We'll Drink a Cup of Kindness Yet
Father Time, Baby New Year & the Power of Ish
I trust you all had a good holiday surrounded by friends and family and if you weren’t surrounded by friends and family, I assume you drank a lot, which is pretty much the same thing. We had a rather low-key holiday, opening presents and stockings on Christmas morning with our daughter and watching her pretend she still believes in Santa. She’s 19.
My husband and I don’t usually get each other gifts (cutbacks) but I decided to surprise him with a racquetball racquet. Unfortunately he had actually asked for a squash racquet and I was all, but you play racquetball! And he was like, I’ve never played racquetball in my life! My mother-in-law recorded the whole thing because apparently she finds it hilarious that we know absolutely nothing about each other.
In just a few days, Father Time will hand over the universal clock to Baby New Year, a drooling idiot still in diapers who has zero idea how to tell time. This, of course, leads to mass confusion every January and a run on Covid tests and anti-depressants. Becase our fate is in the hands of a baby. A BABY.
Speaking of big babies, I assume you all have heard of NY Congressman-elect and congential liar George Santos. Basically, Santos symbolizes everything that’s wrong with today’s Republican party. Despite referring to himself as the “embodiment of the American dream,” Santos lied about his career, his education, his campaign finance, his criminal history, his favorite color, and his religion. The only thing he didn’t lie about, apparently, is that he’s gay.
He does seem rather conflicted about his faith. He claimed that his Jewish grandparents “fled persecution in Ukraine,” which isn’t actually true, and then tried to clear up his own religious affiliation by saying he’s Catholic and “Jew-ish,” not to be confused with the more conventional non-hyphenated “Jewish.” His ancestors must be so proud-ish.
But as we all know, Santos isn’t even close to the worst Republicans have to offer. In fact, he’s not such a bad guy in comparison to the behavior of Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz during Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to Congress, thanking them for their support of his war-torn country.
During one standing ovation, the camera panned to Boebert and Gaetz purposely sitting down scrolling on their phones. Lauren looks like a sad TikTok wannabe influencer in what can only be described as a Daisy Duke halter top while Gaetz appears to be catching up on the latest issue of Sex Trafficking Quarterly.
Let’s just hope that Baby New Year has a happy and healthy 2023 in store for us. I’ll be spending New Year’s Eve watching the sequel to Puss in Boots while drinking the best champagne that my local Monarch Mart has to offer. Ish.