Tag: trump

Don’t let all the Trump enablers off the hook in the future; they are complicit

Chris Johnson | Posted on September 8, 2025 |

I know plenty of Trump supporters. I live in a deep red county and a mostly red neighborhood. I have family members, co-workers, neighbors, old friends, new friends and others who are Trumpers. They may get pretty darn sick of me not being one and not picking one of the two parties — the Democrats or what used to be Republicans — but I don’t hold their views against them. They have a right to their wrong opinions. They believe his diatribes. When he says inflation is down, they believe it. When he says gas is less than $2, they […]

If Cracker Barrel hurts your feelings, you might be an EG-NO-RA-MOOSE

Chris Johnson | Posted on August 22, 2025 |

I rarely go to a restaurant for lunch. I like having somebody cook and bring me food, but restaurants often have other people in them, and they often ask for my money when I’m done eating — some before I even start eating. The whole experience is rather off-putting. Yet, my wife suggested today that I try something called “leaving the house” and taking her to lunch. I told her there was some of that lunch stuff right here — vienna sausages, a third of a loaf of bread and some kinds of weeds in a fridge drawer. “You mean […]

Saved by the smell

Chris Johnson | Posted on April 10, 2025 |

So far, the year 2025 has been about as enjoyable as a soggy Vegemite-and-onion sandwich. It stinks, has stunk, and there’s more stinkiness in the forecast. Not that I’ve inhaled all the stinkiness that 2025 has had to offer … so far. I can’t inhale it all because my sinuses are clogged with about half of Georgia’s record-setting pollen. Spring never bothered me before, but this year it’s making up for giving me a half-century pass on allergies. Apparently, Trump’s not the only one on a vengeance tour — so is Mother Nature. I know that I need to stop […]

Facebook doesn’t know satire from lies, and your crazy uncle is confused

Chris Johnson | Posted on August 16, 2024 |

You may have noticed there’s an awful lot of fake stuff floating around on social media lately, especially on Facebook. If you haven’t noticed it, you might be one of the millions of gullible folks who believe anything. Even Donald Trump, that guardian of all that is true and holy, recently shared a post on his Truth Social account claiming that his opponent (whom he hilariously calls names like Kamabla) had a rally at an airport where “nobody” showed up and that her campaign created an AI image falsely showing thousands of people there. Again, he insisted “nobody” was there. […]

A compromise for the Ten Commandments controversy

Chris Johnson | Posted on July 2, 2024 |

Many folks who still believe in the separation of church and state in America got pretty upset recently when Louisiana’s governor signed legislation requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom. That was followed by Oklahoma’s top education official requiring schools to incorporate the Bible into lessons. I hear Job was quite the calculus wiz, while Jonah has particular insight into marine biology, so that definitely makes some sense. And the Bible says that Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines, so I assume he’ll be fairly prominent in sex education classes in Oklahoma. But just […]

Why I voted in Georgia’s stupid primary

Chris Johnson | Posted on March 12, 2024 |

The process by which we select major parties’ presidential candidates in America is horribly flawed and unfair to most of us who don’t live in Iowa or New Hampshire — places that receive snow in mid-March and therefore should not be eligible. We’ve known since 2023 that Trump and Biden would be nominees in 2024, and about 37 people in the U.S. are pretty excited about it — and at least one, Melania Trump, is downright disgusted about it. In this photo from my office, though, are a few reasons why I took a minute during lunch today to vote […]