stressed without you, but I'm chillin'

One can notice in Reader Comments for news articles, mixed metaphors occur with some frequency.  Sometime I'm going to collect them and make what I think they call "a mash-up."  Maybe Beyoncé could turn it into a song...


"...You thought that I'd be sad without you, I laugh harder
Thought I wouldn't grow without you, now I'm wiser
Thought that I'd be helpless without you, but I'm smarter
You thought that I'd be stressed without you, but I'm chillin'..."





I read that she was working toward saving the world, which is good:  she's got the energy; many of us are tired.


According to Rolling Stone magazine, Beyoncé took part in a festival for a group called Global Citizen, and they aim to end extreme poverty by the year 2030.


This is a good idea.  Lyndon Johnson would get behind that.





So would Martin Luther King.





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Notation:  There's a website called "PolitiFact" that is a non-partisan fact-checker.  You can go there and check stuff.


---------------------------- I was listening to Donald Trump in some news clips:  two things I noticed --


1.  It seems more showmanship than substance, less like a campaign, more like a show.


And 2.  He seemed to talk in circles - he would keep circling back around through phrases and points and say the same things again.


Once when I was in a luncheon meeting listening to a politician speak, I was taking notes on a paper placemat - at the end, when I looked down, I saw that my notes went in a circle -- around and around, on the paper.  (Perhaps I should become a speechwriter for Donald Trump - ha!  I'll write in a circle, and he can talk in a circle...)


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{song excerpt, from "Survivor" -- recorded July 2000, SugarHill Studios, Houston, Texas - Destiny's Child.  Released Feb. 13, 2001.  Genres:  R & B; dance-pop.  Columbia.  Written by Beyoncé Knowles, Anthony Dent, Mathew Knowles.}


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