by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Today finds me back in the Kansas City suburb of Roeland Park (Kansas), a drive of 275 miles that I have made probably 100 times - plus 100 return trips - since retiring from Arizona to the small house with the big yard in West Plains, MO. in 2014. I am here for a medical procedure on Friday which requires some hospital prep work tomorrow.
There were limited things of interest to see on the road to Roeland Park, the first being that I only encountered two dead deer along the roadside, which, for this time of year I felt was an unusually low body count. Normally when the guns start going off, the deer begin jumping onto the roads and getting hit by good ol boys - and some good ol' girls - roaring down the road in big pickup trucks, slamming down beers, texting, and always of the lookout for a deer to hit. It's a bragging rights thing. The youth firearms' season was last weekend. The regular firearms' season for adults is November 14-24, and the deer - and more than a few humans - will be much jumpier then!
The other thing that caught my attention was the lack of political advertising exactly one week before the national midterms. I heard one political ad on the radio, and that was in the Kansas City area. It was promoting Adam Hamilton, the Democrat who has a good shot at defeating incumbent US Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas in next week's election. I was listening to a Springfield, Missouri, radio station earlier in the day when I passed through there and didn't hear any political ads at all. That's not really too odd because everything north and south of the Missouri River that is not Kansas City, St. Louis, or Columbia, is basically red - and when you don't have a serious opponent, and when there are no national candidates on the ballot, what's the point in advertising? (There were a multitude of yard signs in the Kansas suburbs of Kansas City - mostly Democratic. It is one of the bluer sections of the basically red state of Kansas. Sharice Davids, the state's only current Democratic member of Congress, lives in Roeland Park - and I make a point of donating to her campaign fund every election cycle.)
Yesterday, while perusing some personal biographies on Bluesky, I stumbled across a political meme on a lady's site that was so good I was surprised that I hadn't seen it before. As just a small portion of her introductory blurb, the woman described herself as being "almost as liberal as Jesus." Pa Rock is thinking he may just have to steal that and turn it into a bumper sticker. I'm sure the snarling, intolerant "Christians" in my neck of the woods would get a big kick out of it!
Talk me down before I get run off the road!
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