A continuation in my attempt to channel Mark Twain into today’s world…

If self-promotion was an Olympic sport, Mr. Trump would sweep Gold, Silver and Bronze.

I hear capitalism makes for the best healthcare system, I suppose it is true if you have money or are famous, or a good job. Maybe the rest of us will just try to avoid the Trump virus.

Seems like a whole lot of people are discovering during the lock down what it’s like to be retired without an income and too little savings, might just be a much-needed wake-up call about retirement savings when we get back to work.

When we are done with lock-down, don’t say you don’t know, when I ask you where should we go to dinner.

I cannot understand why anyone would think of a pandemic as a partisan opportunity, the virus doesn’t know about politics, but it has an uncanny knack for highlighting politic divides.

We wanted a strong federal response to the pandemic, until we get one.

How is it that the wealthiest country in the world has the longest food lines ever?  Guess wealth means something different these days.

Nothing like homeschooling to bring about an appreciation for teachers that occupy our children for 6 or 7 blessed hours each day.

Now that sports are sidelined, maybe poetry and art will take their rightful place in the attention of mankind.   ESPN, was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, maybe becomes the Poetry and Arts Programming Network (PAPN).

The GOP leader I admired most in my time, said in his second inaugural address for Americans to “bind up the nation’s wounds” “with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.”  While our current leader seems inclined toward malice toward everyone, charity to only those that praise him before God as right and mighty.  Then he still says he gets worse press than a president that had half-a-country pissed at him in Civil War.

In my day, we thought if women got the vote, they’d force all us men to be nicer and look after the world better.  We were wrong, they have the vote, and we are no nicer than before.

If women agreed, then we’d have change.

I think you can be nice to half the people half the time and get half way there with half of them.

Mark Twain (imagined)