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Do I stay or do I go….

Trying to find decent local print journalism is nearly impossible in many markets as hedge funders are buying troubled newspapers right and left. Take a look at markets like Chicago and even Detroit. Tell me the Detroit papers are good for anything besides wrapping food scraps. Or the SunTimes and Tribune are truly viable papers anymore. The same for local TV. With companies like Saint Clair taking over many markets…..

The defense is off to a great start in Charlottesville for the Unite The Right trial

One would assume the top priorities would be education and making money…

I came upon this list for Advanced American Studies. How many books on this list do the current crop of Dingleberries want banned… https://www.uni-due.de/amerikanistik/basic_reading_list.php John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630). Anne Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book” (1650). Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (1773). * Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography (1771-90, 1868). Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence” (1776). Washington Irving, “Rip van Winkle” (1819). Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845). Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849) Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” (1845), “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839). Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” (1835), * The Scarlet Letter (1850). Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851), “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853). Emily Dickinson, “Much Madness is divinest Sense—,” “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died,” “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—” (publ. posthumously, 1955). Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1860), “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” (1865), “Song of Myself” (1881). Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881). * Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892). Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat” (1897). Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899). Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” (1914), “Birches” (1915). T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), The Waste Land (1922). Ezra Pound, “Portrait d’une Femme” (1912), “In a Station of the Metro” (1913), “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” (1920). Eugene O’Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night (1940). * F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925). Ernest Hemingway, The Sun also Rises (1926). William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929). Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). * Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). * Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949). Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952). * Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream” (1963). Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” (1956). Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957) Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). John Barth, “Life Story” (1968). * Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (1987). August Wilson, Fences (1986). Louise Erdrich, “Fleur” (1986). Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (1990). Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles (1990). * Tony Kushner, Angels in America (1992). T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain (1995). Philip Roth, The Human Stain (2000). Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991), Caramelo (2002). Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2006).

Can I claim disability if I say I was triggered by Crime and Punishment 50 years ago. What about The Heart of Darkness or The Pearl?

Cider House Rules is one of my favorite novels along with a Prayer for Owen Meany. My philosophy is once you’ve reached 11th or 12th grade you should be preparing yourself for the real world and not hiding behind mommy’s trousers. That doesn’t seem to be the way anymore. A bit like folks on Nextdoor or whatever complaining about age guidelines for door to door trick or treating. Snowflakes

And he couldn’t even do that well…

Have you noticed most of the folks with Trumpkin signs display one for the AG as well but conveniently leave out one for Ms Sears

I’m going to wait until they are done screwing around with redistricting. The whole “non partisan” map drawing thing turned into a big fiasco thanks to partisanship on both sides. Still concerned about the Governors race.

There is a part of me tells me that’s what they want. Especially the whole thing about Beloved in Louden County. Stir up controversy over a stupid minor issue to get the base involved. But bore the rest of us

The Great British Baking Show is in our rotation.

Mine is scheduled for Monday at my local CVS.

We had a stretch at my last job where they had us asking for customer feedback on the call. They used it for evaluation purposes mostly. Every time I asked the question the old Animaniac bit was in the back of my head

I recently had it out with one of my doctors about something similar. He prescribed a drug that needed insurance approval. At the next visit he asked how I was faring on the prescription. ”I haven’t heard from anyone” “Do you answer your phone for strange numbers” “Not usually” “You should always answer your phone” ”If it’s important they should leave a message” ”Always answer your phone” I end up getting a call from the speciality pharmacy the next day.

They were attempting to enter part of the Capitol where the VP and Speaker, along with reps and senators. It wasn’t just simple vandalism. They were responsible for the deaths of four police officers (don’t try to bullshit me that the officers who committed suicide shouldn’t count in the total) If nothing else the Castle Rules that you folks once seriously and joyfully promoted should apply here. They were protecting themselves and others.

Forget about defunding the police, Trumpublicans want to do away with them all together

When was the last time Ohio State produced a successful NFL QB?

I sort of followed the first season then got bored with the genre. There was nothing in that scripted show that made me admire him. He reminds me of the guy who bought the last “real” radio station I worked. The guy came across as a nice guy when he was interested in buying the station. It was a small AM, we were ignored by the last couple small corporate owners who focused on the FM side, leaving us to basically keep the needle moving. He indicated he had big plans for the station. What he really wanted was the property and could give two shits about the station. Once he took over he hired a satellite music salesman as his consultant, we went round and round over the decision to go to the bird and his choice of formats once we did. He even accused me of sabotaging the equipment. Funny, when I left the 7-11 regional manager hired to oversee the operation also walked. The station eventually when dark. The guy now has a local reputation as a slum lord who cheats his tenants. To me that’s Trump in a nutshell. Only on a national scale. A slumlord who fleeces his followers. Just take a look at his latest social media venture. A shell company inside a shell company.

It looks like they had a rough year a while back and there was a disproportionate number of suicides. The school does have a reputation of being a nerd school with not too many parties (unlike that party school in Charlottesville) I should note my spouse is a UVa grad. Class of ‘72 one of the first groups of women to graduate there. She’s done very well. It toughened her up.

Flag poles, bear spray, baseball bats, chains, fire extinguishers all can be fairly lethal weapons in a large crowd of protesters. There’s even been documentation of firearms brought into the Capitol. If these guys had followed the law and stayed no one would have gotten shot. https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/capitol-protesters-were-armed-with-variety-of-weapons/

Come visit William and Mary. Depending on his major I’d say the quality of education is similar to both UVa and U of M. It still has the small town feel (Charlottesville has sprawled out of control in recent years). The sports teams are nothing to write home about, but. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/william-and-mary-3705

John Dean’s right. We need a Special Prosecutor, pronto

Or you with Nancy Pelosi and Joseph Biden