Now and then, one of those loaded questions rears its ugly head and initiates a personal challenge regarding a response. This, is one of those times.

“Write about something that has bothered you this week” landed on my computer screen and it felt like an entire pack of fireworks exploded in my brain. Really people, unless you’re all living under a rock somewhere, how can you not feel somewhat reactive to the insanity currently around us? Aside from those issues that come and go, our world has been in a cataclysmic spin for several years now, from the orchestrated/manufactured pandemic, the endless political bullcrap and, presently, our institutions of higher learning currently having students demonstrating behaviors similar to campus mosh pits.

How can anyone not be bothered, angry, even disgusted? Our country is shamefully turning its back on Israel in favor of militant extremists who are orchestrating chaos at colleges in this country, a majority of individuals who are outside agitators, not matriculated students of these universities. The issue of having the right to protest is completely understood, it is a right of free speech which should never be denied to anyone but not when it is fueled by violence, directed at other nationalities or religions and at law enforcement. By all means, speak up, speak out and do so with some element of intelligence and awareness of just why in hell you are perched on some soapbox of entitlement, just outside an REI tent. Spare us all from the rhetoric of these modern day, entitled, whiners, more concerned with staying hydrated and being served organic and vegan substances while they occupy and vandalize college campuses.

Over on the “left coast”, the governor of California recently perched himself, and his sparkly teeth, on top of the Golden Gate Bridge, citing the beauty of the state while ignoring the decaying San Francisco streets in the distance, many littered with homeless people, drug addicts and increasing crime. Periodically, this heartbreaking collection of deteriorating humanity is cleaned up, relocated, and basically swept under the rug in an attempt to revive the failing tourism of this once beautiful city by the sea.

Here on the “right coast”, we have a former president on trial with an aging, “rode hard, put away wet”, porn star sitting in a witness stand, spewing out comments (when she’s not talking with the dead) geared mainly to bring herself some element of financial subsidy and way, way, more than fifteen minutes of fame. Her testimony in no way fits the overall legal issues for the basis of this trial but she’s being used as a political pawn in an attempt to interfere with upcoming presidential elections. Frankly, I don’t care about which side of the political coin anyone stands. This courtroom circus sideshow demeans all of us as American citizens and as a country. Democrat, Republican or whatever in hell you label yourself as, to be so diabolically focused on supporting those seeking to destroy a candidate and interfering with the campaign and overall election process, demonstrates weakness and desperation, definitely not on doing the absolute best for anyone in our country. For what it’s worth, I’m personally not a fan of any current presidential hopeful, especially the current head of our country who has turned into a maniacal and very sad conductor on a runaway train of leadership.

So, as this writing prompt asked, I responded. Take a long, hard, look around the life which surrounds us and weep, as I do, for the future.