In light of the tragedies in Texas and Buffalo NY, the Heir thinks it's actually unhelpful to the U.S. for Canada to propose banning handguns in their country. This will have the effect of pro-gun politicians digging their heels in with their opposition even to things like Red Flag Laws and background checks. The Heir predicts their argument would be (however specious) that such laws are proposed by those who want us to be like Canada. While the recent tragedies once made us seriously consider turning our guns in, the Canadian proposal makes us all now too likely to keep said guns and even get new ones. The Heir wants those outlets doing polls finding that up to 90% of U.S. citizens want background checks and Red Flag Laws to also do a poll on how they also feel about Canada's proposal. The Heir predicts the results to be more divided. His last thought on this post is for people to google the following: Robin Williams Stop Or I'll Say Stop Again. Said comic routine would be enough to exemplify the current moment as of this writing.

The Heir -definitely- doesn't conform. This is about that one poll that claimed that 74% of Americans describe themselves as -very anxious- about inflation. Don't get us wrong, because the Heir's no inflation freak. He's just as against it as everyone else. But -unlike- everyone else, he feels mildly annoyed rather than "very anxious." He doesn't look forward to seeing how his index funds are doing what with the beating that the S&P 500's been taking, but he hasn't noticed any severe lowerage in his regular bank accounts. Contrast to seven years ago when the Heir was the one who was "very anxious" in 2015 when everyone else was doing great and he got laid off. He was told, hey get with the program, the economy's doing -great!-. But now he believes that his financial fortunes are the -opposite- of everyone else's. When everyone else does great, he does terribly. When the Heir does great, everyone else does terribly. So maybe the Heir shouldn't necessarily welcome the end of inflation, because that's when things start to suck for him if they get better for everyone else. That would certainly be the case when the hard sell marketers make a comeback on Postinflationary America. The Heir tunes into Bloomberg 7:30am in the morning, and his takeaway is that the hard sell marketers and the moguls of personal corruption they tend to dovetail with are already making plans for what our culture "must" be like once inflation is over. He's not sure what they'll try to sell or what they'll try to say. But he's sure of two things. A. They'll resort to red herring and slogan arguments. B. It'll be a bad thing for the Heir if like in 2015 he's not "getting with the program." But he's not going to be taken down in 2023 onwards like he was in 2015. He's learned, he's got a defensive posture in the increasing ready, and he will make the marketers sorry they ever messed with him.

While the Heir was looking through his YouTube list for animal/pet and travel videos to add to his Watch Later list, he caught sight of the Fat Albert movie under the Free With Ads section. He deleted it from his list, but he wondered whether he should do a Report on it, because it's associated with Cosby, and he thinks Cosby was an executive producer for the movie. He'll probably consider doing so if Fat Albert reappears in his list, because under no circumstances should a video provider take the shackles off a confirmed sex offender's artistic works just because the offender may have gotten a get-out-of-free-jail-card last July. The Heir's not aware of any option to keep an entire slate of content from his lists accordingly, but the Fat Albert movie may be the only item the Heir may end up seeing out of the mostly retired Cosby these days. But we the people should have the right to control what commercial content is thrown our way that bear such a general criminal association. No-one needs Cosby using the Fat Albert movie to try to say in-your-face to those of us still concerned about principle.