Sometimes it feels as if the Universe is conspiring to keep me out of Russellville.
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Tricks of the gods
Possible deal breaker appeared today. Realtor working to repair.
AMAZING!??! in a "toy thing of the gods" sort of way.
AMAZING!??! in a "toy thing of the gods" sort of way.
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
James Baldwin on America
From the new documentary ...
It’s not a question of what happens to the Negro here or to the black man here—that’s a very vivid question for me, you know—but the real question is what is going to happen to this country. I have to repeat that.
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In the years in Paris, I had never been homesick for anything American— neither waffles, ice cream, hot dogs, baseball, majorettes, movies, nor the Empire State Building, nor Coney Island, nor the Statue of Liberty, nor the Daily News, nor Times Square. All of these things had passed out of me. They might never have existed, and it made absolutely no difference to me if I never saw them again. But I had missed my brothers and sisters, and my mother. They made a difference.
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They don’t want to believe, still less to act on the belief, that what is happening in Birmingham is happening all over the country. They don’t want to realize that there is not one step, morally or actually, between Birmingham and Los Angeles.
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I’m terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don’t think I’m human. And I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.
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I have always been struck, in America, by an emotional poverty so bottomless, and a terror of human life, of human touch, so deep, that virtually no American appears able to achieve any viable, organic connection between his public stance and his private life.
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What I’m trying to say to this country, to us, is that we must know this… …we must realize this, that no other country in the world has been so fat and so sleek, and so safe, and so happy, and so irresponsible, and so dead. No other country can afford to dream of a Plymouth and a wife and a house with a fence and the children growing up safely to go to college and to become executives, and then to marry and have the Plymouth and the house and so forth. A great many people do not live this way and cannot imagine it, and do not know that when we talk about “democracy,” this is what we mean.
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To watch the TV screen for any length of time is to learn some really frightening things about the American sense of reality. We are cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly. These images are designed not to trouble, but to reassure. They also weaken our ability to deal with the world as it is, ourselves as we are.
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All of the Western nations have been caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism; this means that their history has no moral justification, and that the West has no moral authority.
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The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story. What can we do? Well, I am tired…. I don’t know how it will come about. I know that no matter how it comes about, it will be bloody; it will be hard. I still believe that we can do with this country something that has not been done before. We are misled here because we think of numbers. You don’t need numbers; you need passion. And this is proven by the history of the world. The tragedy is that most of the people who say they care about it do not care.
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What they care about is their safety and their profits. The American way of life has failed— to make people happier or make them better. We do not want to admit this, and we do not admit it.
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In this country, for a dangerously long time, there have been two levels of experience. One, to put it cruelly, can be summed up in the images of Gary Cooper and Doris Day: two of the most grotesque appeals to innocence the world has ever seen. And the other, subterranean, indispensable, and denied, can be summed up, let us say, in the tone and in the face of Ray Charles.
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History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we literally are criminals. I attest to this: the world is not white; it never was white, cannot be white. White is a metaphor for power, and that is simply a way of describing Chase Manhattan Bank.
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What white people have to do is try and find out in their own hearts why it was necessary to have a “nigger” in the first place, because I’m not a nigger, I’m a man. But if you think I’m a nigger, it means you need him. The question that you’ve got to ask yourself, the white population of this country has got to ask itself, North and South because it’s one country and for a Negro there is no difference between the North and the South—it’s just a difference in the way they castrate you, but the fact of the castration is the American fact….If I’m not the nigger here and you invented him, you the white people invented him, then you’ve got to find out why. And the future of the country depends on that, whether or not it is able to ask that question.
It’s not a question of what happens to the Negro here or to the black man here—that’s a very vivid question for me, you know—but the real question is what is going to happen to this country. I have to repeat that.
• Delete this highlight
Add a note
In the years in Paris, I had never been homesick for anything American— neither waffles, ice cream, hot dogs, baseball, majorettes, movies, nor the Empire State Building, nor Coney Island, nor the Statue of Liberty, nor the Daily News, nor Times Square. All of these things had passed out of me. They might never have existed, and it made absolutely no difference to me if I never saw them again. But I had missed my brothers and sisters, and my mother. They made a difference.
• Delete this highlight
Add a note
They don’t want to believe, still less to act on the belief, that what is happening in Birmingham is happening all over the country. They don’t want to realize that there is not one step, morally or actually, between Birmingham and Los Angeles.
• Delete this highlight
Add a note
I’m terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don’t think I’m human. And I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.
• Delete this highlight
Add a note
I have always been struck, in America, by an emotional poverty so bottomless, and a terror of human life, of human touch, so deep, that virtually no American appears able to achieve any viable, organic connection between his public stance and his private life.
• Delete this highlight
Add a note
What I’m trying to say to this country, to us, is that we must know this… …we must realize this, that no other country in the world has been so fat and so sleek, and so safe, and so happy, and so irresponsible, and so dead. No other country can afford to dream of a Plymouth and a wife and a house with a fence and the children growing up safely to go to college and to become executives, and then to marry and have the Plymouth and the house and so forth. A great many people do not live this way and cannot imagine it, and do not know that when we talk about “democracy,” this is what we mean.
• Delete this highlight
Add a note
To watch the TV screen for any length of time is to learn some really frightening things about the American sense of reality. We are cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly. These images are designed not to trouble, but to reassure. They also weaken our ability to deal with the world as it is, ourselves as we are.
• Delete this highlight
Add a note
All of the Western nations have been caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism; this means that their history has no moral justification, and that the West has no moral authority.
• Delete this highlight
Add a note
The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story. What can we do? Well, I am tired…. I don’t know how it will come about. I know that no matter how it comes about, it will be bloody; it will be hard. I still believe that we can do with this country something that has not been done before. We are misled here because we think of numbers. You don’t need numbers; you need passion. And this is proven by the history of the world. The tragedy is that most of the people who say they care about it do not care.
• Delete this highlight
Add a note
What they care about is their safety and their profits. The American way of life has failed— to make people happier or make them better. We do not want to admit this, and we do not admit it.
• Delete this highlight
Add a note
In this country, for a dangerously long time, there have been two levels of experience. One, to put it cruelly, can be summed up in the images of Gary Cooper and Doris Day: two of the most grotesque appeals to innocence the world has ever seen. And the other, subterranean, indispensable, and denied, can be summed up, let us say, in the tone and in the face of Ray Charles.
• Delete this highlight
Add a note
History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we literally are criminals. I attest to this: the world is not white; it never was white, cannot be white. White is a metaphor for power, and that is simply a way of describing Chase Manhattan Bank.
• Delete this highlight
Add a note
What white people have to do is try and find out in their own hearts why it was necessary to have a “nigger” in the first place, because I’m not a nigger, I’m a man. But if you think I’m a nigger, it means you need him. The question that you’ve got to ask yourself, the white population of this country has got to ask itself, North and South because it’s one country and for a Negro there is no difference between the North and the South—it’s just a difference in the way they castrate you, but the fact of the castration is the American fact….If I’m not the nigger here and you invented him, you the white people invented him, then you’ve got to find out why. And the future of the country depends on that, whether or not it is able to ask that question.
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Peck's documentary on Baldwin
Just finished the screenplay. Brilliant, which is no surprise since the language is Baldwin's. The book adds essays by Peck and the film's editor.
No more important book for our troubled times. James Baldwin is our most prophetic writer.
No more important book for our troubled times. James Baldwin is our most prophetic writer.
posted from Bloggeroid
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Super Bowl
Not much into it since my drinking days. Don't follow NFL or NBA. But no doubt I'll watch some of it.
More, hoping for a mellow day, making a little progress.
More, hoping for a mellow day, making a little progress.
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Saturday, February 4, 2017
Deep breaths
One month to go, much work, potential stress, little help from H, really must focus, plan daily chores, hire help as needed, not get overwhelmed.
Beginning today.
Beginning today.
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Friday, February 3, 2017
News
From realtor ...
the appraisal is out of final review and all is good! The value is supported and there are no conditions. Congratulations!
the appraisal is out of final review and all is good! The value is supported and there are no conditions. Congratulations!
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Masochism
Following Trump on the news. Wean myself from current affairs at R?
May have to push back move a week.
May have to push back move a week.
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Thursday, February 2, 2017
Why Portland sucks
#4 nationally in rate of gentrification.
V. 1980s, "This is how Greenwich Village used to be."
But Russellville can be a hotel anywhere, like Switzerland, Europe, Denmark. I need to get there. Soon.
V. 1980s, "This is how Greenwich Village used to be."
But Russellville can be a hotel anywhere, like Switzerland, Europe, Denmark. I need to get there. Soon.
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Trepidation II
Best case: I rent our apt at R today.
Worst case: new negotiations after low appraisal
Alt: no news today
Ah, me. They configure this process for maximum stress.
Worst case: new negotiations after low appraisal
Alt: no news today
Ah, me. They configure this process for maximum stress.
Trepidation
Sourdough has different procedure, which I haven't mastered yet.
Second loaf about to go in.
Second loaf about to go in.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Knowing
The end of my story "The Epistemoligical Uncle":
And so — as the train pulled away past the encouraging and energetic waving of my parents, leaving Judy and the carefree idyll of my youth somewhere behind in the vast stretch of harvest-ripe golden grainland, and moved forward into the wind to begin the long journey to college — I settled into my seat, closed my eyes and for the first time began to realize how little I knew and how uncertain would be the knowing yet to come; so that by the time the train announced its departure from Adam, sounding like the howling of my Uncle Buck, "Do you really knoooooooooow?," I knew I didn't know what had really happened between Judy and me, or why Uncle Buck drank, or what was waiting for me at college.
I didn't know much of anything, though I didn't yet know that this itself was knowing.
xxx
Political pundits never seem to question their certainty.
And so — as the train pulled away past the encouraging and energetic waving of my parents, leaving Judy and the carefree idyll of my youth somewhere behind in the vast stretch of harvest-ripe golden grainland, and moved forward into the wind to begin the long journey to college — I settled into my seat, closed my eyes and for the first time began to realize how little I knew and how uncertain would be the knowing yet to come; so that by the time the train announced its departure from Adam, sounding like the howling of my Uncle Buck, "Do you really knoooooooooow?," I knew I didn't know what had really happened between Judy and me, or why Uncle Buck drank, or what was waiting for me at college.
I didn't know much of anything, though I didn't yet know that this itself was knowing.
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Political pundits never seem to question their certainty.
Russellville
Has a 1 BR for us. Occupy late Feb, perfect. Waiting on appraisal report.
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News
If you look at the news from the point of view of a dramatist, it's very boring. Endless repetition. Verbs never change, only nouns. Zzzzzzz!
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Nature
She doesn't give a shit about all the political hot air driving the main, alternative and social media. She presents an equal opportunity wrath and destruction. The final irony of the gods: we are indivisible.
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Hot air
Several years ago I made a short video about how global warming is caused by human hot air. I was on to something, which is worse now.
So many self-appointed political experts, left and right, expounding on abstract issues and defining blame while an historically urgent reality, a mentally ill man in the WH, screams for immediate focus and attention.
And some lefties still defend Russia! They need to listen to Pussy Riot!
Women need to step up and harness the energy of dissent. Men need to shut up and get the fuck out of the way.
So many self-appointed political experts, left and right, expounding on abstract issues and defining blame while an historically urgent reality, a mentally ill man in the WH, screams for immediate focus and attention.
And some lefties still defend Russia! They need to listen to Pussy Riot!
Women need to step up and harness the energy of dissent. Men need to shut up and get the fuck out of the way.
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Strategy
The women's march was extraordinary because of the images in this age of media. Huge numbers, widespread. This must be replicated to keep the pressure on and force Trump to over-react, losing supporters in Congress. One hopes.
Cooking fool
Over 4 hrs into day long tomato sauce ... ribs in Korean marinade for dinner tonight or tomorrow ... second sourdough loaf tomorrow and today sourdough blueberry pancakes for breakfast.
What else can I conjure up?
What else can I conjure up?
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Pankaj Mishra
Started his THE AGE OF ANGER, early on very impressed, a cogent discussion of today's world.
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Russellville
An escape from the world, no doubt about it. Like living in a hotel in Switzerland. Write, read, play ukulele, eat at one of three options (or at home), let weekly housekeeping deal with mess, watch nightly movies that appeal to me, bake bread for strangers, hop the MAX, walk to Starbucks, play games or join groups, or hide in secluded spots inside and out ... I expect to love it. But I worry about Harriet. Hard to please. And having a bad day.
Sick at heart
Krugman writes that Trump or the Republic will be gone within the year. Sounds about right to me.
More protest + more Trump response = martial law
Seems inevitable to me. Then what? In revolutions, often what matters is which side the Army is on. I have no idea.
More protest + more Trump response = martial law
Seems inevitable to me. Then what? In revolutions, often what matters is which side the Army is on. I have no idea.
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The challenge
The anti-Trump resistance will fail if we don't ditch establishment Democrats
http://gu.com/p/5zzef?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
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And it should be led by women.
http://gu.com/p/5zzef?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
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And it should be led by women.
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Danger zone
Lessons of Holocaust being forgotten, says Prince Charles
http://gu.com/p/5pvzp?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5pvzp?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
posted from Bloggeroid
Monday, January 30, 2017
Sourdough
First try, much went wrong ... Continued to check taste ... Do better next time.
posted from Bloggeroid
The bottom line
"Precisely because the problem is one of temperament and character, it will not get better. It will get worse, as power intoxicates Trump and those around him. It will probably end in calamity—substantial domestic protest and violence, a breakdown of international economic relationships, the collapse of major alliances, or perhaps one or more new wars (even with China) on top of the ones we already have. It will not be surprising in the slightest if his term ends not in four or in eight years, but sooner, with impeachment or removal under the 25th Amendment. The sooner Americans get used to these likelihoods, the better."
http://pubx.co/xaWxJx
http://pubx.co/xaWxJx
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Good morning
The Muslim ban has brought the US close to constitutional crisis
http://gu.com/p/5zte7?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
xxx
Many, many predicted disaster from a Trump presidency. Not many this quickly -- though HRC did. Are there enough sane Republicans in Congress to deal with this before he declares martial law?
http://gu.com/p/5zte7?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
xxx
Many, many predicted disaster from a Trump presidency. Not many this quickly -- though HRC did. Are there enough sane Republicans in Congress to deal with this before he declares martial law?
posted from Bloggeroid
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Martial law
Some weeks ago I predicted T would declare martial law this summer. Alas, likely sooner than that.
Trump v. Clinton
Those progressives who saw no difference between T and C look like imbeciles now. However, there is a broad perspective in which this makes sense, and history could make it so. What this perspective ignores is present tense on the ground human suffering, as with refugees and immigrants. Some progressives get so abstract and theoretical, they become blind and deaf to the tears and cries right in front of them.
For the record, Trump. is considerably more inept and dangerous than Clinton.
Unless a new progressive coalition is led by women, I have little hope for its success.
For the record, Trump. is considerably more inept and dangerous than Clinton.
Unless a new progressive coalition is led by women, I have little hope for its success.
I am not your Negro
Upcoming documentary on James Baldwin, as good as any American writer in my lifetime. Just preordered script.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
No surprise
Trump isn't surprising me, unfortunately. He is being himself. Those, especially progressives, who saw no difference between Trump and Clinton, or who thought the office would change him, were blind to reality. There's a lot of it going around.
And Putin won't change either. Once a KGB officer ...
But his supporters continue to surprise me. And depress me.
And Putin won't change either. Once a KGB officer ...
But his supporters continue to surprise me. And depress me.
posted from Bloggeroid
A humane country
“To those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength.”
— Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on Twitter.
— Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on Twitter.
posted from Bloggeroid
Fixed!
Asked myself, what did I do differently? Had countdown titles with no post. Added post, fixed. Logic rules.
Temporary "fix"
Reduced days on start page until I figure out how to get column back, content of which is now below posts. Bummer.
Waiting game
... next 3 or 4 days, waiting for appraisal report. If cool, rent storage for H's remaining downsizing, to deal with ASAP at R, and rent a 1 BR, our new home, and begin moving boxes. Once we rent, we'll have a meal ticket, begin using it.
Knock on my wooden head - which is getting sore.
Knock on my wooden head - which is getting sore.
Friday, January 27, 2017
Spin
The progressive press, by and large, is pretty pathetic, spinning the news as egregiously as their rightwing counterparts. Give me the BBC.
posted from Bloggeroid
Observation
"That’s right: we now live in a world where overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic global warming is available but Trump declares the evidence does not exist, and a complete lack of evidence of voter fraud leaves Trump insisting voter fraud exists.
Reality hasn’t been turned upside down. It’s been twisted inside-out."
--PoliticusUSA
Reality hasn’t been turned upside down. It’s been twisted inside-out."
--PoliticusUSA
Thin souled
'Trump doesn't care about culture': how will his presidency affect the arts?
http://gu.com/p/5nk49?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5nk49?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Literary awards
I've received awards during my career, I've not, and on several occassions I've been a judge, giving awards to others. Some thoughts.
Hands down, the most satisfying awards are those I did not apply for. The others turn writers into marketers, a perversion of literature and its support.
Most awards would better support literature by being a lottery. This would remove personality and politics from the procedure.
Awards are not about writers and literature. They are about judges and personal taste.
Awards with entry fees make a bad situation worse.
The quickest, easiest way for a new arts organization to gain credibility is to give an award. A shameful reality.
Since awards are a crapshoot, respect for language and honesty would make them a literal crapshoot, that is, A LOTTERY.
Hands down, the most satisfying awards are those I did not apply for. The others turn writers into marketers, a perversion of literature and its support.
Most awards would better support literature by being a lottery. This would remove personality and politics from the procedure.
Awards are not about writers and literature. They are about judges and personal taste.
Awards with entry fees make a bad situation worse.
The quickest, easiest way for a new arts organization to gain credibility is to give an award. A shameful reality.
Since awards are a crapshoot, respect for language and honesty would make them a literal crapshoot, that is, A LOTTERY.
Sodom
Finished my novel. Salinger said an artist's only task is to aim for perfection by his own standards. By this ruler, I've done the best work I can do with this book. Can't do better.
I'll still write. A memoir of ideas long brooded. Short stories, where I began.
And one hoop to go.
I'll still write. A memoir of ideas long brooded. Short stories, where I began.
And one hoop to go.
Bigger picture
Speedy universe expansion challenges Einstein’s theory
http://gu.com/p/5nzgv?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5nzgv?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
Slow cooking, all day long
Turkey legs in oven, tomato sauce on stove. Good smells today!
posted from Bloggeroid
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
International humanity
Dutch respond to Trump's 'gag rule' with international safe abortion fund
http://gu.com/p/5nt2y?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5nt2y?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
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California rules
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/25/1624918/California-is-not-turning-back-not-now-not-ever
Sanest state in nation. I miss it, still consider it home, get teary eyed watching game in Rose Bowl and seeing San Gabriel mountains, my front door view growing up.
Sanest state in nation. I miss it, still consider it home, get teary eyed watching game in Rose Bowl and seeing San Gabriel mountains, my front door view growing up.
posted from Bloggeroid
Slow motion
Watching the political scene is like watching an impending disaster in slow motion and hoping for a last minute rescue.
posted from Bloggeroid
What I look forward to
Writing regularly again.
Practicing ukulele regularly again.
Engaging fantasy of living in a hotel.
Meeting new people.
Riding MAX (stop at doorstep) to new places.
Watching movies in Russellville theater.
Baking bread for new customers.
Explorations unknown.
Practicing ukulele regularly again.
Engaging fantasy of living in a hotel.
Meeting new people.
Riding MAX (stop at doorstep) to new places.
Watching movies in Russellville theater.
Baking bread for new customers.
Explorations unknown.
posted from Bloggeroid
Moving forward
Waiting for appraisal to be scheduled.
Received tentative closing statement. We're in better shape than I projected.
Russellville is ready for us.
This is great. Trump is horrific. Zero sum universe.
Received tentative closing statement. We're in better shape than I projected.
Russellville is ready for us.
This is great. Trump is horrific. Zero sum universe.
posted from Bloggeroid
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Fear and deep sorrow ...
... about the political climate. The arrogance of Clinton camp, taking rust belt for granted when on the ground staff were screaming she was in deep trouble, turned the election. She lost it herself.
And now we get tests of courage: who steps up against challenges that erode already damaged parameters of free speech, equality and choice?
And what about the conflict between the hidden tyranny of corporate power and the visible tyranny of a mentally ill con man? Some say the former will use him - and dump him. We'll see.
Come on, Russellville!
And now we get tests of courage: who steps up against challenges that erode already damaged parameters of free speech, equality and choice?
And what about the conflict between the hidden tyranny of corporate power and the visible tyranny of a mentally ill con man? Some say the former will use him - and dump him. We'll see.
Come on, Russellville!
posted from Bloggeroid
A predictable direction/disaster
Resurrection of Keystone and DAPL cements America's climate antagonism
http://gu.com/p/5nbyf?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
xxx
How much will it take before Hillary-hating progressives realize Trump is far, far worse? Will they belatedly work to stop him?
http://gu.com/p/5nbyf?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
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How much will it take before Hillary-hating progressives realize Trump is far, far worse? Will they belatedly work to stop him?
Reality
Two shocks rattling in my brain: a mad man in the WH; and we actually sold the house. Feb 27 should be first night sleeping at Russellville.
A good place to disappear!
A good place to disappear!
"I prefer not to."
Herman Melville's Bartleby and the steely strength of mild rebellion
http://gu.com/p/5j239?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
http://gu.com/p/5j239?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Bloggeroid
Monday, January 23, 2017
Wooden head
Knock, knock! Reached post inspection agreement on house sale! Leaves only appraisal to screw it up. Looking damn good.
Orwellian
CBS News confirmed reports that President Donald Trump brought a studio audience to his visit with the CIA on Saturday. The news agency reports that an official said the visit left a wake of “unease,” “made relations with the intelligence community worse,” and was “uncomfortable.”
xxx
Progressives who disregarded or under-estimated the danger of Trump hopefully now are resisting this sick madman. They did NOT give T the election but their energy is needed now. This is an historic crisis and we've just begun.
xxx
Progressives who disregarded or under-estimated the danger of Trump hopefully now are resisting this sick madman. They did NOT give T the election but their energy is needed now. This is an historic crisis and we've just begun.
posted from Bloggeroid
Cheddar bread
Earlier cheese breads just ok but this is really good. First with artisan flour using la cloche.
posted from Bloggeroid
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