{"id":42368,"date":"2020-02-05T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T19:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=42368"},"modified":"2020-02-05T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T19:13:58","slug":"from-the-wonders-not-ceasing-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/05\/from-the-wonders-not-ceasing-department\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Wonders Not Ceasing Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please forgive this post if it is misspelled, ungrammatical, or incoherent. I had surgery a few days ago. Minor. But painful. The medicated aftermath has left me as fog-brained and useless as the Iowa Democratic Party.<\/em> <\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

I received a Patreon payout this morning and (for the second month in a row) was astounded to see that your contributions have not gone down<\/em>. At least one donor even increased<\/em> his monthly gift.<\/p>\n

I announced \u201cI\u2019m Done\u201d nearly two months ago and you\u2019re still sending me money. Aside from the Patreonage, I\u2019ve received several hundred dollars in donations by snail or PayPal. <\/p>\n

If all this is for the hosting\/domain registration fees to keep this and its sister site<\/a> online, I assure you you\u2019ve already got that covered. We\u2019re good for several years of hosting, at least. You can stop now.<\/p>\n

But your consistent generosity moves me greatly \u2013 and makes me wonder if you\u2019re trying to bribe<\/del> encourage me to return to blogging.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a nice thought. I felt utterly done for\/by\/to in December. And there\u2019s still a fine sense of liberation in not having to face the blank page every day or two. Yet at the same time, I miss it. I miss you.<\/p>\n

My brain felt (in the immortal words of Bilbo Baggins) \u201cthin \u2026 stretched \u2026 like butter scraped over too much bread\u201d by the end of last year. Then (naturally) as soon as I quit blogging, I began finding little memes I\u2019d love to post or articles for which I had the perfect snarky comment. I found myself craving Commentariat wit and wisdom. <\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t been quite well (but not quite sick, either) since Christmas week, and though it\u2019s been a drag, unwellness has given me time to read and think about many bloggable things. Oh, how many times I came this<\/em> close to hitting the keyboard!<\/p>\n

Then along came Monday night and the Great Dumbocrat Debacle. <\/p>\n

I mean, what can you say? A caucus process as old and familiar as politics itself. A national organization that fancies itself capable of running the entire country through technocratic management. A machine that\u2019s had years to get ready to perform its crucial role. A state party that\u2019s known fully what\u2019s expected of it; a national overseer whose job is to ensure and impress with its competency. A political organization that has only one job to do<\/em> in all the world.<\/p>\n

And they conduct an electoral event that goes completely Third World while the entire First World watches in gobsmacked awe. AND they conduct this monumental, multi-layered, Keystone-coppish, Marx-Brotheresque hilarously unintended comedy show \u2026 courtesy of a secret, untested app designed by former members of Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign staff. Hillary Clinton\u2019s staff!<\/em><\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t make it up. You simply could not make that whole business up if you sat down to write a Hollywood farce while under the influence of several dubious street-quality hallucinogenic substances, a complete lack of talent, and gallons of cheap wine.<\/p>\n

And there I lay, opium-dimmed, slugabed, and without a blog to to cry and laugh to.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Yes, if you actually are hoping to bribe me to come back, you\u2019re tempting me in a real weak spot.<\/p>\n

OTOH, if you really are just kindly covering hosting fees, you can consider your job very nicely and generously done.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Also, if I owe you a personal thank you (and this means you, AG and PT, among others) and you haven\u2019t heard from me, that could be because I never recovered all my addresses and many of my logins after the Great Computer Crash of Ought-Nineteen. Yeah, I\u2019m a bad correspondent in the best of times. This time my excuse is better than usual, but even through that\u2019s true, my conscience still pricks me, penetrating a prescription haze that\u2019s thicker than an Iowa Democrat\u2019s misperception of reality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please forgive this post if it is misspelled, ungrammatical, or incoherent. I had surgery a few days ago. Minor. But painful. The medicated aftermath has left me as fog-brained and useless as the Iowa Democratic Party. —– I received a Patreon payout this morning and (for the second month in a row) was astounded to see that your contributions have not gone down. At least one donor even increased his monthly gift. I announced \u201cI\u2019m Done\u201d nearly two months ago and you\u2019re still sending me money. Aside from the Patreonage, I\u2019ve received several hundred dollars in donations by snail or…<\/p>\n

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