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When I poked the Hillbot hornet's nest

I'm going to post this on Orange State just to get a reaction.

One thing all liberals can agree on is that the Syrian Kurds are the good guys, and the jihadist terrorists in Syria are the bad guys.
So when Turkey and their jihadist allies launched a full-scale assault on our Syrian Kurdish allies, you would think that Washington would be outraged.

DoE Secretary in West Virginia

Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. answered reporter's questions yesterday during a trip to Charleston, WV.

The Gazette-Mail asked him how serious the Education Department would be in denying the funding for school systems that deny transgender students access — if the guidance King’s department has issued, based on its legal interpretations, ultimately survives a Texas federal judge’s nationwide, preliminary injunction blocking it.

So Much to Say

I know this is really just preaching to the choir but I just need to share this because I can say here what I cannot say at GOS or FB.

I will never vote for Hillary. No one could pay me enough to do it. There is no carrot that she and her crew could possibly hold out that would get me to follow and no stick painful enough to goad me into it.

Coney Island

everybody's sayin' that
hell's the hippest way to go
well i don't think so
gonna take a look around it though

—Joni Mitchell

In describing the arc of blue-shell2.jpgher songwriting, Joni Mitchell not so long ago said:

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems—looking for love in all the wrong places—while the next five are basically about being in your 30s. Things start losing their profundity; in middle-late age, you enter a tragedian period, realizing that the human animal isn't changing for the better.

I don't know: maybe there's something wrong with me. Because though I guess I too am moving through middle-late age, I think better of people, places, and things, than I did when I was younger.

When I was younger, I thought that, though the world seemed to be controlled by Hairballs, it—the world, that is—would all become right, in my lifetime. And I, meanwhile, had a tendency, to become distraught, at every signal, that it might not.

Now, I just don't get distraught, any more. Because, I know, that that won't happen—all becoming all right, in my lifetime. But I also know, now, better, what life was like, for those who came before, as compared to what it is like, for those, who are here now. Because I have been afforded, the luxury, of traveling widely, in space and time, through history.

And I see movement. I see an arc. I see that it is long, so very long, but I see that nonetheless it indeed bends that way, towards all becoming all right. Someday.

Not, in my lifetime, of course.

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