Adult diapers and the inexorable diminishment of quality of life as one ages

I was watching a Stones concert vid from just a few years ago, and couldn't help but ruminate on the fact that, even though I'm now officially a senior citizen, all those guys could, at least theoretically, be of my father's generation.

Charlie Watt's just bought the farm at age 80. Who can imagine rocking and rolling with the greatest rock and roll band in rock and roll history at that age?

But he's gone, and millions of dollars worth of hair transplants buried with him.

What a waste.

The Rolling Stones have provided the soundtrack for the last fifty years of popular culture. They'll be touring again, sans Charlie. The ticket prices will be astronomical. No street-fighting girls and boys anywhere, except those Antifa kids with rich white parents, will be able to afford the freight.

But we love them all the same...

Aswim as we are in our grief at Charlie's passing, life goes on. I ventured forth on a junket to the Indian River Liquor Store this afternoon, to stock up on supplies for the weekend.

That's fifteen minutes one way, and another fifteen back home, for a total of a half hour round trip.

I couldn't do my half hour round trip without ducking down the Church Side-road for an emergency piss on the way home!

Adult diapers here I come!

Las Vegas 10/1... let a thousand conspiracy theories bloom!

Within hours of the Mandalay Bay mass shooting the internet was ramping up with booga booga about what really happened. That's only intensified as we get more information about the alleged shooter.

On the face of it, Stephen Paddock certainly doesn't fit the standard profile of the alienated schmuck who hates his life and wants to get revenge on the world. And why would a well-to-do white senior citizen target a country music show? I thought those guys liked country?

Was the music keeping him up?

That's at least as plausible as a couple of the theories I've seen out there. Like the one where he's an Antifa operative trying to start a race war, for example.  Or alternatively, he's somehow in cahoots with the gun control lobby trying to rile up the public in favour of gun control.

Who comes up with this stuff?

Then there's the innocent dupe theory. Paddock was in the wrong place at the wrong time. A (take your pick) Russian/Mossad/Iranian/North Korean/CIA hit squad needed that room to wreak havoc on America's City of Broken Dreams, and by extension, America itself.

Sure...

One thing that I'm confident of is that we've only seen the very beginning of theory and countertheory. This will be a rich vein for the conspiratorially inclined to mine for years to come.

Another thing I'm pretty sure of is that the odds of actually getting to the truth diminishes in inverse proportion as the number of competing theories blossoms.

They'll be making hay out of this one for the next twenty years.