Get ready for the Alien drop:

OMG! Twitter has officially gone to hell. TikTok videos are now appearing on it. It looks just like Facebook now. Only angrier. Might be time to hang up my keyboard over there.

I'm sure you've heard the story...

What will the "Alien Files" reveal ? Vulcans? Klingons??? Personally I'm hoping for Betazoids. The reality is that's it's probably just another document dump with nothing of importance, no smoking gun, heavily redacted, and designed to use up a news cycle, as another distraction.

This is a tough one. After about 12 beers, I lose count.

Space aliens, huh?

All these distractions being served up that don't have any substance. Where's the beef, Donnie?

apnews.com/article/iran... No sh!t, Sherlock. Although it looks more like a mass invasion from here.

apnews.com/live/supreme... The SCOTUS says no, so now Trump demands that the world "tithe" him. He's really digging into his fan club identifying him as "sent by God".

apnews.com/article/eric... This one saddens me. I don't know him as McSteamy, But as Captain Tom Chandler in "The Last Ship" - a character I would follow into hell. My personal Condolences to his family on his death from ALS, which also took out my brother-in-law. RIP

I'm sure it will include stories about his meetings with Captain Kirk, Han Solo, and E.T.

Do you remember the very first "Black Mirror" episode where the prime minister of UK had to have sex with a pig on Live TV for all the world to see? We've arrived. I think maybe we all died of COVID, and we can't decide on a script for going forward in the afterlife.

Today's Contemplation:

Welcome to Friday, and life in modern times. Not sure whether to focus on Epstein, Economics, UFOs, or the decline of Western Civilization into idiocy. Let me grab a coffee, and we'll start our journey into the abyss...

I wonder what the answer would be if you asked Americans if they drink alcohol constantly.

A binary mind is a poor choice to navigate a complex system.

Happy Birthday to Yoko Ono - 93 today.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeBv... I throw this up every once in awhile. It 's a good attitude to approach the world with.

Says the guy trying to start multiple wars.

He might. I don't.

Such appropriate symbolism...

So I posted this on New Years Day of this year. Doesn't seem as crazy now, does it?

I believe that they used to call them "plantations".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-BN... Final in the Ad Council messages from 2002. This one swings both ways.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKeV... Another from the Ad Council series from 2002. Yes, religion is out in the open, but what if your religion, or your form of Christianity, is not what the government supports?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCcV... Another in the Ad Council series from 2002. Seeming like it's moving in this direction...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=suJc... I'm gonna run a series of commercials from the Ad Council from 2002. Seems we've made quite a bit of progress in the wrong direction.

newecclesiastes.substack.com/p/where-is-god People are always asking why God isn't doing his job. Perhaps he is, and we aren't...

In the crush of religious observances at this time of year, I neglected to make note of this one, for my siblings of the Islamic tradition. Ramadan Mubarak!

apnews.com/article/brit... Well, it seems the UK knows how to prosecute powerful criminals. Does anyone here?

Today's Contemplation:

Good morning all and welcome back to our continuous three ring circus and asylum. I'm gonna grab a coffee, peruse the headlines, and share some of the craziness with you all.

I posted this back on New Years Day this year, and suddenly, it looks a whole lot more plausible... and we're only 6 weeks in...