Author: Claire
1. The Patrick Henry Society is no more. It was lost in a tragic hosting accident (and I think its founder wasn’t all that sorry to see it go). But Kit Perez has started again with RecoveringStatist.com. Not much there yet. But plan a return visit; knowing Kit it’ll soon be loaded with provocative and useful info. 2. There’s a new poll at The Zelman Partisans. It asks your views and plans now that Donald Trump is president-elect. And invites further comment about how (or if) you think a Trump presidency will change the nation, your state, or your local…
So. The idea came up yesterday of having the ability to upvote blog comments. Many times, after someone’s posted a particularly informative and well-researched comment — or a particularly pithy one — I’ve longed for the upvote button, only to be left with itchy fingers and no way of casting that vote. Turns out though, according to He Who Fakes It Well, that the upvote ability (upvotability?) is already built into one of our WordPress plugins and needs only be activated. The question is now: do you want it? If you say you do, it’s a simple matter of a…
The evening before election day, Ava and I walked down to the estuary, sat on a pier, and watched the fishing boats come in. The sky was cloud-studded but dry, the weather shirt-sleeve warm. The light resembled a luminist painting. The morning of election day, we walked down and watched the boats go out again under the same low, dry, radiant sky, while sharing a buttery croissant from the local tea shop. I thought, not for the first or last time, “It doesn’t matter whose butt gets planted in the Oval Office. This doesn’t change. This is my place and…
No, that definitely did not go well. I awoke from a general anesthetic Thursday morning to discover that they hadn’t performed the minor surgery I’d signed on for. Beyond my skills, the surgeon told me shortly. I didn’t see a sign of how bad it was until I was poking around in there. Really. So sorry. Don’t worry. This isn’t a case of “We’re sewing you shut and sending you home to die.” More like “We’re referring you to some specialist you can’t afford even with insurance and if said specialist slips up you’ll have major quality of life issues…