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Just a quick note while I’m at work to say thanks for joining!  Look around — most folks here are on US time, but there a re a few tucked into odd corners of the world.  There’s a chat thing which you can now access — it’s really bare-bones, and you can’t even see who is on — it literally *just* does chats.

Privacy here is respected but not enforced — that is, it’s the internet — nothing is ever truly offline once it’s online.  Just the same, I put out a good faith effort to keep things tidy.  Any poor hygiene is at least not intentional :-)

Introduce yourself!  As much or as little as you choose to share.

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Quick asterisk here to point out a site and author who comes highly recommended.

The Libertarian Enterprise

I wonder what the Democrats are saying about Donald Trump  Hmm.  Let’s ask Mona Charen. 

Fifty dead and counting in Vegas massacre.  It’s not just that the count goes on.  People are still dying of their wounds.

Some things are absolute, and some things are relative.  Absolute is the fact that this animal deserves Hell, whether one exists or not.  More nuanced is the approach the media will take.  The wager of the decade is live now in Las Vegas — place your bets! — as democrats wait and see whether they should condemn the shooting and the shooter, or explain away the behavior as the predictable result of some disenfranchisement.  Depraved because a deprived.  My money’s on red.

Some of you may have noticed a marked improvement in the quality and quantity of posts and phone calls around here.  Well, I’ve been busy.  But I wrote next month’s schedule, and I’ll be available during decent hours once more.  So the usual slipshod standards will return, and things will feel a bit more like home around here.  Like somebody else’s home.  With dirty laundry on the sofa.

I wrote this in a Facebook Post (the still-hidden Ball Diamond Ball FB group) when it was clear that we had lost in 2012.  I felt then, and had said several times, that an Obama re-election would be a point of no return for the country.  I still believe that it is true — we will never recover the Constitutional functioning of our Republic — all that is left is to muddle forward and find a way to re-instill some small portion of what has been lost.  We are in the business of defensive fortifications, which is never a good place to be.  We have been Fundamentally Transformed, as promised, as voted, as delivered.

Upon Obama’s re-election, I developed chest pains and began having anxiety attacks any time … Continue reading →

The President is right to knock those who disparage our anthem or flag.  The so-called sports protests are not protests about sports, but about America.  The only role of sports in the protest is to give a bunch of un-educated ball hustlers a national microphone with which to attack the nation.

Trump has a duty to make the argument, to express his thorough disapproval of these actions, and to urge sanctions against those who make millions in a country they cannot abide.  The people who run the NFL in particular, and a bunch of other outlets, had a magnificent chance to defend this country when under attack from within — they did not.

Don’t tell me how you support the troops, NFL.  Your cutesy rah-rah spots on the … Continue reading →

I wonder how much of the disorientation aspect of PTSD is the result of the packaged habit behavior delegated to the basal ganglia being wiped out in an environment which does not reinforce it?
Veterans returning from the war will become overwhelmed at having too many choices of peanut butter. They can just about forget how to walk in a crowd of people whose recognition signs [Hello, I am a person — I see and acknowledge that you are a person as well] are all different from his. He is not a person and gets his ass kicked by peanut butter.
The internal autopilot that drives you to work in the morning is the result of habits. The human brain packages groups of related actions into … Continue reading →

A note by any other name
I know might read more sweet
Perhaps the sun will never shine
Upon my field of wheat

As related in the Politico, the GOP just got itself Trumped:

On Wednesday morning, Ryan called the deal floated by Democrats to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling through mid-December as part of a relief package for Hurricane Harvey victims “disgraceful.” Expecting cover from Trump on their insistence to extend the debt ceiling much longer, Ryan and McConnell instead were abandoned.

Long story short: Republicans wanted to extend the debt ceiling for a very long time.  Democrats wanted eighteen months.  Both sides wanted to pair this with Harvey relief cash.  Trump went to the Democrats and got a deal for … Continue reading →