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I mailed mine in a couple of weeks ago. The spouse went to the county early voting center weekend before last.

I have two questions for our resident Republican apologists (I know they won’t answer) 1) Define CRT and tell me what states and districts it is actually being taught. 2) When if ever did parents actually have any input into what schools are teaching. And isn’t that is why there are school board elections.

In Detroit maybe the could call it the Pussycat Lounge

Welcome to the dark side😉 You’ll soon get the secret handshake

Interesting since the Republicans rigged the nominating process to get Glen. They’ve also been actively pushing early voting and mail ballots.

I’m rooting for the backup from North Farmington whomever he may be

It’s gonna be a nail biter. While Va has been fairly solid blue in voting, outside of areas like DC, Richmond and parts of Hampton Roads it’s still the old south. I have a feeling there is some voting fatigue with three straight Democratic Governors. Along with the fact that they can’t run for re-election. Also going from a hard fought Presidential/Congressional race directly into this one. Louden County is the key. Still a lot of crazies there

Her machine? WTF

I tend to read a lot of stuff from authors I stumble upon by accident. I spent a lot of time reading Mary Doria Russell. A friend recommended The Sparrow. The local library’s copy was not available so I picked up Doc, a historical novel based on Doc Holiday and the events around the OK Corral. That lead to Epitaph, Wyatt Earp following the Tombstone shootout, another well researched novel. My favorite Russell novel is A Thread of Grace. It’s centered around WWII Jewish refugees and the Italian Resistance Movement. The novel is based upon account of survivors. I finally found The Sparrow, it was probably better that I read the others first. The novel is quite thought provoking. One final recommendation from Ms Russell, Women of Copper Country. It’s based on the Copper Country Strikes of 1913-14 in the UP. A good look at the Labor Movement and the mine operations.

Working my way through LeCarre’s A Delicate Truth. LeCarre’s outrage over corporations taking over the intelligence gathering of nations is coming thru here. Has anyone gotten into the Gabriel Allon series of “spy novels” written by Daniel Silva. They’ve become a yearly treat since they come out near my birthday…

In 1960 the Yankees out scored the Pirates 55-27 but lost 3 games to 4

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