Won't get fooled again...The Who

I have been played for a fool. I put something up that a respondent—one of my Constant Readers—quickly pointed out was an internet hoax; a “missing” kid who is either too-good looking or an imaginary net product. I react too quickly; I didn’t want another corpse somewhere.

Okay, I got fooled. Fool me again like the Who song, the shotguns rule. I said my peace about men with guns coming to take control. I’m easy, I’ll go quietly. Not! to quote the vernacular. My bad. John Boorman did a movie called “Red Dawn” in 1984; does anyone remember that Orwellian prophecy? The year passed. And it wasn’t the end of the world. The Jews surrendered quietly to Hitler. Boorman had a shot of a bumper sticker saying “they’ll pry my gun from my cold, dead fingers”, and a Soviet soldier doing just that. We don’t fight Commies, and just for shits and grins I induced Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove” on my substitute-teacher high-school class. We all need a good laugh at the world ending. “Auf weidersen!”

I get fooled often. I thought I answered a teenager about Army service and facing the fact that people die. As the British say, this chap may have been having me on. The e-mail is invalid. Anything profound I said about service to country is wasted, and will be used against me like a Miranda right.

There is a lot going on these days. As distasteful as I found him, I voted for the other guy. I am at the point of returning to “The Manchurian Candidate”, “Osama Bamalama” and other negative references. I have never seen America so close to socialism.

You bought him, you pay for him.

Stay out of my wallet, and off my hillside.

I have a few nudges about closing Gitmo, but that seems to be sliding farther back on the priority list.