THE REALITY SHOW #5

FRUMPERY
It’s not in the dictionary and it’s a no-go for scrabble, but it’s a remainder to me how much I still have to learn and how little time I’ve got left to do that. At a time we’re all bent out of shape over the sad state of American politics, not to mention the Euro and what’s up at the Oscar’s, maybe it’s time to take a breather and kick around some-thing different, like frumpery.
The word surfaced when I was viewing a bunch of U.S. Senators on TV explaining how doing nothing beats the hell out of trying to do something. The sight of a bunch of old geezers playing dress-up with their pockets bulging with easy money caused me to slump back in my chair and wonder how and where in the world did things go so wrong.
I gave my desperate search for sanity one more chance by watching the debates among the hopefuls for the GOP presidential nomination. To my horror, I truly believed that we had been invaded by aliens aiming to take over the world by posing as mannequins that recommended the electrocution of Mexican immigrants and war on Iran, all of which only made me slump even deeper into my chair. Frumpery is alive and well!