Can we stop criticizing Mitt for going for SOS? He’s sane, competent, and qualified-qualities sorely lacking in most of Trump’s cabinet picks. Also, he’s at least somewhat willing to criticize Trump, at least enough to completely unhinge Kelly Anne. I take that as a good sign.

Damn, you weren’t kidding

P.S. I am from central Texas, which means we drove through Waco every time we went to Dallas. The only thing I love about that town is that BEAUTIFUL collection of fast food restaurants directly across the interstate from Baylor. They had everything a hungry driver could ever want.

If I were Melania my condition would be that I didn’t have to be in the room.

I’ve also basically disengaged aside from a ten minute dipping-in-of-the-toe a day. I’ve taken to reading a lot of fiction, or highly technical articles related to some of my hobbies. Oh! I’ve also gotten back into painting. I guess my point is: there is a world elsewhere. Take care of yourself.

This article sums it up pretty well:

Please don’t. I’m fully in the middle of ‘millennial’ and that hokey garbage came yeeeears after I was a child.

I’ve actually been thinking about this recently. I wrote a paper for my Holocaust studies class on the generational effect of the Holocaust. I don’t have the paper in front of me right now, but it went something like this:

By “old” I mean “is widely mentioned in 60s and 70s anthropology books” not “dug up with the Rosetta stone”.

When a party wins the presidential election by over 2 million votes and they still don’t get to take office, and have to defer to the rule and shitty policies of a minority party due to fucked up gerrmandering and an excess of unpopulated states having way too much fucking power, I can see why people in America are…

Bless you for what you’ve done. Its too bad that many people don’t want to do good works and just rely on belief that their fantasy sky god will take care of them no matter how much hate is in their hearts.

Millennials... didn’t vote for him, though.

I spent ten years of my life doing activist work nearly full-time. I don’t blame people for not bothering because all of that time was essentially wasted. Every positive thing I fought for didn’t work because the people in power, supported by most of the population, chose the self-centered and short-sighted option. I…

This! We can’t save the world if the idiots who messed it up are still kicking/messing it up further.

The systems of power have been colluding for decades to benefit seniority and the rich at the expense of the young and the poor. Of course young people are going to be pissed about it.

I haven’t been able to engage with the news since the election. My best friends buried their twin babies four days before the election, and that grief got all tangled up in the grief over what the fuck was happening to the nation, and then my brain short-circuited on it. So, now any mention of the election, or Trump,…

I posted a piece on social media a few weeks ago about millennials in Portland, ME who are taking classes at craft breweries about how to manage their money. The piece included this quote: “This is hip. I am going to cool bars I would go to anyway.” I treated the piece with disdain, including a “damned millennials and…

So... you might be the problem?

It’s long been a theory that fascism (or one of its authoritarian siblings) rises every 3 generations, when those with direct contact with the horror die out, and there’s no-one to recognise the warning signs.