The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

I think if I hear one more news story about Covid or the omicron variant or vaccinations or mask wearing or social distancing, I’ll go out and overdose myself with horse dewormers . Enough is never really enough for the news media. Pandemic pandemic panfriggingdemic already!

So now I’m saturated with warnings about the coming war in Eurasia. No, wait, Ukraine. The enemy is massing troops on the border, the enemy is waging cyberwarfare. The enemy is staging war games in Belarus. The cold war is about to get hot! The war is imminent! There will be heavy sanctions if the enemy invades. The drumbeat is insistent, the drumbeat is getting louder, the drumbeat is driving me batshit crazy!

And we’re not even talking yet about Taiwan.. Well, we are, but the drumbeat of the Other Enemy drowns out the warnings about the Not-so-Sleepy Tiger. I swear, it’s enough to drive a man to drugs. Geez, yeah, there’s that opioid crisis too. And partisan politics. Don’t forget the January 6th insurrection or the voter suppression laws or the Roe v. Wade reversal coming. Book bans and critical race theory fights, the Big Lie and Republicans who are convinced Trump won by a landslide. I don’t want to get out of bed in the morning and I sure don’t want to hear story after story repeated endlessly. I think I got the Message already!!!!!

And don’t even think about bringing up Global Warming or Climate Change. Let’s just agree that those whackjob goobers who think Armaggedon is tomorrow, welcome it in fact, well, okay! The anti-Christ is on his way, the End is Near, the Time is Now, I get it, I live in an insane asylum and I no longer assume I’m the sane one. Happy?

Let’s just say it’s time to turn the damn dial. Time to put on some music, read a good novel, play a banjo and take a walk on the beach. Time to check out for awhile, listen to the tide turn, wait for spring. I got fruit trees to prune, a garden fence to build, wood to split and bring in for next year, a life to live. Gotta start somewhere, maybe today. I want two plus two to equal four again. Is that too much to ask?

Hits: 13