Have I ever experienced such a quiet Christmas Eve?  Ah, yes, in 2002.  I deliberately spent Christmas Eve by myself, in my studio apartment in SW DC, because my father had died a month before, and for the first time in my life I was an orphan.  I deliberately chose not to travel for Christmas.  For all of my life I'd spent Christmas Eve with one ( Read more... )

TEXAS V. PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL.
The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections.

The betting markets expected a 3.6% chance of the Supreme Court ( Read more... )

I feel deep ecology is one of those things, once you see it, you cannot unsee it,

it's the fault of all the things, all my curiosities, all the books, all the podcasts, all the Internets, everything in my past spinning into now, these 53 years, these 6^e11 seconds,

the library inside my head folding upon itself, recursive intelligence, the unhappy ( Read more... )

The Electoral College was decided by about 78,000 votes in Trump's surprise win of 2016 ( Read more... )

I've always been intrigued by NaNoWriMo. I've always enjoyed creative writing, with no concern about whether it would "sell" or not, but it looks like I needed this Pandemic Quarantine to get through the entire month, though I'm only 2/3 of the way now, but ... having never made it this far, I'm realizing: Wait, I have to figure out how to end this ( Read more... )

One of the attorneys who works for me had to abruptly depart for Europe because her father is dying of COVID-19, back in her country of origin.  She told me over the phone as she was packing her bags, "This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me, Bug."

Her father was in the hospital with pneumonia, and had stopped eating.  I couldn't say ( Read more... )

It wasn't my obsessive modeling of the outcome, it was that the rest of you didn't believe me.

Shared Reality has arrived.

:-)

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We are sending empathy and dignity to the White House, after a horrible four years with neither.

Biden Edges Closer to Victory (NYT ( Read more... )

Not many of my friends and family are as confident as I am about Biden winning, so I feel like I'm living in a house where I'm the only person who can see that the horrible monster outside is gone, and that we're free, and that it is OK to celebrate, to go outside, and to cry tears of relief.  I cried such tears of relief this morning when I heard ( Read more... )