Welcome to the Third Degree: Tough, Brief, Weekly Interrogations on matters public and private that force thinking and response. This Sunday we target: Sideshow
Ever threaten or want to run away and join The Carny?
Was there youthful, or present, fascination with those neon lit, vacant lot, traveling attractions with a few rides, lots of games and the tawdry, but tempting, Ten-in-One sideshow?
Do aspects of contemporary American political life mirror the surging crowds (the tip) urged by a taste and pitch of free stuff to go inside and pay for acts that are strange, startling and suggestive?
Does the homeland defense fire eater, Secretary Whydorkus, dismay with his ability to hold off the border hoards with fiery insertions and assertions that all is secure?
Does the sham bicycle act, preferred transportation in a carbon free age, by Secretary Bleat Judgahmabooty compare to his hard hat and flak jacket act of drinking toxic water from train wrecked Ohio? Oh, it was Evian? Drink it backwards? How naïve?
Does cackling Kam, the yack woman, create freakish comments? If it ain’t WOKE, it’s toxic? But, she’s a first?
Is the second gentleman’s (oldwhat’shisname) just announced, so important, attack “toxic masculinity” act meant to be entertaining, embarrassing or emasculating? Castration counselled after the second trimester?
Has Secretary Autism swallowed the sword of combatting toxic masculinity with DOD DEI initiatives? Who wants a military full of toxic masculine soldiers when uber compassion and consideration can comfort and calm warlike spirits?
Are we toxically enraged or engaged by the bevy of Victoria’s Secret models? Precursors to the reborn, 2023, intimate apparel, fashion show, nothing like being reborn?
Is the fat lady intruding on sideshow acts with her stretched spandex haunches of hugeness best relegated to the Walmart parking lot or the White House staff? Toxicity everywhere?
Getting back to the sexy models of Victoria’s Secret, is it the toxic male who reminds the opposite sex (women, they still exist and can be defined), that they buy apparel, reportedly, to impress other women? Better ask Dr. Jill after she awakens toxic Hunter’s Dad from his daily naps?
“This way to the Egress”; with that successful blowoff is the sideshow over but on whom, or to what, will the tip turn? Is there really a way out?
Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living. The answers and actions remain yours.
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