I need this like a growth, but here I am

I really need this like I need a brain tumor ... but you can only say so much on FaceBook...and God knows my family is sick of listening to me rant.
But I'm an aging ex-Sailor who refuses to "...surrender gracefully the things of thy youth ..." (Yeah, but that pontificating Persian wrote that when he was barely out of his 20s.) So while here, I promise to try and entertain, enlighten, embalm ... whatever. (I can lay claim to that last sequence ... I think it was Larry, Moe and Curly that first used in in public.) I'll talk about guns, government and the like when the spirit(s) move me, and whenever readers stir me up.