I am a refugee from Facebook who is seeking asylum in a blog. I cannot count the number of times I’ve been thrown in their gulag for using sophisticated humor or sarcasm or irony. I was thrown off their site (presumably for good) after posting a meme fearuring Jesse Owens getting hid gold medal at the 1936 Olympics. You are right, that makes no sense. I had almost 30,000 friends and followers at the time.

I started over as Jim Corbett and quickly rose to have some 7, 000 friends and followers. Still, they kept throwing me off, the final time for commenting on a post from an octogenerian about his lonely life. I jokingly commented that he would be visited by someone from the escort service. I guess they thought I was selling sex. Sure, a 78 year old geezer was selling sex to an 80 something geezer. Give me a break. Their community standards program is beyond incompetence.

I’ve gotten many emails from former FB freinds pleading for me to find a way to connect again. Several suggested a blog since Facebook is hopeless, Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, and the other sites seemed aimed at kids. So, here I am!

At present, I have no idea where I will go with this concept, other than experiment for a while. On Facebook, I posted a number of humorous and political memes along with occasional musings on our politics and current events. I may do more of the latter here but, as an experiment, anything is possible.

Join me in this experiment. Let me know what you are thinking. I can be reached at:

corbettirp@aol.com