Semi-topics

Here in the semi-tropics: Hot and humid, with a brush of cold drifting in once in awhile. (That’s what teacher said so it must be right…this is labeled “satire”. Now where are those flannel lined jeans?) Ugly Christmas T-shirt contests, not sweaters. Going to the beach almost year round. 

Semi-sweet.

Ignoring the fact that the ocean once covered all the way to Dallas and central Texas – and it eventually will do that again.

That’ll be exciting – J.R. Ewing and the ranch hands surfing between cattle roundups and business take-overs. (Updated TV scripts bound to being in progress even as this is written…)

“Dang, Sugar. Hope you’ve got a bikini under that outfit. They say the surf by Waxaahachie is up to 6 feet! Cowabunga. Corral those cows and let’s go surfing’ now!” (J.R. Ewing/ Larry Hagman dancing at the Rosewood Crescent Club /USPD/commons.wikimedia.org)

Semi trucking:

Seems the be the mode of moving on now in the world:  rolling forward but only semi-speedily getting back to normal. One step forward and two back.

Overheard in the airport TSA line: “More flights cancelled? My kingdom for a dependable horseless carriage!”

People pretty restless in these first New Year’s weak of discontent. 

Semiconscious:

So many only vaguely aware of what was mulled over in the past – until most went on passed.

Remember when the Sierra Club warned unlimited immigration would be disastrous? Too many people – an uncontrolled population – would overrun and destroy habitats, deplete natural resources, and possibly destroy life on Earth as we know it. They couldn’t have been oddly right then, could they? (Center for Immigration Studies articles here and here)

Hope the National Parks’ crisis conditions from being mobbed for the past two years isn’t the canary in the mine….

“Dear Smokey, We hope you and your forest and family are enjoying some peace and quiet with the ban on visitors. We hope someday to learn to tread lightly and leave no trace and be allowed to return. The Meta-verse just isn’t the same as being in the real outdoors. Please tell the wolves to only hunt sick prey and stay inside the park leaving the ranchers no excuse to hunt them to extinction. As John Muir said, ‘When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe’.” (1989 painting. National Agr. Library /USPD/Commns.wikimedia.org)

People with a memory longer than a nano second, those semi-aware, or those having some interest in researching history’s social concepts – will remember all the “Oh, how could you bring children into this terrible world?” hand -wringing over-population discussions on college campuses, by celebrities, and from the power hungry of the 1960’s – 70’s (and even before).

Einstein was right: energy is never destroyed: it is rudderless rubber and just bounces off me and right back to you…

But all that’s semi-boring, so let’s saddle up and gallop fearlessly on into the sunset with smiles on our faces

• You know it rained fish here again recently. Guess the fish misunderstood that the ocean wasn’t quite ready to surge inland yet? Proof early adopters are sometimes fish out of water. (Story/pictures/video here.)
• But did you catch the Kroger’s Annual TaxAct Rodeo Bowl between LSU and K-State this year? No football, but much a-foot as teams put on their hats and bellied up to the barrels, lassoes, and calves (no choking or hog tying). Give yourself a grin and watch the competition on video here. (Starts at 1:40 on the video time counter)

And now a long pass to the goal line. (Image screenshot. ABC13)

And with all that, semi-ready to run with an always original WP herd of non-lemmings in the new year, 

Hasta later, compadres

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge.