Better late than never, right?
Happy New Year…but I have questions:
● Do I really need that Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush I got for Christmas?
● What exactly is an astrobiologist? Is it a modern-day version of an extraterrestrial hunter? Just asking?
● Isn’t being demisexual just someone who doesn’t put-out on a first date? Thinking it is?
● Why don’t TV political pundits have stat lines like athletes do? Most are never right, batting way below the Mendoza Line of Mediocrity.
● On what day this year do you think India surpasses China in population? I say April 1st, which seems appropriate.
● Will the Los Angeles Lakers make the playoffs this year? I remain a fading-away hopeful optimist.
● If the universe has an eternal clock, what time do you think it is? I say it’s now.
● Okay, so how exactly does the exception prove the rule again? I’ll wait…
● Which is worse to you: pious priests, profiteering prophets or populist politicians? Pick’em.
● Just wondering, but with all the pubic hair grooming these days, are crabs still a thing? Anyone?
● When exactly did cyberspace become the metaverse?
● The traveler in me wants to know: Does sightseeing the day after turn into a sightsaw?
● While we’re on it, what does neurodiverse mean? Isn’t that just personal experiences?
● Do Americans still feel shame? I dunno? Maybe their god’s just not keeping score anymore?
● Is doubt just the opposite of hope?
● Just asking, but don’t the Republicans have the majority in the House of Representatives? Watching the 118th Congress Speaker vote live three times, I’m not so sure?
● What’s the difference between a digital nomad and a traveler?
● Trick question: Who grows more opioids, the Taliban in Afghanistan or Johnson & Johnson in Tasmania?
● Why are most of the people who are closest to me so far away?
● What’s a bigger problem in America, wage theft or property theft?
● Which is worse: being a disappointed true believer or a willfully ignorant fool?
● Don’t you wish that Dorothy Parker, George Carlin, Ann Richards, Oscar Wilde, Gore Vidal, Lord Byron, Ambrose Bierce, and Jesus had Twitter accounts?
● Why does it take 13 steps to obtain life-ending medications in California? Okay, just me…
● Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t TikTok to the young what QVC is to the old? Same, same.
● I wondered over the holidays if this rough patch I’m in isn’t just my life now?
● Is podcasting just a lazy man’s verbal blogging?
● Silly question I remember asking my priest once: If there is a god, can they create a stone they can’t lift? (I was asked to go outside!)
● Do Constitutional originalists actually think that women shouldn’t vote, Blacks are only 3/5th a person, and that we should all carry single-load muskets?
● On what day do you think Earth’s Overshoot Day will take place this year? (The day when humanity exhausts nature’s annual budget.) I am guessing the 20th of July this year. Welcome to the land of dysfunction.
● How is it possible to suffer from compassion fatigue? You either care, or you don’t!
● Doesn’t having a low consumer adoption rate just mean that your sales suck? Think it does.
● Is Elon Musk acting more like Beavis and Butt-Head or Dumb and Dumber lately to you?
● Isn’t effective altruism just greenwashing greed at best and money laundering at worst?
● Which do you least prefer: reboots, reruns, revivals, prequels or sequels? I’ll say sequels.
● What do we need more of these days: cognitive dissonance, commonsense, or a sense of humor?
● My pronouns are: He/Him/His, Hey You, Dad, Honey, Buddy, and Shithead. What are yours?
● If everything is a human construct, does anything really matter? Ouch.
● Does asking too many questions make you a cynic, skeptic, contrarian, obnoxious, slow or just curious? I’m leaning into curiosity.
● Do you think we have entered the era of oblivious obviousness? Whose famous last words might echo: How could we not have seen that coming?
● What are things you don’t say out loud? You go first…
Thanks for the privilege of your time, it is the most precious thing we have, and I appreciate it. Be well.
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