It's Alive!!

Something has ripped the Time Space Continuum! Lightning and thunder! Earthquakes and tsunamis!    Dogs howling and children screaming! What unearthly entity emerges from the ether? Why, it's The Daily Shmaa! Yes, it's the return of the award-winning blog that captivated and often perplexed readers for a portion of 2008-9. It disappeared under a shroud of mystery, leaving followers with a cruel choice of reading The Atlantic, New York Times, or sputniknews.com.

And why has this gloried remnant from a golden age of blogdom been resurrected today? Could it be that a pleading call has been issued across the land, a blasting note from the horn of Roland, a devotional prayer for the return of Arthur, a holographic entreaty to Obi-Wan Kenobe?

Well, maybe.

Call it boredom, call it a need to figure out what's happening in our wonderful country, call it a cab. I've decided to give it another whirl. So please forgive this and probably the next few entries as I attempt to shake the rust off of the old bones. I will strive to return this enterprise to the ascendent standards it never enjoyed.

Anyway, I heard about an election that took place last month. Sounds like it was crazy! The winner lost the popular vote by 2 percentages, 2.7 million votes. The winner got his electoral college edge in three states where his cumulative edge was less than 80,000 votes. Wowzer.

And now there's some fuss about how the winner is unfit for office, a demagogic reprobate, whose election received subterfuge from Russia, and is set to make appointments and policies that will please The Putin Bear.  This can't be right, right?

Back in the day, the Electoral College was created to prevent a demagogue from being popularly elected. Educated and sophisticated patriots - Electors - would cast their mandated state votes, thus bypassing a direct popular vote.  They would be the fire wall to prevent disaster. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

However, irony loves a good rich laugh. Here's a comment I read somewhere that nails it:

"A very American outcome. The institution designed to prevent the installation of an unqualified candidate despite the popular vote is instead going to overturn the popular vote to institute the unqualified candidate."

So. If you have an interest in persuading Electors to hold off on their votes to the winner until they've been briefed by Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, call his office:

1. CALL DIRECTOR JAMES CLAPPER: (703) 733-8600
2. TELL HIM TO BRIEF THE ELECTORS

You can click the following link for more information:

https://electoralcollegepetition.com/brief-the-electors/#gs.7zXHkZs

Whether or not you call to action, it's time to enjoy something really stupid. The set-up: Pee Wee Football players against Pro Team Mascots. The Pee Wees are probably about 10 years old. The Mascots are fully grown adults, and cloaked in foam and plastic. There's a lot of awful in this video, but it really is funny, in a way that is difficult to admit to.

Enjoy?

That's it for now. Please let me know what you think of The Shmaa's return, and how to improve it (no, not that!!).