The remedy to this is two-fold:

That’s the con that the gop pulled on the voters, that Mr. Trump is somehow more toxic than anyone else that they ran with.

Brownshirts would have been more appropriate.

May they return to form better than Berkeley Breathed did with his defanged and unfunny Bloom County resurrection.

There’s all sorts of whackadoodle things that could happen. I heard piece on NPR about ten days ago about someone in the GOP who wants to enact a guaranteed minimum income for everyone. 1k / month and $300 / mo for health insurance (I know, what world do they live in) In return, say goodbye to medicare, medicaid,…

I heard Paul Ryan on Wisconsin Public Radio two days ago gleefully talking about how the GOP gets to achieve everything that they’re dreamed of for years. The Great Society and New Deal - kiss it all goodbye.

Neo-liberalism all of a sudden doesn’t look so bad (objects in rear view mirror are more distant than they appear).

Bootstrapping and personal responsibility are words you’re going to be hearing a lot real soon.

There was a movie made of it around 1990. I had not heard of the book at the time and I went to see it because I am a huge fan of Ryuichi Sakamoto, who did the soundtrack for it. The movie is quite good, you may want to check it out while you wait for the Netflix series.

There’s actually a lot to be said for free range children.

This Christmas were thought that we were done shopping for our 5 year old son and, you know, still have a few dollars and feeling a little spendy going into the holidays and while we’re whispering back and forth and pitching ideas to each other he out of the blue says “I want a Lego school”

Years ago a mashup artist named Clive$ter put that into a blender with Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy and The Message by Grandmaster Flash. The resulting 8 minute mashup (and video) were pure gold. I’d link you up but you can’t find everything on line anymore, really glad that I snagged it when I could.

Frank Herbert, when speaking about the creation of his Dune books, cited a feeling that there comes a time where there the people are looking for a charismatic leader to fill a power vortex, and that those are very dangerous times indeed because charismatic leaders don’t always make good or effective elected officials…

Sounds like Wisconsin after Scott Walker. If you want to see where the county is headed look at his first term and garnish with undoing anything from the New Deal and the Great Society and you pretty much have it.

Serenade him with jazz covers of the Dead Kennedy’s library.

Carrie Fisher channeling Hunter S. Thompson.

Little heard of UK band, their best albums were produced by Thomas “She Blinded Me With Science” Dolby. Start with Steve McQueen (Two Wheels Good in the US) and explore from there.

Nope - Paddy McAloon.

Which makes her marriage to the Coldplay dude make sense as they are on my continuum of passive aggressive pop music (Billy Joel, Phil Collins and then Coldplay).

I think that you hit on one part of white culture and this thinking that one’s family tree somehow makes you white when we’re all a bunch of mutts. Nancy Isenberg’s recent book on class in the US has a lot of examples of how this has played out for essentially rich whites to disenfranchise every one else, other white…