Pardon My Principles         

As the dreary, disappointing, never-ending US Presidential election campaign wound its way through the early summer months, I did my best to ignore it. I posted nothing here about it, other than this post about some ignorant (post-Biden/Trump debate) statements by a former Mayor of Atlanta. My one constant comment when the topic arose, as it too often did, was to say ‘Neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump should ever be allowed within 1000 yards of The Oval Office’

In July, however, I changed my tune, to ‘Neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump should  ever be allowed within 1000 yards of The Oval Office’.

Now that Joltin’ Joe has issued a Presidential pardon to his son Hunter, I must once again change my tune, to ‘We’re sure gonna miss Biden once that unprincipled asshole Trump is inaugurated, eh?’.

Coda: the news-reader on CBC Radio One at noon today actually said that Biden’s justification for the pardon ‘almost sounded like something Donald Trump would say’.

One really can’t make this shit up.