Top-5 Mac Musings – August 5, 2025

MATHEMATICALLY CHALLENGED

My math has never mathed. As an English major I can get away with that opening statement, but anything involving basic arithmetic has never once come easy.

While an undergraduate at Gonzaga, I “passed” my math requirement on my fourth attempt. It was a class referred to as “Math for Poets”. I got a C- and let me tell you, it may be my biggest academic accomplishment that I avoided a D+ by the narrowest of margins.

As poor as my math skills are, apparently they are far better than the buffoon currently running the Kennedy Center into the ground1.

Over the course of the last few months, this individual has claimed dozens upon dozens of times that prices on “fill in the ______ here” have fallen 1,000, 1,200, 2,000, 2,500 percent. These asinine claims have been made over and over again in front of dozens of audiences with absolutely zero meaningful pushback.

For those sitting in the back, a $1 billion item that has fallen 100 percent is effectively, say it with me, “FREE”. I can assure you no one has offered any consumer in America a 1,200 percent discount no matter how many sycophants keep parroting this nonsense over the cesspool once known as the Twittersverse.

For those same sycophants who are now bristling about paragraphs above, let me ask you this: If the last guy would have made such an idiotic claim once… one time… it would have been the lead story on Fox for about a month as a definitive sign of dementia. So… what about dozens and dozens of the same lunatic assertion2 ? Anyone?

Also, just to reiterate there is no state in this country that has gas prices averaging $2 or less per gallon3 . Not one.

Thank you for attending my Ted Talk.

And now onto my Top-5 Musings for Tuesday, August 5, 2025.

1. If you haven’t read a Daniel Silva novel, do yourself a favor and check one out. A truly fascinating series of thrilling spy novels featuring Israeli spymaster Gabriel Allon.
2. Anyone who thinks the preamble above is overly “political”, I hereby give you an across the board discount of 1,200 percent on all future blog posts in this space.
3. For those unable to see the irony in the above musing, take heart… This is a safe space.
4. It occurs to me I have yet to have a single caramel Frappuccino from Starbucks this summer. I feel like I have failed the franchise. I need to make amends very soon.
5. I am pumped for the upcoming fourth season of Ted Lasso. I can safely state that season one practically saved my life during the darkest days of the pandemic. I believe in believe.

BONUS TOP-FIVE: Favorite Apple TV series

1. Ted Lasso 
2. Shrinking
3. Hijacked
4. Slow Horses
5. Your Friends and Neighbors

Hon. Mention: Stick

QUOTABLE
“Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called farm price supports.

Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.”

 – Harry Truman, Former United States President, Syracuse, New York, 1952

FOOTNOTES
1 And… by extension, the entire country.

2 For those that don’t think that Mango Mussolini is showing clear signs of dementia, well, bless your hearts.

3 This is probably a good time to mention that this maniac bankrupted casinos, stole money from a children’s cancer charity, was found guilty of business fraud and can no longer operate a business in New York. 

4 I probably forgot to mention the rampant allegations surrounding his BFF Epstein, his 26 allegations of sexual assault his very real sexual assault conviction.