A tweet-sized rant

The latest bad news to break from the US border (that would be the one about the racist and misogynistic  Facebook group set up by past and current border patron agents in case another story just as bad breaks in the meantime) reminds me of a quote attributed to poet Maya Angelou:

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

I believe. Although it's not the first time.

Two kinds of people

El Cabrero is not a big monitor of right wing media, but I've been enjoying the flack Rush Limbaugh has been getting over his over the top comments last week. Those remarks, of course, weren't the first such to emerge from the Whackadoodle oracle. Here are some others.

There's been a lot of talk on the web about the right wing war on women. Whether such war talk is right on target or not--and it doesn't seem all that far off the mark to me--it does seem to be the case that some people on that end of the political spectrum seem to have an undue amount of anxiety over the thought that people who have uteri are inadequately supervised.

I manage to get through most days without worrying about things like that.

It reminds me of conversations I used to have with certain friends in which we concluded

1. that there are two kinds of people in the world, to wit, those who have enough real problems and those who do not;

2. that the latter group is the cause of many of the problems in the world.