Here’s how my day started: I had one thing that I just absolutely had to accomplish, just one—get my inspection sticker updated. That means, for me, since I now have no one to help with such annoying tasks, getting to the service station I have used for 40 years before they open at 8 am and making sure my car is first in line. Then I have to kill 45 minutes at a coffee shop while they do the inspection, get a call when they are done, walk over to the place, pay, pick up my car and drive home, a less than ten minute drive. To make sure I was first in line, I set the alarm clock that has served me well for 20 years to ring at 7:10 am. That would give me time to wake up, ablute, and get to the station by 7:45.
The alarm rang at 5:35 am. I had set the clock correctly: it just malfunctioned. It’s old, and picked today to break down. Half asleep, I got my super-duper, newest model Apple smart-phone, which I have never once used as an alarm clock, unlike its predecessor. To my horror, the alarm-setting controls were completely different from the earlier model, and absurdly complicated. (This made them better, see.) Half- awake, I tried to puzzle out the device’s twists and turns, which involved two screens, a dial-a-time, a pick-a-sound, volume, a damn check mark, and shifting little buttons to indicate a 7: 10 am wake up alarm. The thing had said “no alarm” and now it didn’t say “no alarm,” which I, fool that I am, assumed meant “alarm.” It didn’t, though I have yet to figure out why. I woke up in a panic at 7:55 am.
I threw on some pants, grabbed my wallet and keys and ran out the door, only to see Spuds looking needy standing behind me. So I hooked him up to his leash to let him relieve himself, which he took his own sweet time doing. Deposited my dog, who promptly went upstairs to take over my bed, ran to the car, sped to the station, and arriving at 8:05 am, found two cars ahead of me, meaning instead of 45 minutes stuck in a shopping and restaurant area, I would be stuck for over two hours, which I can’t afford.
So my inspection sticker is still expired, I got only about 5 hours sleep, I still don’t know how to use my smartphone, and I’m considering either beating my face in with a brick or getting a Jason Voorhees hockey mask and a machete as a prelude to a murder spree.
Amaze me with your ethics eloquence, on the off chance I’m still around to read it.
Ethics Alarms 
Pete Hegseth is been vilified by the Democrats and the MSM about expenditures on lobster and ribeye.
Here is the explation from RedEye:
“The answer to the steak-and-lobster scandal was rather mundane. It was for military dining facilities, in particular those deployed in war zones, or for ships and units whose deployments had just been extended as a sort of consolation prize.“
https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/03/12/hegseth-hatred-leaves-democrat-politicians-and-media-with-egg-on-their-faces-as-well-as-steak-and-lobster-n2200146
No matter how many times leftwingers make a play for the military vote they will consistently prove they have no idea what the military life is like or they do but they hate it.
Someone at our office asked what was the deal with spending money on lobster and steak. Since I knew but wanted another guy to voice it I asked a former marine at our office who wasn’t privy to the question- “what does steak and lobster mean?”
“Means I’m about to be sent to a craphole to be shot at. Or it’s just regular dinner at an Air Force dining facility that I’m not allowed to go to.”
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I find the complaint to be obviously tedious.
What amounts to about .01% of the price of some of the boondoggles the complainers insist are essential for our republic has them raging…?
There’s this weird argument about having plenty of money for bombs but never enough for food for children. Yet I’m sure the math will show that the amount of money the bombs cost is a tiny fraction of the amount we spend on various welfare programs and other quality of life programs.
If the expenditure of the bombs is for a good cause, then the expenditure is worth the price.
If the expenditure of the bombs is for a bad cause, argue against the cause…not the price of the bombs. Because, angry progressives, you never get to cry about the price of anything. Sorry.
To clarify- the army already spends money feeding soldiers. So the price of the steak and lobster *morale treat* should first have subtracted from it the regular price of feeding soldiers.
Then if the progressives want to complain about that paltry sum, which went to a time honored tradition in the military. By all means rant on with your America hating selves.
Kansas revokes drivers licenses of 1700 trans identifying individuals here. Question: does the state of Kansas act ethically here.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/11/report-kansas-revokes-drivers-licenses-of-1700-trans-identifying-individuals/
Yelling Allahu Ackbar in a crowded theater.
Would someone have a reasonable claim of self defense for shooting someone if they felt in mortal danger of a man running into a crowd screaming “allah ackbar!” but was not immediately perceptible as being armed in any way?
I would say yes. The idea of those guys having a bomb hidden somewhere is well established in people’s minds, and not without good reason. Shoot him, perhaps make him drop the bomb switch, maybe survive to face trial tomorrow. Don’t shoot him, he probably blows up the whole seating area, if not the building in full. The math (or at least probabilities) makes sense to me.
I guess I’m the lady you’d want in the jury.
Am I the only one who seems to have to sign in to WordPress to comment? Every time?
Jack, that sounds like a horrible morning.
You can set an alarm on an iPhone without it being a wake up alarm. The morning alarm is far more complicated, but for a simple alarm, hit the clock icon. There is a plus on the right side of the top of the screen. Push that, pick a time, hit the check mark. There are a lot of options, but you can skip them. Those options mean a lot to me, as I use them for a variety of reasons, like school bells, therapy warnings, tutoring times, etc, all with a variety of labels, sounds, snooze options, etc. The basic alarm though is simple and quick. No, Apple does not explain this well and the wake-up alarm sucks to set up.
I want to put out there, is there some ethical or practical reason why we can’t get rid of daylight savings time? Practically everyone wants it. Sure, there’s the debate about whether to keep standard or daylight time, but we pass laws that piss off half the country all the time. What would this matter? Also, even if I got my unpreferred time, the lack of chaos from changing my clocks and dealing with screaming toddlers and starving pets would be worth it. The clock change, especially in the spring, leads to increased deaths, at least by some measures that I have not had time to investigate because my week has been horrible. And throwing off children, pets, and farm animals all for the sake of a tradition that makes no sense today seems…stupid in my sleep deprived brain. Why do we still do this?