There are those who say that President Trump is losing grip on his sanity. Bosh, I say. That is absurd. The president’s mind is as sharp as it can be. I give you two examples to prove my case.

(1)  Last October, Trump said: “The word grocery, it’s sort of a simple word. But it means, like, everything you eat. The stomach is speaking, it always does. And I have more complaints about that – bacon, and things going up double, triple, quadruple.”

In April, Trump said: “It’s such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term: groceries. It’s sort of a bag with different things in it.”

In May, Trump said: “We have a term – groceries. It’s an old term but it means basically what you’re buying, food. It’s a pretty accurate term but it’s an old fashioned sound but groceries are down.”

This week, Trump said: “It was like a strange word. I hadn’t heard the word grocery in so long. But what could be more beautiful than “grocery”?”

(2) And this week, when Trump was asked by a reporter at the christening of the detention center in the middle of the Everglades how long he thought detainees, sent to the detention center, would be staying there. He looked like he heard the question clearly, and he was determined to give the best answer he could, so he said: “I’m gonna spend a lot. This is my home state. I love it. I love your government. I love all the people around…these are all friends of mine……I’ll spend a lot of time here. You know for four years I’ve got to be in Washington, and I’m OK with that because I love the White House. I even fixed up the little Oval Office. It’s like a diamond. It’s beautiful. It wasn’t maintained properly, I will tell you that, but even when it wasn’t it was the Oval Office so it meant a lot. I’ll spend as much time as I can here. You know my vacation is generally here because it is convenient. I live in Palm Beach….”

See? Our president is fine. No wonder all Republican legislators follow his every lead.

The word this morning is that Trump’s BBB is going to pass and be signed into law.  And I guess that means that July 4 will be marred by a signing ceremony. As with much legislation, its impact will be felt over time, with some of the more draconian positions being put on hold until after the 2026 midterms, so we will see what this means to the America we grew up with and expected to live in throughout our lives.

That is an example of a Big Problem. What about the smaller irritations?

Yes, there are the smaller things that are annoying me, especially on my smart phone, where I seem to spend so much time. Some examples:

We have all been irritated by Facebook, where we used to be able to keep up with friends and family, and where we were able to reconnect with people from our past. No longer. Now, I turn on Facebook and I can learn the proportion of Europeans who are red heads, country by country. Or I can see that I am less likely to die in the next decade if I can get up from the floor without using my arms or resting on my knee.

It used to be that if I wanted to look something up on Google, I would get a bunch of links, often starting with Wikipedia. Now, I start with entries created by Google AI, which I ignore because they seem usually to be either partially or totally inaccurate. I downloaded Duck Duck Goose as an alternative to Google, and now questions asked on that platform start with answers from Duck AI.

How about my simple Yahoo account? Why are they now giving me framed edited summaries of emails. Sometimes, they are just repetitive. Sometimes, they miss the point entirely. In no case do I decide not to read the email because I have already read the summary. In these summary boxes, I can check to tell “them” if it was helpful or not. It is never helpful. If there is a way to turn it off and stop receiving these summaries, I haven’t found it.

And these summary boxes were not enough for the mischief makers at Yahoo. They now categorize my emails as All, Priority, Offers and Others. It opens up on Priority, which means each time I have to reset it for All because, as you might suspect, Yahoo has no idea which ones are really priority.

But wait, there’s more. If I get an email with a question. Let’s say it’s a simple question from Edie: “Where are you?”, and I respond by telephoning her to explain when I expect to be home. Yahoo will begin sending me notes: “Respond to Edie? It’s been two days.” And so on.

Stop the world; I want to get off? No, that’s not me. But it would be nice to be able to rewind it a bit and redo the last decade or so.