𝐁𝐔𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐕𝐎𝐃𝐊𝐀 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑, 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒

                                        

As a self-proclaimed, backsliding agnostic, it's weird to be caught betwixt and between two religious holidays, the Jewish Passover and the pseudo-Christian Easter. 

While celebrating neither, I'm fully aware of Yahweh's "Angel of Death" passing over Israelite households with lamb's blood on their thresholds, while slaughtering every damn firstborn in Egypt, including Pharoah's.

Now, after all these years, wikipedia is telling me that Roman Emperor Constantine is not responsible for linking Easter with the worship of the sex goddess Ashtoreth, just with combining Christmas and Saturnalia.  OK, I'm one for two.

Anyway, speaking of conundrums, just when I thought we'd never have a vice president dumber than Spiro Agnew or Dan Quayle, J.D. Vance jumps out from behind Elon Musk to refer to our Chinese friends as "peasants."  The Chinese responded by calling Vance "impolite," roughly the Chinese equivalent to "motherf****r. 

A friend suggested I attend a local podcast interview of County Judge Eddie Trevino, thinking I would ask "pertinent" questions.  I passed, instead traveling to Holiday Liquor to buy a 1.75 liter bottle of Barton Naturals Vodka for $8.99.  Thank you, President Trump, for taking some time from your tariff obsession to hold inflation in check.