We've Been Wondering

There are things that make us wonder and we've been wondering about certain things for a while...  Like if a letter is silent was it it there?  Take Ghislaine Maxwell.  When we first saw her name in print we were trying to figure out how to pronounce it.  Ghis translates into what?  Was it pronounced "Ghh-is", sort of like Chris in Christmas?  And then was it "lainee'"?  Because we knew she was French.  But then we find out that the "h" is silent and so it seems is the "s" and so is the "i" in laine.  So her name is pronounced "Ga-lane."  Which begs the question why don't we all just type Ga-lane from now on?  Of course that's only if she stays in the news and doesn't catch the suicide thing.  The suicide thing is a lot like the Covid thing.  It can be the end of you.  And we're going to type it "Ga'lane" with little ' accent in there because she's French.

And why can't Hillary run for President again?  This is the third time for Trump and the fourth or fifth for Biden.  We've lost count.  But Hillary?  She only gets to run once.  Is that fair?  And like why?  Is she too young at only 76?  She'll turn 80, somewhere in her first term just like the other two guys.  So, is it because she's a woman?  The old glass ceiling thing?  Is it the Russians?  Did they say don't even think about letting her run?  It's not fair.  Yeah, yeah we know we're repeating ourselves but that's how unfair it is.

And speaking of the Covid thing, we always wondered what the six feet was about?  If you remember we were all told to stay six feet away from each other.  Why six feet?  Why not five or ten or maybe even better, fifty?  Was it supposed to invoke the same distance as six feet under.  You know how deep you get buried to add more shock and awe?  But now we know from out of the mouth of Dr. Fauci who said.  "It just sort of appeared."  Did he mean like an apparition?  Like Jacob Marley from Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'?  Or was it more like Casper the Friendly Ghost?  Or was it like the Myrmidons of ancient Greece, the loyal followers of Achilles who some legends say rose out of the earth?  Fauci said this in a Congressional hearing and like a lot things with the Congress people, they didn't follow up.  So we will all be, left to wonder.

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