Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, March 3, 2025

  • It’s hard not to talk about politics when the new administration is directly responsible for your unemployment by terminating your job. It’s been a challenging couple of weeks. I’m fortunate to say that I accepted a job offer on Friday and my start date is a week from today. While it’s going right back to the same environment that continues to be rocked and is unstable because of DOGE and the new administration, it’s something, for now. Supposedly funding for this project was already approved by Congress and dollars are accounted for, but I’m also hearing how contracts and other things are still behind canceled left and right and recinded offer letters. So, for right now, I’m able to catch my breath at least a little, but I’m cautious it can all change on a dime. Just to be on the safe side, I’m still job hunting.
  • Interestingly, one benefit my new company provides is unlimited time off.
  • It’s crazy how half the country could not be happier with the state of affairs and the other half feels this is the most unstable our government has ever been. It’s hard to complain knowing this is exactly what the voting electorate knew what they were getting and this is what they wanted. I want to give the new administration the benefit of the doubt, but it’s hard when the people you have forged relationships with are no longer able to provide for their family because of DOGE. It’s bewildering how it takes six to eight months for me to have a full background check performed on me with representatives from the Department of Homeland Security interviewing my friends and family and verifying my work and educaiton history and DOGE staff not even old enough to rent a car have more clearance and access than I do almost immediately.
  • Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall
  • ‘Never felt more betrayed’: Red-state Army vet rages after Elon Musk fires him three times
  • I remember most of my conservative friends were elated when Dubya was elected and enacted the rule that a suit and tie was required inside the Oval Office because it helped bring dignity back to the office. Today conservatives are frustrated that President Zulenskyy didn’t wear a suit but are totally chill when Elon Musk wears a ballcap and a t-shirt. How hypocritical can you get?
  • “POC” was targeted because they thought it meant “people of color.” It stood for “point of care” in medical emergencies: This Is the Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.” – ProPublica
  • Charles Barkley was once traded to the Lakers, celebrated by drinking excessively, and later in the day found out the Sixers nixed the deal and had to play in a game. – Twitter
  • For some reason, I wanted to honor Gene Hackman by watching some of his movies that I never got around to watch. First up, Unforgiven, which he won his second Academy Award for. Dang, that was an exceptional western. I have this habit of watching older movies like these, then researching what the audience and reviewers thought at the time of release. After that was Mississippi Burning. Wow, that was something else. It was interesting watching a young Frances McDormand and Willem Dafoe. Dafoe said that he usually wouldn’t have taken such a role but he was eager to work with Hackman at least once in his career and lept at the opportunity. Other actors of note that caught me by surprise were Stephen Tobolowsky (Ned Ryerson from Groundhog Day), Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy), and R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket).

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