How About A New Year's Resolution: Disagree but Don't Annihilate

Perhaps if we all set better examples as citizens, President Trump might realize his base doesn't provide a basis for his bad form and manners. Throwing down the gauntlet in regard to the funding for the Southern border wall, he said,

"I am proud to shut down the government for border security." There is no pride in putting people out of work- he could have made the same decision, and described it as dire.

In the course of making a case for why a historic Savings Bank should be demolished to make way for his new mixed use development on Sunset Strip, architect Frank Gehry said Richard Meir's landmark architecture was a category of building that "outlive its time" and, besides, "That's where my crane goes." If only his brutish remarks were intended to have been an homage to the bank's "brutalist" style of architecture, but he claimed no allusion to the Lost Language of Cranes either. It seems Gehry's speaking style has none of the polish of his world renowned titanium surfaces- crust rather than brushed.

When Diane Feinstein announced her candidacy for another term in the Senate, critics played the "ageist" card. You may not like her views or the way she has endured over a career, in which she has become one of the most powerful forces in the Senate, but she is the same age as Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and no one seems to be complaining she's wearing the same institutional robe SCOTUS was first issued even though nun's habits have been fashion forward, by comparison, and no one seems to have an issue about the separation of church and state as her most fervent supporters have gone from wishing her well, to praying, at least once or twice a day.

The vitriol against electric scooters has been over the top- still not nearly as dangerous as BMW drivers, nor as entitled as many bike riders or people who drive a Prius. Watch out- you may get hit, hurt or pregnant riding a scooter, but you are guaranteed to tick people off. Is anyone else reminded of another trend similar to this one- that seemed to come out of nowhere and shake people up for better and worse? It had the same basic premise- a new kind of locomotion that called for planting your feet firmly in place, then- away you go.

Whenever I get on an electric scooter, I feel like a dead ringer for Elvis Presley doing the Twist.

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