Reflections From a Murky Pond

Mission Accomplished

Sadly, the biggest question isn’t how we managed to fail so badly; nor is it how anyone, even a shucking and jiving expert such as Obama, could spin it into an accomplished mission. No, the biggest and most maddening question is what mission?

When the boy acting as the POTUS sums up his own foreign policy as, “Don’t do stupid shit,” and seems to believe that almost anything that America might do – aside from semi- or mis- targeted airstrikes and drone strikes – is “stupid shit,” failures such as Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Ossetria, and Ukraine are to be expected.

As I write this article, the minimum wage has risen or will rise this week in 20 states, the most widespread non-federally mandated raise in the minimum wage in US history.

This is the result of a national “movement” of low-wage workers, their advocates, labor unions, and Left-wing politicians fomenting anger, discord, and hysteria about the supposedly widening gap between the rich and the “poor” in the United States.

Raising The Lowest Rung

Of course, the presumably unintended consequences of raising the minimum wage is that teens just entering the workforce, especially Black teens, will find it more difficult to get a job. Simply put, raising the lowest rung puts it out of reach of the less able.

So what will happen is that more youths will find it harder to break into the employment market and that this barrier will “disproportionately impact” Black youths, thereby helping to perpetuate and exacerbate the syndrome of Black unemployment, poverty, criminality, and dependence upon- and cognitive servitude to government largess.

Not so oddly, I predicted this a year and two days ago. Also not so oddly, I’m less than perfectly pleased by being right.

Work Sucks, Let’s Go Break Something

This perfectly sums up the Blacks’ “protests” in Ferguson, New York City, and other, utterly uninvolved areas. Cornholio would be proud of them.

A Hot Breakfast

Gentlemen – and the rest of you guys and not too few women – my suggestion for you is to start your day and your year, this being the first morning of 2015, with a good, satisfying, hot breakfast.