Couple of blocks away is a house very similar to my own in that it’s kept neat and tidy, has lots of flowers and two shiny cars in the drive . I pass by it most days on the way home and on occasion will note a woman trimming the well kept plants. It used to have a small discreet rainbow colored flag fluttering from the wall near the garage door and I noticed it has been recently taken down . I must confess that once or twice I wondered why the two women needed to advertize but as I had no inclination to answer the ad it effected my life not one whit .
Another block away is a house owned by a man with a sour puss . He has the perpetual scowel of a man who’s only energetic effort put forth this past decade was to paint his house and driveway Red White and Blue and hang a giant Lets Go Brandon flag that covers half the front wall. This too effects my life not one whit but if ever given a choice of neighbors it’s highly likely I would choose the flower growers over the man loudly encouraging Brandon . At least the flower growers are doing something in the bedroom and smile a lot.
While we’re talking about neighbors there was a man that rented a house diagonally across the road from us for a year with his extremely young looking wife . The owner moved back in and he was forced to rent another not far away. We’ve just learned he’s been arrested and taken back to Michigan to face charges of 13 counts of sexual assault on minors, one as young as four . Shannon Guay is alledged to have committed these crimes 13 years ago as a gymnast instructor and has freely roamed the country all this time .
Once upon a time a man like that would enter the prison system and be branded a “skinner” and the rest of his short life would be miserable and rightfully so . But things change quite rapidly and it seems we are more open to ignoring real crime lately while we chase woke windmills and such and he may well end up as some kind of MAGA hero in jail while the two flower growers down the road live in fear.
But that’s what we’ve become , isn’t it ? After all, the man who managed to so quickly instill the fear of flower growers all over the United States is running for President and his poll numbers are lagging behind a man with an arrest record . Lyndsey Graham was right six years ago ….
” We’ll Deserve It “
