Pankaj Mishra

Started his THE AGE OF ANGER, early on very impressed, a cogent discussion of today's world.

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Yard sign

The good life

Listening to jazz, counting my blessings.

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.

Grief

Like watching an ice cube melt.

And then the house, waiting, waiting.

Not the best of times.

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.

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Self-reliance

Expect to make my own breakfast at R. Can't top it.

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The challenge

The anti-Trump resistance will fail if we don't ditch establishment Democrats

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xxx

And it should be led by women.

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Danger zone

Lessons of Holocaust being forgotten, says Prince Charles

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27 days

Hoping to get there before martial law. I'm serious.

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Sourdough

First try, much went wrong ... Continued to check taste ... Do better next time.

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Light rye

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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."


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Good morning

The Muslim ban has brought the US close to constitutional crisis

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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?

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28 days

... if all goes well.

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Sunday story hour

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Sad times

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.

I am not your Negro

Upcoming documentary on James Baldwin, as good as any American writer in my lifetime. Just preordered script.