The $20.00 Dump

 There is something awry when you must pay $20.00 to empty your garbage.  We pay for sewer, water, and power, and the costs continue to rise.  Wages have been stagnant for decades.  The rich have gotten richer, and the poor still are poor.  I paid out-of-pocket today twenty dollars to bury a couch.  I didn't chop it into pieces and drop it by the railroad tracks as per Mark Werling's suggestion.  Once I did that, and it landed me in environmental court.  I plead "guilty" after cleaning up my mess and finding contrition, and the judge fined me $500.00.  He slammed the gavel down and declared me a sinner.  The courtroom erupted in laughter, and the well-dressed white boy became infuriated and shouted, "Corruption!" at the top of his lungs.  I shouted this out of his court room, down the elevator, through the lobby, and all the way to my car.  I was livid.  He took advantage of me.  Plead guilty, and  crooked judge will take your money whether you are guilty are not.  Lesson learned.  Today instead I paid $20.00 to deposit our couch at the Anne Street landfill.  Twenty dollars most people don't have to spare to pay for garbage disposal, especially when they take the time to haul it to the dump and unload it themselves.  I paid it anyway, because I needed to get rid of it.  Not dump it on the street.  Not chop it into pieces and drop it by the railroad tracks.  Load it yourself into the back of your pick up and carry it yourself to the landfill.  Next subject please.  Joe Biden is in Ireland hiding from Donald Trump.  The long arm of the mafia is flexing, and the news is a stunted mess of negative propaganda.  It is time for Joe to return home and face the music.  Inflation is out of control, and prices continue to rise.  Violence is commonplace and expected.  The last time I remember this is 1970, and we don't have a Viet Nam war.  Perhaps we should. Domestic violence is less when the troops are gone.  Since they like to fight, they might be well-served in Ukraine.  All ready we are in World War lll.  There are no poppies to harvest, only blood to let.  Ukraine produces many of our products, and Mr. Putin is destroying all of them.  It is senseless, diabolical, and evil.  He must have dementia.  "The Donald" must have dementia.  It is difficult discerning dementia, but we must try.  Senselessly destroying Ukraine is insane.  Insane.  Insanity.  Train.  3:00 freight train.  "Chasing the Trane."  It was a long say, and nothing is getting better.