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Month: March 2018
She didn’t learn from “basket of deplorables.” She didn’t learn from losing a freaking election for which she was supposedly already coronated. Now … “If you look at the map of the United States, there’s all that red in the middle where Trump won,” Clinton said. “I win the coast, I win, you know, Illinois and Minnesota, places like that.” Clinton suggested that the portion of the US she won represents portions of the country that are thriving economically. “But what the map doesn’t show you, is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product,”…
Dog and book days I was deadlining late this week, aiming to get an almost-complete version of the “basics of resistance” book (co-authored with Kit Perez) to reality-checkers. Ava did not approve of all this focus-not-on-her. The beloved little diva was driving me nutz. So even though March is supposed to be my frugalista month, off Ava went to Furrydoc’s Dogotel. I hit my self-imposed deadline a day early. The timeout was glorious — except on the day it rained and I kept thinking, “Oh, I’d better bring Ava in from outside.” Then I’d remember. I’m dogless. —– One of…
And finally something from NPR that doesn’t revolve around victim disarmament or DACA. Want some realistic disaster fiction? Particularly you neighbors here in the Pacific Northwest who await The Big One? Yesterday afternoon a local NPR affiliate, KNKX, reported that the Bellingham Herald commissioned a novella about surviving the inevitable megaquake. The Riverstyx Foundation in Bellingham conceived and funded the “Imagining the Big One’” project at the instigation of its president, businessman Jim Swift. Foundation director Heather Flaherty said they were concerned by lack of preparedness and wanted a novel way to engage people. “It seems like the facts are…
My Internet went out for a few hours this morning. The sudden loss left me contemplating the last article I read online before I was cut off from all traces of civilization. Although actually, if the article I read in any way represented normal civilization, we’re better off without it. No, the article wasn’t about war or degredation. It wasn’t about #metooing or the latest pecksniffian effort to cut off somebody else’s free speech. Not about politics, brutality, or corruption (but I repeat myself). In fact, it was meant to be a feelgood story. You may have heard of the…