It turns out that I will be tied up much of today sitting in on another deposition. I will be participating (as a listener) as our attorney deposes a party on the opposing side of this lawsuit. Having been the subject of the deposition myself on Monday, it will be interesting to just be the proverbial mouse in the corner as this other person is deposed. Given that, I’m still not able to get refocused and start writing anything cogent (not that anything I wrote before is at all cogent!).
Yesterday I received my copy of Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s book, Peril, about the last days of the Trump administration and the early days of the Biden administration. I have only read a few pages thus far but I can tell its going to be yet another eye opener. I will hopefully be able to plow through the 400+ page book in short order so I can discuss it early next week.
Meanwhile, Montana, like many other states is on fire with COVID but when you go out and about, you’d hardly know there is a pandemic ravaging the population and overwhelming the hospitals. Very few masks and only about 52% of the population fully vaccinated. Governor Gianforte activated some members of the National Guard to deploy to some of the state’s hospitals to help the overwhelmed staffs. We’re seeing record numbers of cases, hospitals are getting overwhelmed, the National Guard has been activated and many more people are dying but the Governor in concert with the Republican controlled legislature are doing essentially nothing to stem the tide of this plague.
I would be tempted to conclude that their solution is to just let nature take its course ‘a la Darwin’ and let the strong survive. However, since Governor Gianforte doesn’t believe in the Theory of Evolution, I guess that conclusion would be incorrect. So, I don’t really know what the hell their plan is.
I was always taught that if you are doing something and it is not working, the reasonable thing to do is to change your approach and try something different. The current approach of the leadership here in Montana is clearly not working but I guess trying something different is filled with too many political land mines and would require too much political courage. I believe it was Albert Einstein who is credited with the saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Welcome to the asylum!!