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“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
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The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
BY WALLACE STEVENS
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Black Burgers Matter
Just found out about this amazing new restaurant called “Amplifying Black Voices” where you can buy non-racist hamburgers and anti-fascist milkshakes. pic.twitter.com/0JA1mELnYg
— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 1, 2020
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New Wood Pile!
http://www.woodpilereport.com/
Thanks for the Woodpile link, Ghost. He links to an article there that may well be the most sane piece of writing about the Covid situation that I’ve yet see:
Inside The Hospitals & Why The Lockdown?
Talking about hospitals, I’ve been in two different ones this past week plus a doctor’s office in between (daughter choose an interesting time to break her arm). Ghost towns, everybody masked, nary a cough or sniffle to be heard anywhere. Weirdly, it’s not such a bad time to be hurt since there’s not much waiting going on, and the staff in all places have been great. The one we were at today supposedly had
a few covid patients somewhere, but nowhere near where we were. One more anecdote, from an area in SoCal that’s supposedly had a lot of cases.
Armstrong Economics has penned a letter to the President. This is very good. Three pages in length. Mailed April 13th to Trump, Powell, Mnuchin, McConnell, Scalise and a few others. These are surreal and dangerous times. To express even slight skepticism of the the full trajectory of this shut down, I receive scorn and revulsion from family, friends and neighbors. Sorry, there just ain’t enough dead lately to justify the dismantling of civilization. Whoops… I said it again.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/opinion/letter-to-president-trump-send-it-everywhere-you-can/
Chance of a shower? 100% for me (in the bathroom)!