Welcome to the Third Degree: Tough, Brief, Weekly Interrogations on matters public and private that force thinking and response. This Sunday we target: Risibility

  • Does 49 BC and Alea lacta Est, Caesar crossing the Rubicon, have application for America this post-election Sunday?
  • Is it risible or right that the “cast die” meaning, metaphor and mental image of Trump crossing the river brings shivers of fear and foreboding?
  • Is Trump really Charon (now there’s a missed epithet in the spate of name calling and labelling) ready to exact payment and transport democracy across the river to Hades?
  • Worse than Hades, maybe Haiti, that island pearl of great price Americans have paid for repetitively over the years?
  • Did you note opportunity but refusal to use the term refuse island?
  • Anyway?
  • On self-created, River Styx, shore Is the wailing of the waiting (late night hosts, unrepentant media generally, fight to the end Democrat governors, and Hollywooders, to name a few), in fact, risible?
  • Was it manifold failure of performance and inability to convert an American majority to a government gospel seen as too expansive, expensive, and progressive in the worst sense of the word?
  • Is it the great fear of the global warming/climate change, chicken little cohort, and the faithful, far left, plus controlling activists, ideologies and theologies, that they have been found out and found to be wanting?
  • Worse, greater than their ceaseless dissatisfaction, angst, anger and criticism, is their greater fear, that somewhere out there someone actually may be having fun, able to take and make a non-pc joke and not require coddling?
  • Is it risible or right that the Biden-Harris team will try to cement legacy over the next 71 days till they cross over the river, so to speak?
  • What will that legacy enshrine that has not been rejected?
  • Is it risible or right that the American river is at flood stage with swollen policies and personnel and to get the river under control, navigable for the nation, will be no easy task and take a strong hand on the tiller?
  • For us in the boat, no joke, better buckle up and help row like hell?

Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” The answers and actions are yours.