Groovy holiday weekend to all my OIB friends. It’s been quite the peculiar year locally, nationally, internationally, all the way to the cosmos.
Good grief, Charlie Brown, we start OIB year 18 in 2024. We commenced this thing as a leap of faith originally under the banner of the late Tribune publication Fairfield County Weekly, followed by a quick pivot independently, prior to its closing. Anticipation has its merits.
A number of news and information portals have come and gone since then. We endure, knowing nothing’s forever, because of a niche market focused on government and politics with a splash of cheekiness, including our esteemed comments section. Come on in the lava is just fine.
Trivia question: the first comment section post all those years ago came from? The illuminating barrister and former state senator Rob Russo, posting incognito.
We lost a number of friends the past few weeks. The holiday season sometimes take its toll on mortality.
But the season of miracles strengthens in some fashion. So a mighty salute to what keeps OIB nourished: readers, posters, advertisers, etc.
Without you I’m back on the unemployment line.
It’s good to have you on the firing line Lennie, Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Port’s political family. Remember Santa 🎅 is watching. Pivot. 🤣
While Santa isn’t as corrupted as Port’s Political game, thank God for that and God’s mercy because if they investigated those videos in their entirety, uncorrupted, there would be a litany of defendants lying about family memberships, 🤣 based on the grotesquery of human nature. Y’all know who you are. Right Holier-Than- Thous, 😇🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lsgi3432QI
Try to play nice to Port’s political (non-getting along) family. Try to get along and not cut the baby/Port in half. 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnibXEzMT7A
Can’t depart without the Prophet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul-b1-ar0p0
I hope that Yule be sleeping with the Fishes tonight!
Squid pro quo!
Merry Christmas to you and yours Lenny.
Thank you JB!
Lennie,
On this day after Christmas, held as a holy day for many but a gathering holiday for almost all, I look to the coming weekend as 2023 disappears and opens up to the ‘coming events’ of 2024. Your shop is open for each absurd story foisted on us. I received an email sharing a column on Revolution vs. Civil War and after reading it I cannot find the factual events used as evidence, cited by the writer. Funny to think that, in my opinion.
But when people are angry enough about the way their life has turned out, fully mindful that time is moving on, hoping that someone else can be blamed, I turn to that sage from Bridgeport, who lived daily on newsprint on the comics page, Walt Kelly. Remember his statement: “We have met the enemy and he is us!”
It is not news, merely a gentle reminder of our fallibility. Do something a citizen will do to preserve democracy in the coming year in our community. Vote!! As often as possible! Vote informed!! Talk about and to leaders who can change the community!! Talk up voting with others. Your voice is not heard if your vote is not counted. Time will tell.
John, how do you know there wasn’t factual evidence to be cited by the writer in that email regarding the Revolution vs Civil War? Surely you were not present at the Revolution or the Civil War. So whatever factual events you may use/find regarding those events would have to come in the written form of a writer, No? Where do you draw the line on what you read by writers as being useable factual evidence?
To be fair, emails do tend the need to be more subsidized. At least that’s what my Nigerian Prince cousin told me. 🤣
BTW, No absurd story is foisted on in a democratic state. the store is open because that’s the democratic way. The Philosophical Way. As the Father of Philosophy stated, ~Socrates “All I know is I know nothing”.
However, if you find Walt Kelly’s statement as factual evidence it can be perceived that people’s anger about the way their lives have turned/turned out, their enemy, regardless of who it may be can be factual evidence to be warranted of blame. Though it may not be warranted, sometime the worst enemy tends to be within, perhaps behind you. 🙂
#Gucci toilets. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXoc2ejcUDU