the gloomy boomer The Gloomy Boomer

It’s been tough trying to justify my girlfriend Joan’s Trumpiness. She honestly feels Donald Trump is a wonderful human being. She would like me to see him as a good person, too. I can’t. All I can do is put her allegiance to the Orange Dude, specifically her insistence on his “decency”, into some kind of perspective. My impression of the man: he’s Bad. Not bad like bad is good. Not the Hip definition of BAD. I’m talking the straight-up…

Attack Of The Killer Chihuahuas

April 22, 2024 the gloomer Comments 3 comments

I’m having a disturbing dream… Packs of Chihuahuas roam the streets. I’m watching them attack old people. Babies in strollers. Other larger dogs. Anything that offers a meal. kids escape the depraved dogs by crowding onto a yellow bus—trapping one hapless chihuahua in the folding door. This Old Man had been waiting in line to board the bus when the kids crowded in front of him. Now he’s screaming, “open the door! For God’s sake, let me in!” The driver…

Maybe The Golden Rule Is For The Birds

April 18, 2024 the gloomer Comments 2 comments

Life…have you figured it out yet? I haven’t. Nobody else has, either. In fact, the meaning of life is beyond a human being’s capacity to figure-out. A way bigger brain than mine came to this conclusion over two hundred years ago. Immanuel Kant. A German Philosopher. A truly stellar Egg Head. He showed us how the “existence” of God is unprovable. While at the same time he allowed that the “non-existence” of God is also unprovable. Leave it to a…