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GOP's War on American People: Death Panels Edition
The GOP is determined to destroy the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, and Planned Parenthood, as part of dismantling the "social safety net" that replaced the robber-baron attitudes of the 19th and early 20th century. It does not matter to the GOP Congressional members that the same social safety net benefitted their families and themselves since the ( Read more... ) -
Because They Can
The federal week in review:
1. Pres-Elect fires all Ambassadors and Special Envoys, ordering them out by inauguration day.
2. House brings back the Holman rule allowing them to reduce an individual civil service, SES positions, or political appointee's salary to $1, effectively firing them by amendment to any piece of legislation. We now know why ( Read more... ) -
Why Absence Isn't Making My Heart Grow Fonder
I have many things I'd like to write and post here. However, I'm physically limited these days in how many words I can write. I have a novel to finish, a long official report to compile, and deadlines on both. I also have to show up on my own current-project blog because it's only three months until Book Day for COLD WELCOME, and make at least ( Read more... ) -
Publisher Decisions and Boycott Fallout
So today the news came out that Simon and Schuster, a formerly independent major publisher now owned by CBS, has offered a $250,000 advance to Milo Yiannopoulos for his book on himself. This is not a person I admire. The thought of his getting a book contract doesn't please me, and the thought of his getting an advance so much higher than I've ( Read more... ) -
Making Do
There's another name for this now, but when I was growing up, my mother could make useful things (and did) out of all sorts of stuff. Nothing was thrown away (it might be given away) as long as it had any use in it. She made end tables out of apple boxes, painted them so they were bright an attractive. She had other furniture, but mostly she ( Read more... ) -
Unfamiliar Butterfly (Common Mestra)
Today I noticed an unfamilar small butterfly--quite a few of them in fact--flying low above the grass and occasionally perching with wings folded (more rarely, with wings open briefly.) From a distance (and with my eyesight!) they appeared to be cream and orange. When photographed (and the photographs put into the computer) the dorsal side of ( Read more... ) -
Test of Formatting.
This is a test of LiveJournal's formatting of text, since some of the text in the previous post was not formatted correctly, although it looked good in the editing pane. There's not an easy "word wrap" fix in LJ, so there's no apparent way to fix a post that doesn't handle word wrap on its own. This amount of text should wrap into the usual space ( Read more... ) -
The obligatory sock post...
This is a short obligatory sock post between political posts. Here is a sock (not a pair yet, you'll notice) that combined three different yarns from three different manufacturers. It is, though you can't tell it from this picture, the left sock of the pair:
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"Sounds like you want to see white guys killed..."
...said one guy on Twitter after I said white guys breaking the law should be shot at the same rate, and for the same reasons as black/brown guys were ( Read more... )
