Monday, February 2, 2026

Random Notes from a Crank

Before Sunday I had no idea what a scorpion kick was, but now I know. Thanks Dominic Solanke. 


And COYS. 

In another special election, this time in Texas, Taylor Rehmet won a State Senate seat in a conservative district that President Adolf won by 17 percentage points. Rehment won it by 14 percentage points: 57 to 43. 

I'm looking forward to all whining about the Super Bowl halftime show with Green Day and Bad Bunny performing. 

MAGA supporters are truly American idiots. 

President Adolf and his lawyerly goons just had another federal judge hand them a loss in trying to shut down a wind farm that is 35 miles away from the coast of New York state (Montauk Point). The Interior department argued that the wind farms were somehow a threat to "national security." 

Nonsense. 

What a bunch of nitwits and losers. They are 0 for 5 in shutting wind farm projects on the east coast. 

Where I live in east central Illinois got a lot of snowfall like most of the upper Midwest this winter. However, unlike where I grew up in Iowa, my town has no law that homeowners who have sidewalks on their property have to shovel them. 

That fact pisses me off. 

I walk my dogs in the winter unless it's unbearably cold, but I'm reduced to walking up and down my cul de sac when sidewalks are not shoveled. And my dogs need walked for a good length of time. They're not being walked very long right now, and they're driving me crazy with having to go out in the backyard so often. 

Plus, as I'm driving around town, because sidewalks are not shoveled, people are just walking on the side of the street, which is dangerous.