Word Prisms

CBC radio news recently featured a story about demonstrators congregating at the state legislature in Lansing, Michigan to protest stay-at-home orders issued by Governor, Gretchen Whitmer . A comment made by one of the protesters confused me for a couple of reasons. First that he would say it. Second that CBC broadcast it. Mike's on the far right.  Mike Detmer, a Republican congressional candidate and one of the participants at the protest stated that the government needed a common-sense approach to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. He elaborated by saying that the citizens can’t just sit back and allow their freedoms to be stripped away. “Once you do that, you don't get them back.” What did he mean by common sense? Was his approach common and did it make sense? According to the Merriam Dictionary, common sense can be defined as “sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts.” Could the simple perception of Mr. Deitmer’s and other p

Yesterday, my wife was lying on the bed looking at her phone and I asked her what she was doing to which she replied, You don’t always have to know what I’m doing. Fair enough. I don’t and what’s more to the point, I don’t really care. When I’m bored, I like to bug her and she knows I like to bug her and so, in her own polite way she’s telling me to fuck off. I can imagine this is happening to a lot of people these days. That’s why it would have been better if the COVID 19 crisis had come along when we had kids. At least they would have been a distraction. Now, we’ve just got each other. Not that my wife doesn’t have stuff to tell me when she’s looking at her phone. She follows Twitter and Facebook and Instagram a lot closer than I do so she reads about stuff like Tyler Shandro freaking out at his doctor neighbour long before I’d see it in the news. Then, she learned that Shandro was using AHS to get the personal cell phone numbers of doctors. Then, he phoned them with his