Sunday Musings in Central Standard Time on Less-than-optimal Sleep

 I want to write another blog post--I mean, it's about time--but there's so much going on and almost all of it outside my control. The one situation I seem to have stewardship over is the making of an appointment to repair a root canal, which may be easier than ousting the GOP or its offending parts but still not something you would characterize as "fun." Plus I got some weird virus over the night that's making my body ache and my brain feel like it's floating in an insular, room-temperature bath of incredulity and dread. Although the latter might have to be referred back to the GOP thing. 

I have just one or two observations regarding this. Now, I'm not an "Internet hater" but it occurred to me that without it, recent history might have had, by necessity, gone another way. Maybe a better way.  I love to say that when King George said something stupid or obnoxious, it took six weeks for the news to reach the per-Revolutionary War Colonists. I can't help but think if they had Internet back then it would have gone worse. 

Anyway, maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty certain that without the Internet, without computers and databases, in a world where bookkeeping was done by clerics, it would be very hard indeed to wreak so much havoc on a country in such little time as we have witnessed lately. 

Or maybe in writing this blog post I'm just pandering to a fantasy where a government pseudo-agent is beating on the door of a government office and is suddenly and violently repelled by a well-placed musket ball.