o, Carol C, I was trying to weasel out of old issues coming up, but the sense or nonsense of what I mean to say is muddy without it.

The ad was for Ky Congresswoman Ann Northup who begins by refusing to talk about herself because, she dirndles, "Ew! It's too embarrassing!" (I have the same problem--personal frigging awesomeness is a heavy burden.) Then members of her family talk at some length about why she should be sainted, knighted, and bronzed. (I hate it when all my family members do that.) Then the ad ends, like a punch-line, with "I'm Ann Northup and I approved this ad."
My issue here is not political, or the breakdown of civility, or anything but the breakdown of Things Making Any Sense. If it's too embarrassing, there's modesty, and all those issues she cares so much about. It's like the sign.

The movie was The Passion of The Christ, which I expected something more from, after all the fuss. There's a lot of smiting. There are some white Holiday Inn hand towels. There's the Mom from Peter Pan who is always sort of pleasant to see. But there's not enough of Jesus being like Jesus, the one in the book, to even make me feel that way about the guy in the movie. He seems nice enough, but with a troubling background story--the effect of the movie is kind of like Brad with the big brain getting shot in Pulp Fiction, but it takes much longer. I suppose I'm supposed to know it's -->JESUS and go from there, but that's not how I usually watch movies. He's just a sign for Jesus, and there's more Christian stuff going on in lots of movies that never even mention it. I think.

And then an odd person here on the forum has fussed at me in ways that, well, I can see that they are saying something, and using words, but they don't quite mean anything. I'm trying to figure out how to be insulted by them, just to be social, but my interlocuter seems to have merely pegged me more or less correctly, yes, right--then lapsed into some sort of gibberish. I was going to apologise, because I don't understand it, like I don't get the sign above, but we got disconnected. I have unanswered questions, like, "Huh?" and "What?"

In the epiphany I'm trying to have, I seem to be connecting this all together into an absurd but logical dream-world. I'm thinking maybe a paradigm has shifted, and we're entering the misinformation age.