Time Is Getting A Wee Bit Short

I’ve noticed a few things of late…..

I’m an observer of people, by and large. I’m the guy who sits and talks with the bartender, or simply sits back and appears to be reading some article on my phone while sipping my Rum & Diet.

I peruse dozens of news sources daily, filtering all with a rather jaundiced eye, as most are horribly biased and many are intentionally dishonest.

But through all of this I’ve noted a shift — one that I’ve seen before, but this time it’s more-pervasive, more arrogant, and just generally worse.

It’s the destruction of civil order, to be blunt, and the haughty arrogance that one ought to be cheering on what is happening around us. The so-called recovery. The roaring stock market. The whipping out of the plastic card instead of the Jackson for even the most-mundane, and many of those cards are not even credit or debit cards — they’re welfare cards.

People getting mugged in places where it formerly never would have occurred. Crimes of opportunity, they say. No… crimes of lack of civility.

The knock-out game you’ve probably heard of. What you probably haven’t heard, unless you pay attention, is that it’s not just a band of black thugs rolling someone for grins that way — it’s also a white guy rolling a woman walking to her car in a place where she feels quite safe – just because he can, not because he needs to or even because he has lewd behavior on his mind. The only reason he targets her is that he figures she’s unarmed, coming out of a bar where she can’t legally carry her gun and have a drink.

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