Bad news - 8 hours in the dentist chair.

That's fucking heroic. I don't even have dental anxiety and I would have quailed at that.

Also, Kaiser screwed up my labs again for my shot tomorrow. I'm so tired of this crap.

What the fuck??? Do they constantly have new, clueless people? Are they so overwhelmed that they can't keep stuff straight? Do they figure cancer patients are too desperate/tired/scared to fight back against incompetence? (I have residual issues about the state of care for cancer patients)

all of the above, probably.

Well, glad the car business is done, Ginger. That fucking sucks about the lab work.

Christ, Ginger. You deserve better.

I mean, we all deserve better health care, but you have been putting up with a shit-ton of bullshit.

You can't wipe out history, and if you start eliminating images of supporters of slavery, most of the founding fathers would disappear. I think we need to do a better job of coming to terms with the U.S.'s original sin.

Righto. I'd be fine with keeping statues of Davis and NBF if we put up statues of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman and Ulysses S. Grant right next to them. Strangely, I doubt that southern governors are willing to do that.

I saw a killer quote today from a Georgetown law professor who was interviewed on Diane Reihm:

I have no respect for your ancestors. As far as your ancestors are concerned, I shouldn’t be a law professor at Georgetown. I should be a slave. That’s why they fought that war. I don’t understand what it means to be proud of a legacy of terrorism and violence. Last week at this time, I was in Israel. The idea that a German would say, you know, that thing we did called the Holocaust, that was wrong, but I respect the courage of my Nazi ancestors. That wouldn’t happen. The reason people can say what you said in the United States, is because, again, black life just doesn’t matter to a lot of people.

That's a mic-drop if I ever heard one.

Oh, source: [link]

Is Diane Reihm the "you" he was referring to? Or was it a more general you?

He's answering a caller, who complained that he was disrespecting the caller's ancestors.

I'd be happy to see all the statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest lynched from the nearest construction crane for the Fort Pillow massacre alone. Jefferson Davis was a petty idiot, but it's hard to tell whether he ensured Northern victory or pointlessly dragged out the war.

I can't have the shot without the lab work, so I guess I'll call in the morning and see if I can find out if the test has actually been entered into the computer or if the lab person screwed up. She was being trained by the competent lab person. I should have made competent person enter the information. Either way, it will add another hour or three of fun with medicine. At the moment, I am pissed at so many medical people.

Jefferson David statues in KY or MS make sense to me. From KY was US Sec of War, was Senator from MS.

Statues elsewhere? ehn. I think no.