Before I type another word, you need to know. I am on drugs.
Doctor's orders. But make no mistake, I started a new chemo regimen Monday and the new mix isn't near as mellow as the last cocktail. Not seeking sympathy or making excuses, just maybe a little warning.
I'm typing under the influence.
Now we can get on with it. There are many, many things that make me shake my head and wonder. It's tempting to say "these days" at the end of that last sentence, but there have always been things that make me shake my head and wonder. It's just amplified in our social media world.
A little clarification. There's a good shake my head and wonder and there's a bad shake my head and wonder. We're on about the bad wondering shake today.
I'm stuck on this because last week an elected state senator took one look at a bipartisan bill that would put books in the hands of every single pre-school child in Kentucky through a partnership with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and his very first thought, before asking a single question, was to add an amendment stopping any state funds from being used, which essentially would kill the bill.
I honestly cannot get my head around this. Of all the crazy things happening right now, and there are a lot from many different places, this is the one I just can't attribute to anything but sheer, blind idiocy.
Why would any red blooded American citizen no matter the party want to kill a bill with Dolly Parton's name attached that puts books in every kid's hands in your state? This is the first evidence of lizard people overtaking the government I'll accept. The only other explanation is stupid.
After a couple of days hearing it from the governor, members of his own party who co-sponsored the bill, and I'm sure a somewhat pointed conversation with Senate President Stivers, Senator Mike Nemes of Shepherdsville in the 38th district, withdrew his amendment.
At that point, anyone with a functioning brain stem would have said, "Just a misunderstanding on my part, after a wonderful conversation with the bill's sponsors, I withdrew the amendment and I'm completely on board."
But no, Mr. Nemes chose another route. He explained and I paraphrase, "They sent me five books and they were fine books. But they were printed in China. I'm for the American workforce. Who knows, next they might be written in China."
Evidently, Mr. Nemes believes Dolly Parton could be brainwashing our children for the coming Chinese takeover because why else would he want to kill a bill without any question or conversation with anyone who created it.
Unless he's a lizard person. And I am here to say, defiantly and proudly, no one, no matter their party affiliation, who is a lizard person should be elected to anything in Kentucky or any other state. Nobody that stupid either.
Choosing to deny children of books because they're printed in China is as bad as handing them drugs. Take it from someone currently on them.