Comedian David Brenner is dead. He was 78 and we haven’t heard much about him lately, although he was still performing right up to the end. I remember him from back when he was doing fairly regular appearances on the Carson Show. He made me laugh. A lot. Thanks, David Brenner.
As to all of those teaser headlines saying that Fred Phelps’ is ‘near death,’ just stop it; stop getting my hopes up. Let me know when the nasty old fucker is gone, that’s all.
The news everybody seems to want to talk about is the missing Malaysian airliner, which I guess is fair enough, it’s human nature. The less we know about a subject, and the less we can actually do about a subject, the more we want to talk about it. We can’t do a damned thing about the weather, or the lame endings TV writers give to our favorite series, so we talk about them excessively. There is very little the average guy can do about politics, when everybody else seems to be pulling in a different direction, so we talk a lot about that, too.
Anyway, ‘authorities,’ whoever the hell they are, now think it was a hijacking, but it’s a pretty strange form of hijacking, as no ransom has been demanded, no group has claimed credit. I’d like to think it was a hijacking, which would allow for some possibility that those people are still alive.
And, as long as we don’t know, everybody should keep looking.
I suspect, however, that we will no more find this plane and its survivors than Amelia Earhart’s plane and its survivors. First, it might have been a hijacking AND a crash. That has happened before. Then again, if the hijackers landed in some country they didn’t plan on landing in, they might all be lost forever inside of a weird Burmese prison somewhere. If the plane crash landed in the mountains, they might be trying to hike out, losing people one by one to tigers, cobras, and sudden, unexpected waterfalls. Or, they may be inside China, or Tadjikistan (I just use those for examples – I am not making any comment about their political systems), and to keep the hijacking covered up, they can’t release the passengers.
Or, they were abducted by aliens
But, then, why hijack in the 1st place? Maybe they were just after a couple of guys?
I don’t know. Just speculating.
In Crimea, they’ve had their referendum and voted to align with Russia. It sets a bit of a bad precedent, but I don’t see anything anybody can do about it at this point except to bitch and moan about how unfair it is, which many Ukrainians and plenty of anti-Russian people around the world will continue to do for a long time.
The Palestinians are still lamenting what they lost in ’48, the Scottish are still lamenting what they lost in 1707, American Indians would like reparations for what they lost in 1492, and if there were any Neanderthals left alive, they’d be suing the rest of the human race, and they’d have a case.
But, borders change. Time moves on. It’s not the end of the world.
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