The coming year may be definitive for our collective future, and I am considering reviving the Biped Twilight blog as a chronicle of the species doom that we are attempting to reverse. Help me decide.
I gave it up several years ago as it was not clear to me that it had attracted a readership sufficient to justify the considerable effort involved. I am bad at self-promotion and did not—do not—wish to engage with a lot of mindless harping from ill-intentioned online pontiffs. So it faded away—until now.
I would restart the running commentary on life in the rapidly disappearing biped habitat if a modest number of people were to express interest in reading it. In the interestes of full disclosure, here are the initial concepts that would reign herein: (FYI, my pronoun is “Their Majesties.”)
-We desperately need a radically different candidate for president from the Democrat camp. I have my preference and will be respectful toward one-and-a-half other members of the current crop. The others are useless corporate toadies and will be dismissed as beneath “our” notice.
-That said, the Trumpian camp has a legitimate beef in that the FBI and CIA have been guilty of egregious abuses of power, which will certainly not surprise anyone with an ounce of historical memory. In fact, I anticipate that the entire Putingate episode is going to boomerang badly as the investigation of these acts proceeds, up to and possibly including criminal indictments, which will give Trump a massive talking point heading into November.
-Beyond the personalities of the candidates presented to us in a little less than a year, we need to see a massive increase in citizen action to stave off disaster. I plan to engage in it and will be a broken record on the topic.
A trial balloon post will be sent up in a day or two. Kindly IM me if you wish to be counted as a potential member of the audience. If there is sufficient curiosity, I will proceed. If not, I will fire my barbaric snark in short bursts over the roofs Facebook or perhaps the Twitter.
