In the mean time

   As a blogger and a (now occasional) columnist, I feel that it’s important that I keep up with the news. Also, I confess that I’m a news junkie – or, really, a politics junkie.  I am fascinated by how people get power and what they do with it. 

   But, lately, this interest, passion or addiction(?) hasn’t been good for me.  Lately, the news has left me very upset and angry, even enraged.  Politics is often rough and can be outrageous, but these days, politics have gotten downright mean, downright cruel, never mind stupid. 

   What else can you say when governors, as in Georgia, are outlawing mask-wearing mandates, making it illegal to say people have to wear a mask when COVID-19 cases are soaring and thousands are getting unbearably sick, if not dying? This is outrageous.  It’s insanity. It’s also cruel, when wearing mask can prevent illness and save lives.      

   There’s also the two guys, seen on a youtube video (ttps://youtu.be/3Q3PSISAZL8) getting harassed and even cussed out when they try to hand out free masks in Orange County – the same county not far from here where the health director received a death threat and resigned after mandating masks and a education committee advised that school campuses open next month without mask-wearing and social distancing and where coronavirus cases are spiking.

   We have all heard about this and other such stupidly these days. I can go on for pages (I already have!) But have you heard that, as recently reported on the PBS News Hour, the Trump administration is rolling back hunting regulations put in place by President Obama and now say that you can hunt bears using bacon and doughnuts? To clarify, you will now be able to entice, to lure bears with doughnuts and bacon and then kill them.  Not unlike shooting fish in a barrel. 

   That’s just mean and cruel.  There’s no other reason, no other way to explain it.