I have begun to dislike those days when we experience natural phenomena such as a solar eclipse. There is always a bunch of morons who simply enjoy publishing certifiable stupidity just to get under the skin of those who would otherwise enjoy watching a wondrous free show put on by mother nature. Though, there is a small part of me, (a very small part of me), that is severely disappointed that the world did not actually end as predicted. It would have been nice to miss all of the massive electoral idiocy that we will now have to endure for the next seven months. Or even being annoyed that the Rapture did not elevate those other fools and leave the rest of us down here in peace. I am already surrounded by religious zealots who, without any provocation, will always insist on telling me that what I believe is so completely wrong that I will never ascend into heavenly bliss. I am so unhappy that this did not occur and that all of those self-righteous saints are still left down here with us happy sinners.
Of course, there was also an earthquake a few days ago, (hundreds every day someplace on the planet), that alone set off a wild feeding frenzy of end of times believers. Then there are the QAnon pizza parlors used to sex-traffic gay Republicans who will be sent to invade Ukraine for the Russians. Add in a conspiracy by Taylor Swift to infiltrate the NFL and also to overturn the presidential election and another to destroy all the bridges on the East coast by container ships, and of course the coming massive plague of locusts, (cicadas actually), then it is plain for those of us too stupid to see the signs and portents, that we are living on borrowed time. Oh yes, and your taxes are due next Monday.
It has to be that some really enjoy playing the fool, that they love to tell the rapidly declining majority of us regular people that we are way too stupid to understand the real nature of the universe. Perhaps the reason nothing happened to us and the world did not actually end is because that these events are not world ending in themselves, a very easy concept to grasp, if you are normal enough in the head. However throw an asteroid at the planet or keep putting CO2 in the atmosphere in massive amounts then perhaps we will see something actually occur to cause some real problems. And then maybe, all those squeaking, mewing idiots will actually be right for the first time in 65 million years.
(I am sure that I missed mentioning Big Foot, UFOs and the Loch Ness Monster, oh well, next blog. There has to be some other world-ending event coming soon to a planet near you. Below, me attending to a telescope during the 2017 solar eclipse where it was only 92% of totality where we were. Thank goodness it wasn’t a 100%, I might have gotten sucked up into a vortex.)
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