Friends, here are my two beloved cats, Clary (the tortoise) and Snuffy (aka Ian, all golden) photo taken by Laura yesterday before she and Izzy and two friends went to the Kennedy Center to see Hamilton.  Those volumes to the sides are a stack of printed Persuasions; and of course a dictionary (no room without its dictionary); they sitting in my ( Read more... )

In an interview segment following a series of film revealing Trump surrounded by his appointed teams and republicans who support him unqualifiedly or at rallies, or with foreign gov't officials, telling all sorts of lies, citing some of his tweets, Judy Woodruff hosted a talk between three people who talked of what this means: an assault on common ( Read more... )

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For today gentle reader I will have myself to post a brief essay in response to an immediate political situation since I have seen no one willing to answer this question, to which I add Leonard Cohen's Democracy is Coming to the USA below

There is apparently as seen in Trump a visceral harsh reaction people have against these black men kneeling ( Read more... )

"The quietness of it does me good" -- Jane Austen, May 2, 1813, to Cassandra


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One day late:

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/7/11/activists_plan_mass_day_of_actionBut here I am now ( Read more... )

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One of the last public statements Michelle Obama made was how we all need hope; on this day when so many deaths (bombs, drones, executions) have been happening everywhere and health care and our US pension system, is threatened, millions of decent good people marched on behalf of the extraordinary good that science has done for life on earth, and ( Read more... )

I've decided to change the nature and content of this blog again -- until such time as I think there is something hopeful to post about again in the public political world of human beings.  I am not sure what direction I'm going to take it in, but for a start I thought each Saturday would be a Caturday, where I would post not just about cats but ( Read more... )

From Paradise Lost:

Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe


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