Saturday

   Good morning. It is 58 degrees and overcast here in Upstate NY. It's a little raw out there with windiness and the potential of rain in the air. The birds outside my window are chirping and sound pretty content, I'm happy to report. I was thinking about this game we all used to play when we were children. It's called 'Operation', remember that one. You would use tweezers to carefully remove internal "body parts" from the illustrated hapless figure. If your tweezers hit the edge of the body part cavity the light bulb would go off and you'd lose your turn, or something like that. Nice, you know, works on meticulous hand to eye coordination and would be a real challenge for some.
   Which leads me to Ted Cruz for no particular reason. What is the deal with this guy? Is he the creepiest thing to slither out of Texas yet? I'm thinking yea. I just don't get it, he has a remarkable education and he's very articulate, but how can one add all that up and arrive at Ted Cruz? What screw in that guy's mind provokes such misery, boorishness, arrogance, greed, and contempt for humanity. Has he figured out how to make the big paycheck by putting on the robe of Tea Party king. It could be that really. Sometimes when an individual gets outstanding praise from a group of people then the praise goes directly to one's head so to speak. He is high on his popularity within his own little Tea Party micro world. The end result unfortunately is garbage which Ted is oblivious to.