Smart People Doing Stupid Stuff

No, this is not about Twitter or Facebook. An interesting pirate pal of Skully's is just slightly to the right of Atilla The Hun. Actually, he would probably take offense at the "slightly" part. No matter, I happen to like the guy. Combination programmer and fire arms dealer. Now, he's a pretty informed guy and quite intelligent. Since we tend to disagree on a lot of things - fewer as Skully gets older - one might think that after I read his weekly newsletter (publishes several), my anger was based the slant of his comments. Quite the opposite.

He quoted somebody worthy of quoting (in his opinion) in that Obama was sworn in without the use of a Bible. This pissed me off! Who is this guy standing in front of the American public, being sworn in to the highest office in the land and doing it without the requisite Bible.

Fortunately, one of Skully's Jr. Pirates heard the rantings spewing forth from the fore deck and said, "Uh, pop, you might want to check your sources. Obama was sworn in using Lincoln's Bible. It's been all over the news". I checked. Sure enough, Abe's Bible was right there on the stand.

To Skully's friend: "You used to piss me off because of your position, now you piss me off because you spew out wrong stuff and in Skully's opinion, you do it on purpose just to scare and anger people". Hmmm... sounds like he would make a darn fine politician (exactly the people he says he despises for exactly the same reasons.