or perceived corruption.

   Many who voted for Obama also voted for Trump. Many past Presidents did not do what they said they would do. There wasn’t a lot of discussion about the actual issues in the country.

   Apparently, many people only talk to those who agree with them, and cannot imagine having a civil conversation with those who support the other candidate.

   There were a lot of accusations on both sides. Information as well as disinformation was widely and quickly spread by the Internet. It was difficult to make heads or tails out of things.

   I find it hard to believe that roughly half of our country truly has values totally scorned by the other half. There’s got to be a lot of common ground.

   Few of us had personal knowledge of what these people were, what they stood for, how they thought and made decisions. I certainly don’t know either candidate personally. I realize that I made my decision without dead certainty of what the candidate would do.

   As such, I realize that part of my decision was emotional rather than rational. People are sure to fault me for this, but most others must’ve done this too.

   However, it is what it is.

   Time to move on and give our new president the traditionai 100 days, to see what they will do.

   Time to put emotion aside, accept the situation, and move on.