This or That

On this date in History - 13 years ago Today (frack i am old...) - I was That Guy (or possible This Guy, the record seems not entirely clear).

It's approaching high summer, and in any other year Milwaukee would be looking at the SummerFest lineup each evening and choosing which nights to dive in to the crowds and see some cool new (and old) bands.

Instead, today, i googled (and learned) the definition of comorbidity.  Which sucks.

I have no wisdom or insight for us today, but only that we are breaking, my friends.  Our whole civilization.  And I think it's easy to blame Republicans (or leftists, if you're of a certain persuasion) or anyone else, really.  And there are plenty of people who are on the right track, but our problem is all of it.  

Those of us who are good liberals, but have some nice stuff, we want to keep having it - eating out and having nice cocktails and gym memberships (or spin classes; i think i mentioned earlier that i am so old) and cars and frequent flyer miles and dogs... all good stuff for the dogs.

We are the next #okBoomers and we like to pretend that we aren't.  Our refusal to be radical and rail against (and ultimately give up what we have) is kind of the problem.  I do not mean that middle class folks are the real problem in the face of billionaires (and multi-millionaires), but we are enablers.  No matter how much we don't want to be...