'politics' Category
sliding down to the end of the year
I am not making good progress on my annual Chanukah poem, but the Holiday Challenge proceeds apace. I’m at 93,000m, just a bit short of halfway; that’s behind last year’s pace, but still on track to finish well ahead of Christmas Eve (if I don’t skimp any qorkouts, I should finish on December 18). That’s […]
some good, some bad, some really f’ing irritating
The weekend’s good thing: driving out to the lake house went well again. Ted had taken the week off, since he’s got vacation time to burn, and gone down there with the cats, though I’m under the impression that he still ended up working more than not. He’s not good at working less. I drove […]
Some Yom Kippur thoughts
This morning as I was getting ready for work, I was thinking about the approaching holiday. Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Jews are supposed to repent for their sins in the previous year, and ask forgiveness from Lowe’s they have injured or offended. I’m sure that this year, as every year, I have Knight […]
Charlottesville: two points
I have a question. Is there *any* accurate (non-alt-right) evidence that the “antifa” engaged in unprovoked violence in Charlottesville? I am seeing a few well-intentioned people saying that they deplore racism yada yada but that they deprecate violence on *both* sides. I went combing through the news and the only evidence I could find of […]
Not one day
For the past year, on places like Facebook or Ravelry, I’ve been using an icon with a quote from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award sonnet – the words “love is love is love is love is love” on a rainbow background. In the years I’ve been on social media, whether LJ or FB or Ravelry, I’ve […]
Jackson and the inevitability of war
President Trump said something very silly about Andrew Jackson. This is no surprise, because I don’t expect him to have any knowledge of history (or morals, which are reqruird to realize that maybe the guy who kicked native Americans off their land or kept slaces didn’t have such a “big heart”). What’s a bit annoying […]
War is not healthy
When I was a small child, back in the days when hippies roamed the earth, there was a poster above my bed with the words: WAR is not healthy for children and other living things Apparently I internalized that message, because my immediate gut response to Trump launching “the mother of all bombs” into Syria […]
assorted WTFery
The White House’s web page had now posted descriptions of each item of the Bill of Rights (“summaries” about as long as their originals) in which they consistently replace “the people” with “citizens”. Whitehouse.gov page Original Bill of Rights But I’ve just had the most graphic proof that political delusions and ridiculous euphemisms are no […]
defending my people
I promised myself to quit engaging on FB and on political topics in general because of the high blood pressure – but maybe writing it out is better than thinking it over and letting it fester. I’m beginning to get that feeling that supposedly elected Trump – that feeling that my kind of people are […]
Electoral College – why?nope, nope, nope and not that reason either.
I’ve had so much to say since this election, but this hasn’t felt like the right place to say it, for two reasons: one is that as far as I can tell this site is mostly read by people of like mind who are already thinking the same things, and the other is that everything […]