It’s hard to keep up

Lately it seems to be hard to keep up with all the…what shall we call it? Shenanigans, to pull a phrase out of the past. Or maybe BS. Or whatever.

There’s been a couple of school districts that have decided that banning certain books is a good idea. Not sure why though. The excuse is because he books have nudity and profanity I guess. Hmmm. A healthier way to deal with that might be to have a conversation. Besides, the books being banned are actually about far worse things than showing skin and cuss words — things like how cruel and merciless humanity can be to one another. That seems far worse than a few swear words. I’m having trouble keeping up with whether cancel culture is a good thing or not. I guess it just depends on who is yielding it as a weapon and against who.

I’m having trouble keeping up with all the hysteria at school board meetings. Are the people who go and scream and make fools of themselves their to actually make a point or is this their therapy session with a world in chaos? CRT, masks, vaccinations, oh my. It’s tough to keep track of all the things that one is supposed to be outraged over, even it isn’t actually taught in school or has nothing to do with freedom.

I’m having trouble keeping track of the latest thing I’m supposed to be outraged over outside of schools too. Is it M & M’s or Mini Mouse? I don’t know why companies changing the way their characters look is causing an outrage. Companies do that from time to time after all — this isn’t anything new. I wonder which children’s toy/candy we’re…