Unusual to see a writer you like being quoted in the papers about current events. Check this out ( Read more... )

So, yeah, I'm watching a little TV, here in central eastern FL -- and Rachel Maddow is on, saying that the main newspaper of Orlando (80 miles from here), the Sentinal, has gone on record NOT endorsing Donald J.Trumpsky in 2020 ( Read more... )

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-invitation-to-impeach-in-mueller-ese/2019/05/29/5ba07690-8244-11e9-bce7-40b4105f7ca0_story.htmlRead more... )

An Aussie doctor, Lisa Pryor, wrote an op-ed in today's NYTimes, very sad for what Trumpsky has been up to ( Read more... )

James Fallows, senior editor at The Atlantic magazine, has started an all-out attack on Trumpsky. (Not in so many words, but evidently because opinion polling now shows the LYING demagogue in the fucking LEAD! Other important commentators also have "taken off the boxing gloves" -- afraid the country seems to be slipping into all-out catastrophe ( Read more... )

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/12/the-beheading-of-a-9-year-old-girl-prompted-huge-protests-in-afghanistan/?tid= ( Read more... )

http://ultradevi.tumblr.com/post/133864326757/justine-for-my-friend-peaches-i-suppose-shes (the rest of my Tumblr caption: "... she's being a brat. And we all know what happens to brats ( Read more... )

I commented on a new LJ friend's blog -- which is much populated with her cats and dogs. Part of it was a recollection of a dog we knew in Brazil. Thought you lovely readers might like to see it ( Read more... )

The "Politico" Website reports as of 4:00 this afternoon the Senate will vote to send a bill ending the budget/debt-ceiling impasse to the House. The sense I get is that the House Republican "leadership" (actually, the "being-led-ship") has given up its pathetic efforts. The "tea party" is pissed. Stock markets have already rebounded on the news ( Read more... )

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