February 20, 2018

today I shall be called El Supremo

Good morning blog readers. It is a wet warm day here at the old blogstead. Temperatures are slated to broach 70 today. Too bad it is raining.

Locally some high school kids who “ identify” as someone different than who they used to be are throwing a fit because the school insists on putting their legal name on their diploma as opposed to the name they are currently using. Government entities are funny that way. Your driver’s license, social security card, tax documents, etc. have the same policy. Good luck getting a credit card or bank account using a non-legal name.

The real truth it all about disrupting, about trying to be famous, about forcing your mindset on the rest of us. Call yourself Mars Venus Zapata for all I care. You are still Bob Jones as far as the real world says until you change your legal name. Bob Jones is who you are on your diploma, license, and legal documents. Sorry if you don’t like it. Life ain’t fair.

4 comments:

  1. I want to be called Vermin Supreme today.
    Oh wait! There is already one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d_FvgQ1csE

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  2. Sure let high school students make the laws.

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  3. Kids are so accustomed to thinking a thing is true and having people humor them, that they cannot think far ahead. Besides, are they supposed to know all this legal stuff we learned by listening to others?

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  4. I blame parents.

    If I’d tried something like this, my dad would have whopped me upside the head.

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