Friday Ennui

Good afternoon, Stroock's Books people. 

What do you feel like? Gaza war updates? The latest political machinations in Israel? Thoughts on Joe and/or President Trump? The Star Wars Acolyte trailer? Yeah it sucks and all the warning sighns are there. So what? 

Via Vox Day, Stroock's Books will adopt the new 'Same Gender Loving' phraseology from GLAAD right away. Usage example, Yassir Arafat was a Same Gender Loving person who died of AIDS. 

So a band of illegal migrants overpowered the Texas National Guard and violated American territory. You know, we just spent five minutes and $84.50 to renew our vehicle registration because that's what upstanding, respectable folk do. You gotta have the right documents. Yet the Regime despises us and welcomes these illegal border crossers. 

Candace Owens is out at The Daily Wire. We always found her cute and feisty. Dare we say adorable. We don't care.

Ben Shapiro is actually under fire for arguing that the social security age should be raised. Shapiro says people should find meaning in work. Shapiro is an intense creative, a freak who sleeps four or five hours a night, and highly successful. We know what Shapiro means when he said one should find meaning in work. We're a fellow (much less) successful creative type and plan to keep creating till we die. We admit there may not be much meaning in being a great tire salesman. If one's a bricklayer, one may want to stop working at 65. 

90's Beat*: Raising the retirement age is a very 90s GOP idea, and necessary. Reminder, we came from the nice, respectable fiscal reform minded Paul Ryan wing of the GOP. Nobody wanted to hear what we had to say about the nation's finances. Now it's too late. Entitlements will be reformed, brutally so, once America defaults on the debt. Ballance the budget on the backs of the Boomer. For the record, we'd cut hundreds of billions from the defense budget too. America doesn't win wars anymore. Don't fight 'em.

What Will's Watching:  Oh, House of the Dragon, why did we wait so long to watch you? We're hooked and we haven't even finished the first episode. Heck, we didn't even start Game of Thrones till 2015, when we were laid up after our cardiac catheterization. We're weird like that. We're unsettled, slightly, to watch something in the GoT universe and see people we like. Character, thy name is House of the Dragon. 

Tomorrow is Purim, which is like the Jewish Halloween. For Purim we'll be going as a middle-aged father of three daughters. Do click that link. Once Mrs. Stroock made a Hamantaschen costume for Middle Daughter. Our Rabbi usually wears a giant hot dog outfit. Once more with feeling: they tried to kill us. The failed. Let's eat. Actually, Purim can turn into a drinking game, too, 'Hammon!' take a drink. That dang hippie cantor of ours is going to bring his guitar again, isn't he?

*New feature we'll be going with for a while.