An editorial comment ... maybe an explanation, I dunno.

I’ve gone through this before, but I want to repeat it.

Of the two of us who do most of the reading around here one of us is retired … me … and the other, despite claims of being gainfully employed hasn’t done an honest day’s work in years, possibly decades.

This provides the two of us with the awesome blessing of time to read.

You can choose to believe this or not but we do sit and read almost all of it from one end of the spectrum to the other and have come away with the following conclusion:

What is going on around here lately is an epic, inevitable, multigenerational, international reset wherein nothing promoted by either the professional left or right has a snowball’s chance in hell of even mitigating, let alone preventing the slow motion train wreck that is upon us.

To the contrary, that which is being promoted by both professional ends of the political spectrum … basically more of the same … is the express cause of all of our problems.

More distressing still, most of that which is being offered as solutions to this horor is specifically designed to benefit only the small group of insiders and their lackeys who presently control the world’s financial system, the media, this country's two major political parties along with much if not most of the rest of the western world, and who by the way also caused this whole frickin nightmare in the first place ..... all at the expense of the ordinary citizen.

And finally we have sadly concluded that the notion held amongst the partisan faithful of the world that if we can just get or keep our guy in power, everything is gonna turn out alright is … to be unkind about it … delusional.

I will also cheerfully admit to being a shameless troll.

I bring this up because this past week I had the distinct pleasure of simultaneously engaging over a 36 hour period of time my favorite Socialist, my favorite NeoCon and one of my all time favorite people on this earth whom I have never actually met, but who happens to be the one individual I have ever known to have continually flummoxed any of the common political labels anyone could possibly pin on another person, with the possible exception of flake.

As an aside, all three of the above would vehemently deny my characterization of their thinking but ... you know ... I just call em like I see em.

Anyway, during a short one hour and 45-minute period of time one evening this week, I was accused of being a "Lying Republican", a "Liberal" and a “Failed Hippy”.

I don’t care who you are that’s pretty damn good work.