There is a running gag on the situation comedy “The Big Bang Theory” where Sheldon Cooper, the lead character and physicist by trade, tells people that question his autistic-nature, “I’m not crazy, my mother had me tested”.
The joke resonates as the show is completely built around the odd behavioral quirks, and extreme intelligence of Sheldon Cooper and his three bright friends, juxtaposed with the next door neighbor “Penny”, who is as run-of-the-mill as the rest of us where intelligence is concerned.
Now I know that I am not crazy, or prone to losing my mind. How do I know this?
No, my mother didn’t have me tested, though I am certain the Nuns at St. Ursula’s would have wanted me put through a battery of tests as a youngster.
I know that I am not insane because I am a Baltimore Ravens fan, and can sit here after a horrendous loss to the Bills and pen this column. As opposed to going nuts, nuts, nuts over the many ways that Coach John Harbaugh mismanages a game, mismanages a clock, and misuses the best talent in the league. Harbaugh drives a Ferrari as if it is a Kia. A better coach would have this level of talent blowing out teams. Including the good ones. Harbaugh has his team playing prevent defense up fifteen with twelve minutes left against the best quarterback in the league. What a freaking idiot.
During the game you might think I’ve lost my marbles. I yell at the television, feign being bodily harmed as I squirm over what I am forced to witness, jump out of the chair and yell at the screen at the top of my lungs, and pace around as if in agony after a particularly brutal series of events. I hold my head as if in real pain.
But hey, it is the next morning, and here I sit having that second cup of coffee, calmly putting thought to word, convinced that the season is over after just one of seventeen games.
If you wandered over to say hello right now, you’d never know that I was seething inside, and wanting to damage home furnishings. Why we could have a conversation about the weather, upcoming plans, the new restaurant in town, anything you’d like, as long as you don’t bring up last night’s game. In which case I’d have to twist myself into a pretzel to prevent from having a mental melt down over the game and the results. You know, by Thursday of this week I’ll be able to even smile about life. For real. I will find happiness in reality again.
I bring this up because it appears to me that the entire world has lost its mind every bit as much as I do over a Ravens game, only the world has gone insane over everything, in all aspects. And the world has gone insane full time.
I read where people in Great Britain are being arrested for their online commentary. Arrested. Placed in jail. For what they write on twitter. For waving a Palestinian flag and recognizing the genocide in Gaza.
I only read on “X”, or Twitter, about a Ukrainian woman stabbed in the neck by some repeat offender, I see the video of the horrendous event online on “X” and refuse to watch it, as I can comprehend the pending horror absent viewing the deed.
What I don’t see is coverage of this horrific murder in the mainstream media.
The mainstream media that refuses to acknowledge the serious problem we have with Black crime in America. Were the skin colors reversed in this event, the story would gain “George Floyd” style coverage. But then again, statistically the events are never reversed. Black-on-White crime is exponentially larger than White-on-Black crime. The numbers are staggering.
I saw a statistic on “X” that if true, is rather shocking. The chart indicated that Black females commit more murders than White men do annually. If that is true we have a severe cultural problem in the Black community.
Every weekend, like clockwork, some thirty people are shot in South Chicago. Five to ten of those shot end up dying. On holiday weekends the numbers rise. This has been going on for years, and years, as the politicians in Chicago turn a blind eye to gang violence in parts of Chicago, and just seem to allow Black-on-Black crime and the drug trade and gang warfare that fuels these deaths.
Our President wants to stop the death toll, and restore order to “Chiraq”, the nickname given to the area where all this crime occurs. He would like to send in the National Guard to quell the weekly disturbances. But politicians, particularly Democrat Politicians, are full throated in their demand he not send in the troops.
Somehow our Democrat Politicians would prefer the murders continue unabated, than to have the Guard come in and attempt to calm the neighborhoods where this horror show goes on weekly. Now isn’t that insane, taking the side of the criminal. Refusing help that could save lives. That is pure insanity.
Our court system is irretrievably broken right now, the entire “No Cash Bail” movement, along with what is now known as “George Soros District Attorneys”, Far Left activists serving in the role of DA in our major Blue cities, have created a revolving door of Justice. Perpetrators of serious crimes see the crimes downgraded to misdemeanors, and walk. Over, and over, and over. Blue cities are even cooking the statistics, downgrading felonies to misdemeanors, and listing non-White perpetrators as White to downplay the actual crime statistics for minorities in our country. You can see examples everywhere online. More crazy, brought to you by the Left in America.
The guy who stabbed the Ukrainian women in the neck had been arrested some 9 times in recent years. A history of violence and mayhem. Yet there he was, sitting on the train. Available to murder a girl who ironically had come to the US to escape the horrors of war in her own country. Now isn’t that insane?
By now it is evident that our entire NIH, and CDC has been “captured” by Big Pharma. They bring NIH scientists and leaders in on patents, pay out big dividends to those who are supposed to be policing the Pharmaceutical companies.
Those in charge, like Fauci, become beholden to the companies they are supposed to oversee.
Leading us all into a “Covid” disaster that I shouldn’t need to describe line item, by line item, as we all lived through it.
President Trump brought in RFK, Jr. to shake things up at the NIH, and CDC, and he is taking steps to remove the Covid offenders, those who have too cozy a relationship with the drug companies, and those who locked us all down exceeding their authority dramatically during the pandemic.
And yet we have fellow citizens who are in full support of the regime he attempts to replace. The criminals who lied over, and over, about, well, about everything. From masking, to how the disease started, to how effective the “vaccine”, to “two weeks to flatten the curve”, I mean they lied about everything. There was no basis in “science” for any of what they put us all through.
And yet some of our fellow Americans support the “scientists”, and hate RFK, Jr. for attempting to clean house. How insane is that?
Everyday Israel ethnically cleanses Gaza. And, get this, they add settlements in the West Bank and kick Palestinians out of their homes weekly. Every day adding territory.
The world sits back and allows it. We here in America are complicit. Out right murder of innocents, by an allied nation.
The Palestinians have no standing army, this is a one-sided contest. Israel using American military might to just decimate a population. Sinful. We sit, we do nothing, we watch. In five years time all of Gaza will be consumed and made Israeli territory. Every last Palestinian removed. Now this, this is pure insanity. Evil on display.
We’ve just come through a period of time here in the America of the twenty-first century where half our population can’t define “what a woman is”. Who refuses to acknowledge that there are two genders.
And as insane as that sounds, the sane half the country just went along with the nonsense, they didn’t object the way that was required to right our society. And our young girls paid a price. With gender males claiming female status in their locker rooms, and on the playing fields and courts. We sat and just watched the madness. We allowed our girls to stand on podiums subjugated to the mentally unwell, we forced them to undress in front of mental patients, we forced them to witness theses mental patients full frontal nudity and male genitalia.
We, the sane, did nothing. We failed our youth tremendously. We allowed the insane to run the asylum. We sat and watched. Our failures scarred a generation of youth. Who knows what price those girls will have to pay through life.
As I type this there is a clear contagion in Los Angeles. It appears from afar that every celebrity family has a transgender child. Megan Fox has three children, all of them are transgendered. Excuse me, what are the odds of that?
Has the NIH, or CDC, or any agency sent a crew to LA to see what is causing the outbreak of transgenderism that far exceeds the national average?
If this was some “cancer cluster” near an old chromium plant, a medical team and team of investigative scientists would be out doing testing. Soil, water, air.
Something is wrong in Los Angeles, children are deciding to cut off their privates, take life altering medications, attempt to change their genders both chemically and physically.
Excuse me. This isn’t normal. This isn’t even a “new normal”. This is insanity. Writ large. Where are the sensible minds, where is the one who sees the emperor has no clothes and cries out, “he has nothing on”, or in this case “Stop the madness”?
Here in reality, here in the real world, we are well aware that we have “no-go” zones in our major cities, particularly those cities in Blue states. We are all also well aware that almost all of these no go zones are all Black in residents.
Half the country blames the “guns”, but there are probably more guns in Appalachia, a very poor, White area of our nation, than there are anywhere else in America, and those hillbillies aren’t shooting each other thirty a weekend.
No they are not.
The crime problem, and shootings are cultural. Part and parcel, and endemic to the Black community. Who somehow embraced the “Gangster” part of “Ganster rap”, took it all seriously, and who has made murder and mayhem a serious problem in all our major cities where Black residents make up a high proportion of the population.
Oh, but SHHH, can’t say that, not out loud. Why, you are a God Damned racist.
But White America is finally having “Black fatigue”, we are all tired of “not noticing”.
If the problem was guns then Appalachia would be a shooting gallery every weekend in West Virginia, but the problem isn’t the guns, it is cultural.
Hey, I lived in Baltimore, lived there 50 years, knew every part of that city from working jobs there that required me to travel the width and breadth of the city. I knew those streets from “The Wire”. I drove fast to get through them, and ran a stop sign or two to breeze through as fast as possible if I found myself having to traverse town through those mean streets. Trust me, in Baltimore there are absolutely “no-go” zones for White America. You get a flat tire in parts of West Baltimore, you drive the rim, your life depends on it.
But we can’t say this. We can’t talk about it. We can’t do a damn thing about it.
We have to be quiet. We White people, we live with the “original sin” of slavery, it is all our fault. Forget 60 plus years of LBJ’s “Great Society”, forget all the money and effort to lift everyone out of poverty. Forget the trillions spent, the creation of entire cabinet level departments meant to “assist”.
So the disaster of daily life in our inner cities continues unabated. Black lives lost, and lost, and lost. The educational system nonexistent in these “no-go” zones. Entire classrooms graduated who can’t function at grade level, can’t pass grade level testing. In that native Baltimore of mine entire schools in the inner city had a 0.0 number for those testing at grade level. As in “none”, no one.
At some twenty thousand a student plus, we are spending a quarter million per student over twelve years to graduate a functional idiot. Right now. Today. As I type this. The schools exist, in session, right now. We are all flushing a quarter million per kid down the drain to receive as the finished product a functionally illiterate adult at 18 years of age. And we keep doing this over, and over, and over. We are all insane.
So while I will plead to temporary insanity for those hours when a Ravens game is in session. But you people out there, man, to live with all of this as “normal” in our society, you’ve all gone totally nuts.
Overall, I am mentally well adjusted. I received a full quotient of common sense, and perhaps my greatest quality is the ability to be pragmatic. I always see things as they are, not as I wish them to be, or not as I am told.
My bullshit meter works fine. I may be 18 credits shy of a college degree, but I read voraciously, observe constantly, and I’ve been told by more than one individual that I am an autodidact.
I absorb information, process information, and attempt to leave my emotions in check during the evaluation process. Emotion clouds the mind, and provides less than optimal outcomes.
But you all worry me. My insanity is temporary, yours appears complete.
Because from where I sit, everyone appears to be completely fine living with all of this insanity that I have described, allowing others to implement insane and impractical ideas and policies that are destroying our quality of life. That are destroying our nation. That are tearing apart our country.
How bad are things? New York is about to elect a real, dyed-in-the-wool socialist to office. Who is going to tax the very rich even more than the ridiculous amounts they are expected to pay now in New York. As if they’ll just sign checks over, and not move to Florida where they’ll save a bundle every year on taxes. Hundreds of thousands of dollars saved. You think they made all that money just agreeing to pay more? That thinking is completely mad.
Our politicians are insane, our mainstream media promotes insanity, we sit and allow insane policies to be promulgated and promoted.
I may be out of my mind for three hours a week during football season, but our nation has gone insane full-time. And not just our nation, the world.
And I have hope for myself. I have come to the realization that John Harbaugh is a fucking idiot, and to root for his team is a losing proposition, so I now steel myself for the worst. And I get the worst too, did you witness the Ravens-Bills game? Did you? Did you?
Sorry, got carried away there. I’ll be fine by Thursday, I assure you. By then the good news of hitting a five way bet, and a four way bet over the weekend will set in, and overshadow the Ravens loss.
As a kid I went to Baltimore Colts games at the old and now defunct and gone Memorial Stadium, which was known as “The World’s largest outdoor insane asylum”.
I still allow pro football to make me nuts, but you’ve all made it so that now I live in the “World’s largest outdoor insane asylum”. We call it America.
And for those of us who are pragmatic, who still have some of our wits about us, we better join hands, and join forces, and help to restore order.
Because the next stop on this “crazy train” is chaos and disaster. And we don’t have sixteen games left to right the ship.
The time for restoring sanity is now.
Michael, run for office. Get on a stump and talk about what needs fixing. Florida is sane enough to elect you.