Rolling Along

Our first summer without a sailboat is slowly progressing.  The Kadizzle's are enjoying the back yard. Mrs. Kadizzle is obsessed with the yard and gardening.  The yard is pruned, and the weeds are in retreat in the garden.  Mrs Kadizzle constantly complains about how much work the garden is, but will not give it up.

The little berg of Hazen seems peaceful.  The city commissioners have finally acted on a request Kadizzle made five years ago.  The impossible has reached the point of almost being possible. Kadizzle asked the city to enforce the junked car ordinance.  After five . years the city has revised the ordinance and may actually enforce the new ordinance.

This brings to mind the slow races Kadizzle used to have in the back yard.  When the little Kadizzles were growing up there was a bunch of neighborhood kids that had to be entertained.  Kadizzle had to constantly challenge them with races and games.  One day the brilliant idea of a slow race came to mind.  Here is how a slow race works.  You line up the kids and explain to them they have to race around the garden.  The last one to make it around the garden is the winner.  A slow race is fun to watch.  The only rule is you have to make some visible movement.  The whole thing throws the kids minds into a tizzy.  The concept of being last and going slow they just cannot grasp.  Kadizzle gets to play the part of the announcer by declaring who is doing the best job of going nowhere.  The real beauty of a slow race is it take so long.  In fact most slow races never end and have to be declared over before the first furlong.

Politicians seem to be excellent slow racers.  What county can be last to have decent health care?  What county can be last to quit endless wars?  When it comes to slow racing Republicans are the winners. They cheat by actually going backwards.   Strange non of the kids ever thought of the Republican strategy.   It is actually a good strategy.  If you slow race backwards you are getting to the finish line quicker.  Since the start is the finish maybe Trump and his gang are on to something.  You back up slowly, then move forward slowly and you win.  Hmm, this all makes sense now.  Of course appointing hopeless people to every position helps immensely with backing up.  North Dakota seems to be adopting the slow race technique.  Measure one moves us forward, and the Republican move it backwards.