Grocery Prices are Holding Steady, DEI Terror Over the Skies of DC (allegedly), and Ozzy Osbourne on Ice Skates

ITEM! The golden age has delivered a boon unto me! I received my new loveseat rocker/glider with cupholders on Tuesday. It’s great! I can recline my feet and/or rock/glide like Ozzy Osbourne on ice skates. While rhythmically lurching away, I can rest assured that the liquid in my cup will stay in my cup thanks to cupholders. The possibilities are endless! I could have a glass cup filled with almond milk, or a plastic cup filled with beach plum sparkling water. I could even fill a cup with a favorite snack, like Goldfish Crackers or grapes. The loveseat will keep them all in their respective containers. Truly, we are living on the cusp of a great “golden age.”

In terms of the pending Golden Age, it’s a convenient place to store the bounty of products that are lying in wait; especially after the trump tariffs defy all the laws of economics and drive down the cost of the everyday goods available at the local grocery store. Items like milk, which cost $2.72/gallon in my neck of the woods last week and have held steady. I’ve revised my graph from last week projecting the cost of milk — based on this projection, you’ll never be more than 10 quarters, 2 dimes and 2 pennies from a gallon of milk –

This week’s gas prices suggest that we are in for a bumpy ride. Instead of $1 by the end of May. We’re looking at a price of $2.54/gallon. Then tighten your belt for a 5% hike to $3.67 the following week. However, take heart that by the second week of June, that number will drop to $2.54. Don’t get comfortable! Data suggests that we’re in for a 5% hike to $3.67 the following week. However, take heart that by the fourth week of June, that number will drop to $2.54. Don’t get comfortable! Data suggests that we’re in for a 5% hike to $3.67 the following week. However, take heart that by the second week of July, that number will drop to $2.54…and so on.

All joking aside, with the big tariffs set to take effect on February 4th, those figures will be much different in a way that is bad for the likes of you and me.

But I’m not reviewing the possible future. I’m reviewing our oh so sunny and golden present. For instance, here’s a bar chart comparing today’s prices to prices from two weeks prior for selected products –

DEI and the DC Plane Crash

Though Trump has pronounced DEI dead, it reared its multicultural, gender fluid, polychromatic head one last time to cause a mid-air collision. I rate this claim 4/10, which is an average of the claim’s feasibility — 0/10 and the claim’s efficacy for stirring up the rubes who worship Trump (10/10). Then I’m subtracting one point for donald voting against his own interest — how else could a giant, septuagenarian Oompa-Loompa have reached the highest office in the land without such programs?

Hegseth

Two things –

1. What does a poster-boy for Christian nationalism, an organism made from discarded KKK robes, a lackluster military career, rhetoric, and testosterone know about meritocracy?

2. Two of the last three Secretaries of Defense before Hegseth (Austin and Mattis) were four-star generals, the third (Mark Esper) topped out at lieutenant colonel — still higher than Hegseth — and earned a Ph.D. All of them received training at a military academy, Hegseth did not.

Rating: I’m going to give the Hegseth confirmation a 3/10. Trump could’ve done worse, but not by much.

That said, he could’ve done a whole heck of a lot better.

Project 2025

I’d rate the hullabaloo on this issue a 5/10 — we all knew Trump was going to do it. He claimed and continues to claim that he knows nothing about it, yet he summarily cans 17 inspectors general and offers to buy out 2 million federal employees. Good on Trump for being so shameless, shame on the Democrats and mainstream media for being so toothless.

I think I’ll go lounge in my loveseat while I still have a roof over my head.