Almanac Current Affairs: Combating non-sensical with the ridiculous

 

I’ve never been able to lie with any conviction my whole life. I would have made a shit poker player.

 

Because of my ineptness in the field of manipulating the truth, I have a pretty good BS radar that has helped me throughout my working career, especially when hiring staff.

 

So it’s with this innate ability I’ve secured over the decades that I look on to this current state of the world with a degree of disbelief and sadness as to what middle aged white men are doing, or more to the point, not doing.

 

Interestingly enough its not just men now. Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and Pauline Hanson are all now vying for first place on the dais of division.

 

It feels like it will take decades to recover from the Trump administration and its lies.

 

We have a close friend in Oregon, Jen who kindly got us out of a major pickle whilst hiking in Montana ten years ago. She is part of the resistance but getting Trump and his minions impeached is a huge task given the Republican foothold in Congress.

 

What is astonishing is the level of dishonesty. Ok, we went through a horrible period of Scott Morrison not holding a hose and not rushing with Covid vaccines, but when you see what’s happened in Minneapolis it beggars belief given the video evidence, that these cold blooded murders are dismissed and swept under the carpet so dispassionately.

 

The complete Epstein Files were ordered to be released in early December 2025 and are still in the hands of the DOJ who are madly applying black texta across them.

 

So I was thinking as to how I can offset this madness with something that always makes me laugh simply because of its non-sensical delivery; Steve Martin’s album from 1976, Let’s Get Small. I hope you enjoy this five minutes of chaos.

 

The album is available in its entirety on youtube but I’ve just chosen a few of my favourites

 

One Way To Leave Your Lover – Dedicated to ICE. ‘I guess I kind of blame myself for her death’

 

 

 

Smoking – ‘Yeah its one of my habits’

 

 

 

Mad at My Mother – ‘Hey I work for a living!!’

 

 

 

Plumbers Joke – ‘I was told there is a convention of plumbers in San Francisco…’

 

 

 

Closing –  ‘I studied with the Maharishi for 15 long, long boring years. I didn’t really learn that much….’

 

 

 

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