The pipeline for stories, tips, leads, and the rest of it is rarely dry, but most of them never find their way into the content you get to see. Limited “parking spaces,” for one thing, and I have to feel the spark. My creative process is probably not unique or unusual, but if I look at it, read it, and don’t feel it, it sits idle in an open browser tab for a day, maybe days.
Some stories or clips just spark a response; others don’t, but might (or could). Another piece of content might be what it takes to make an interesting connection. It could be supporting or contradictory. Or it could be the right thing at the wrong time, and I’m not that interested in whatever it is at the moment. It has to be interesting, compelling, amusing, and fun now or soon.
And if it feels like work, I won’t enjoy it as much, and neither will you. That doesn’t mean the story, tip, lead, or whatever wasn’t worthy; I just wasn’t feeling it, and I chase a lot of headlines myself that turn out to be blogging dead ends. Interesting, but not enough to spark 600 words or something close.
In contrast, I still need to come up with content every day, and while I probably won’t do this all the time, maybe not even weekly, some of those stories could make for salvageable content in fewer words, so what if I just glommed two or three into one piece of writing?
Keep in mind, the last time I said I ‘don’t get used to this,’ it was the Morning Update. Episode 214 was published this morning.
To paraphrase Winnie the Pooh, you can never tell (with bloggers).
Let’s get to it, then!
Hasan Piker has become a mouthy face of Democrat Socialism, and I can honestly say I’ve never read a word he’s written or heard his voice. Just another tool in the bag, but it turns out, and this is not at all surprising, that he fits the profile.
Rich kid, wealthy parents, privileged upbringing, pretending to be a voice for “the people,” just like Platner. They talk about fighting the oligarchy because they are the oligarchy. Whatever form their socialist revolution takes, it likely won’t touch them financially. They are already in the upper class.
Next: Remember Hannah Dugan? You can find some of our fair and balanced coverage here. The now former Judge was arrested, charged, and convicted of obstruction after attempting to “free” a criminal alien out the secret back door. A guy twice deported with a criminal record, who beats women, mind you. He got caught; she got caught. Trial, verdict, and while she can no longer be a judge or even practice law, if I recall, no jail time. A 5,000.00 fine. Humiliated but not incarcerated.
Message sent? I have not heard of any similar stories, so perhaps that work did what it had to do despite her not spending 3-5 in minimum security or under house arrest. We shall see.
Finally, Keith Richards. “After being asked if The Rolling Stones’ new song, “Ringing Hollow,” is an anti-Trump track, Richards told The Sunday Times that the lyrics are about having “a nostalgic love affair with America, and [it being] a bit of a disappointment at the moment.”
Keith has been living in Connecticut for the past forty years, but I have to think he hasn’t missed any news from his homeland. The UK is a shitshow. Six different Prime Ministers in the past Decade. Crime, rape gangs, stabbings, and the police are a joke. And most of what went wrong there is what Mr. Trump is trying to prevent here.
Keith is welcome to repatriate himself, just don’t forget that painting you keep in your attic. The one that looks like a young Keith Richards but still miraculously keeps the corpse-like one, who is disappointed with America, alive.
