that’s just it, isn’t it? I work with a very toxic person and am usually the only person speaking up in the room, but I’m not sure my situation—faculty rights vs. the overreach of administration—is something I can “win” or if it’s in the league of saving people’s lives.

I’m not saying I would blame/fault someone for stepping out of such a position, but Fauci is a hero—a person who makes sacrifices for the greater good, which does make him greater/better.

I am hearing “silly russian” as the “silly rabbit, trix are for kids” commercial.

Well put.

Do we really think that Fauci doesn’t recognize that Trump is a selfish and dangerous fool?

I ordered a copy from Powell’s Book store! Should be here soon.

LOL. “bless their hearts.” My grandma said that when she was being slyly insulting:)

Wow.  that is really sweet. 

cats can be coldly impersonal & indifferent, just like bears.

Good luck, Clover.  I’ve appreciated your writing and your insight.

I love that scene.

Perfect if you want your faith in happy endings ruined

I have never heard of this!

The Scapegoat is disturbing in all the right ways:)

I rather enjoyed the 1999 Mansfield Park, I just had to pretend it had a different title. Because it sure as hell wasn’t Mansfield Park.

This is why the Carol Burnett parody was so sweet--it’s played as if our unnamed narrator is a Baby-Jane-ish character licking lollipops and skipping rope.

thanks.  I’m from the dakotas/mn, btw.  I have a lot of speech patterns and dialectical quirks that haven’t fit in on either coast. 

Well, the original gives us a somewhat happy ending (Maxim didn’t kill his wife!) while the book does not (he did kill her, and the unnamed narrator is either okay with him being a murderer or is making the best of things and keeps living with the murderer). Doesn’t sound like the remake is going to venture into du Mau…

Lots wrong with many people commenting on Youtube.

No, I don’t think so—I appreciate that you gently called me out on what’s probably something okay to use in-group (my hick family/community can refer to ourselves by the passel), but maybe not so good as an outsider.