You are an inspiration! I don’t think I could fly WOW, though, because my fave souvenir is reuseable shopping bags from stores in other countries. And they don’t take up much room, but they probably wouldn’t fit in a bag that tight...

I don’t think I could ever do that job. And I know we don’t pay people well, either. Wow, that is an amazing list.

So, people from these towns, would you say the list is a bit hipster heavy? Because that’s what I thought for the American grouping on my city. Just curious. (Portland, you’re excused, for obvious reasons...)

I was always told that at 20 you have the face you were born with. At 40 you have the face you deserve. I would say it’s actually 50.

I love you. I am making a little shrine to you in my cube today and no one’s going to stop me.

I refuse to feel sorry for SHS. But I almost do? I have noticed since she got this job that she has picked up her game in terms of style—in the rare on-camera briefings her clothes are more flattering than they were originally. I assume that has something to do with learning what works for you on camera and making…

As you should be. Dear God.

When things disproportionately affect people of color I either have to accept that racism is playing a role OR I have to say that people of color are somehow different in this particular area than white people. I don’t believe that women of color are worse parents than white women, so therefore I believe racism plays…

Great point. When kids are removed from families they don’t need to be removed from, when parents are monitored who shouldn’t be monitored, when all that happens, other kids are falling through the cracks.

I have that story in my “Read and be depressed pile”. It reinforces things I’ve been told over the years so I don’t doubt any of this.

Jesus! That’s a sweet, sweet timeline you got right there...

The whole thing was messy, that’s all I know.

I don’t have AC either, she muttered. Mostly I’m ok—last week it was down t0 the 60s at night. Tonight might be bad, hot and humid, but it’s supposed to turn soon. I have a post-apocolyptic mindset from the rolling blackouts in the 1990s when I learned you can’t count on electricity for fans or AC so I inurred myself…

Ford pre-pardoned Nixon and I don’t remember how it played out. But Nixon hadn’t been impeached (he resigned first). Maybe America was (as Ford posited) sick of it already and so everyone just let it stand, even if it wasn’t legal. But I remember he pro-actively pardoned him in some way. Lawyers would know, and know…

It’s funny! Because you know he’s already asked...

Oh, these tides will turn back and forth, probably for more than a year. We will lose more stature in the world as a country, but we can’t care about that. Because it’s either Trump and his ilk running the country forever or a gradual move back toward a more just society. But this is just the beginning. You have to…

Yawn.

He’s grieving. Everything he thought was going to be better is actually (somehow) turning worse. The only true villain in his life is Hillary, so you know that’s where he’s got to take it. He’ll work through it. Poor guy, he probably hasn’t slept in a week.

You are angry. It’s ok. This is one of those five stages of grief as you grapple with the fact that the boogeypeople you have been sold (the Clintons) are just people you disagree with. And the hero you followed (Trump) has feet of clay. And all you have is a red hat from China. I get it. We’ve all been there or a…

Remember, as things unravel people (even Presidents) get desperate. Some of Nixon’s guys went to jail, and that was for obstruction. Nixon, of course, did not. Because Ford pre-pardoned him. I can’t recall, did Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell go to jail? Seems like he did, but I’m now uncertain. Of course,…