Funky Boy

“Psychologists call it “learned helplessness” when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life.” JD Vance, Hillbilly Elegy I read that on Facebook today. I haven't read the book and it doesn't sound like one I might like so I probably won't. It's a good quote though. It is by the guy who called Trump an idiot who is probably the next vice president. Somebody called me a victim. I didn't respond. The point? I don't think I had one. Every dumb decision I made I made by myself. I worked a job I hated because I wasn't man enough to change things. I was fat and unhealthy because I hung around with dumb asses who did the same thing. Drunks shouldn't spend Saturday night with a drunk. I sat on my ass and waited for my ship to come in while telling you there was no damn ship. Nobody made my choices. My parents were tough who did their best. I am trying to get my life better after years of living a...

As many of my two readers know, I live in Brooklyn. I'm not in New York right now. I'm in Denver, hundreds of miles from that wanker who shot up my neighbors. I travel for my job and this week I'm in Colorado.  By the time you read this anything I say is old news.  I arrived here Sunday night and am teaching Monday-Thursday. I'll be home Thursday night. I am safe.

I was reading about James Stachowiak on Facebook. I looked him up. A wanker. No, I didn't find any pictures of him with his hands down his pants. The more I read about him, the more I guessed he probably tried and didn't find anything to grab onto, but who knows? Is he a member of the Daily Stormtrooper, aka, "Storm the Pooper," the YMCA of the alt-right? I wouldn't be surprised. Anything he had, he broke off rubbing it against some inanimate object when he was 13. Tiny, delicate things are prone to break. He's one of those guys who thinks he's better than Jews. He's not. Are Jews better than him? As character goes, most of the time. His daddy it looks like was smart. Even joined MENSA . Junior must have felt inadequate, having a small brain as well as small other body parts. It is funny reading his dad's obit. He sounds like a decent man. Little Jimmy must be in snits knowing his dad worshiped the world's most famous Jew. Here is...