Where I Evolved: 'Why Not Allow People To Have Their Delusions'

Probably up to the late 1990s....I was pretty open to the idea of allowing people to have delusions.  If people wanted to have invisible friends....believing they have talent (when they have none)....beliefs that they have medical conditions (when they have none)....believing that husband-x is engaged in infidelity when they aren't....I just let it go.

At some point....over a pretty short period....I dumped the free-to-have-delusions 'ticket', and started to get blunt.  If a guy or gal needed plain old 'get-your-act-together'....I gave it to them.

Part of this reality got intense as the trans-business started up.  

The intellectual arguments currently?  It simply leads back to some invisible or fake-reality. 

The idea that there are more of the delusionary crowd today....than in 1980?  That is the troubling part of this discussion.  I might have run into five or six people a year who had this issue.  Today....via social media or the news media...I probably observe five or six a day.

My Stop-In-The-Middle-Of-Nowhere-Parking-Lot Story

 My German wife hyped up a vacation in Italy....at the Garda Sea (northern quarter of Italy)....where we would drive from central Germany down.  I agreed to this, and had a fine route drawn.  Everything ran according to plan (excepting turning 'left' in Milano).  (Another story I'll tell one day)

After seven days...it's time to return.  I suggested a alternate route.

This would avoid the tunnel-business, and we would literally drive OVER the Alps.  When I say over....it means elevation climbs of 3,000 to 5,000 feet up.

At some peak-point....after a massive climbing experience with the car....we hit the peak area....where the Italians have a gravel parking lot for folks to halt, and get a 'whiff' of fine air.  It's at this point....the last five minutes....I start to notice cows just wandering around....no fencing....just loose.

So we hit the gravel parking area....I stop, and the wife agrees...it's a fine time to exit the car....get pictures, and get a 'whiff' of real fresh air.

She opens the door, and steps out without looking, and I've managed to park the car (with her door)....on a fairly fresh cow-paddy.  Full-step in.

There was about ten minutes of German cursing, and naturally.....I was blamed for the parking location.

This one event....labeled the alternate route....a complete and utter failure.

But this was not the worst part of the trip....about 30 minutes later....I came to discover that the brakepads were finished, and brakes marginally worked for the remainder of the trip home.  Monday morning....came the mechanic's view....roughly $1,500 for a full-complete brake job. 

Whenever trips come up now....where driving is an element....the route there, and back....have to be laid out completely....with no crazy Alps alternate routes possible.  

WNBA: Earth-Shattering Landscape

 There's supposed to be a WNBA 'draft' to occur shortly.  In the past ten days....two former NBA 'guys' have come forward to say....they identify as 'women', and want to participate in the draft. Top-class players?  No....I'd rank both as retired or bottom 200 of NBA players.

So the deal?

All these years....the friendly LGBTQ-WNBA....had no rule about players.  If you asked owners or players....they could NOT explain what a woman was (even with the 'W' in the name).

So the males of the NBA just laughed over this....until this point.  

The league boss?  There's to be an emergency meeting this week....owners and player's association.  Somehow.....they have to define a woman....then spell out a rule that people who identify as a woman (but aren't)...can't play in the WNBA.

Yeah....from the LGTBQ crowd....the 'T' is to be deleted....at least when talking basketball.

Players hyped-up?  I get the impression that around 50-percent aren't happy making such a rule or identifying who can be a woman.

The idea that rule cannot be agreed upon (by the team owners)?  Well....then the draft would be open, and they'd probably just say they won't draft pretender-women...leading to a court episode.

To be honest, we are around 15 years away from having the RNBA....the robot-league, and all this BS won't matter. We will agree....robots play better basketball than the WNBA.