8:01 PM Friday

 I just listened to James Delingpole on the Coffee and a Mike podcast.  JD is a conspiracy theorist to the nth degree, as the saying goes, and his questioning of everything and seeing a conspiracy behind everything can be too much.  And so I kind of shied away from him after being a solid follower for a while.  So, listening to the podcast was like being reacquainted with an old acquaintance.  Some of his conspiracies sound agreeable, and he is a Christian.  The latter is my way of distancing myself from following the travails of politics and it’s mostly puerile inaneness.  It is nice to think that things like climate change and dinosaurs are stories told by the powers that be to manipulate us, just like the political issues that come and go.