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I'm Feeling Contrary

I was looking for another name for this blog; pretty amazing the variety of specific, seemingly idiosyncratic phrases that have already been taken by somebody starting up a blog on blogger.com.  Took me an hour to get to this option, which doesn't cover everything I had intended, but does at least convey the possibility that my intentions include attacking the criminal configuration of the current Republican party from the perspective of one who has, on several occasions over three decades, chosen "Republican" when registering to vote.  I don't know that that choice made me a member of the Republican party, exactly -- after all, no one in that organization ever had a chance to say yea or no to my choice -- but it was my own declaration of affinity.  Hence "The Republican Bonfire" points to my sense of the catastrophic decline of the party from what many readers will consider a not particularly elevated level previous to Trump, and lays claim to my desire to have a contrarian ability to point to fires and determine their sources -- much as the California fire investigators must do for the range of recent conflagrations -- and by the way, today's a red flag day in Northern California, so no lighting up of cigarettes or joints in the great outdoors, okay?

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