Thursday Thoughts: Fact or Funny?
I’ve been blogging for seven years, which isn’t a long time. The first blog was started in 1994 by Justin Hall on his site Links.net. I’ve been cynical, satirical, and sometimes informative, but always try to be entertaining to the few who actually read it (Thanks, BTW).
Current events are something to refer to when trying to decide what to write about, and since politics are always in the news, it’s only a matter of time before someone is going to make fun of something that a politician does.
Being Canadian, it would make sense to poke fun at our leaders, but in all honesty, they just are not as entertaining as the ones down south. And when I say “the ones” I really mean THE one.
A search of my blog showed very few posts mentioning Joe Biden. During his term, late-night hosts poked fun at his age, rambling stories, the aviator glasses, tripping up the stairs, falling of a bike, and near the end, his declining mental capacity.
But he doesn’t come close to the current leader who feeds us constant fodder to make jokes about, and as a self-proclaimed humourist* I have to go where the jokes grow. I always try to include facts with the funny, and I know you can tell the difference.
I hope you don’t grow weary of the homogeneous content, I would be extremely pleased if I didn’t have anything to satirize about the current US administration, but we all know that’s a pipe dream.
How do I know that? Well, his recent whine is that he thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, but that’s a whole other story…
-Leon
*Today I am using the Canadian/British spelling out of patriotism, but I usually revert to American conventions (as I do in my books) since the majority of my readers are in the US, and it’s also a way to get out of paying tariffs.
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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