I have monthly donations going to Doctors Without Borders and Human Rights Watch.
Mine are to Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health, the Seattle Public Library, Northwest Harvest (local hunger relief agency), and DAWN (local agency protecting women and children from domestic abuse). I may add the ACLU, and I'd like to give to a group fighting climate change, but another part of me thinks I need to concentrate my donations a bit more instead of throwing $10 here, $20 there.
I actually *want* career politicians. It's not a fucking entry level job.
THIS. All through this campaign I've been saying it's like if an NFL team wasn't happy with their quarterback, but instead of looking at which QBs were available through free agency or drafting one of the year's best college QBs, they put a tennis player or golfer out on the field. Because CHANGE!
THIS. All through this campaign I've been saying it's like if an NFL team wasn't happy with their quarterback, but instead of looking at which QBs were available through free agency or drafting one of the year's best college QBs, they put a tennis player or golfer out on the field. Because CHANGE!
Or when you need a quadruple bypass, instead of the experienced heart surgeon, you get the random dude walking down the hall outside the OR. Because fuck the "medical insiders," am I right?
Just agreeing furiously that you don't skip running for city councilman and go straight to President. No frickin' way. I have no problem with people being career politicians. I have problems with people seeing the job as a way to get richer.
I also have a problem with the idea that a nation should be run like a business, and with being Russia's butt-monkey.
Yes, to all of the above.
We're going out tonight to celebrate our 6th anniversary, and we're taking Mom out to celebrate her birthday on Sunday. I'm having trouble getting into a celebratory mood.
I'm having trouble getting into a celebratory mood.
Seriously.
I was doing okay yesterday, but it was really fucking hard to get out of bed today. And then I had to force myself to take the dog for a run. I feel better having done so, but I'm not liking the new normal already.
Folks: please remember to take care of yourselves, and that means getting as much exercise as you can. It's vital for your mental health, and will help your physical health, too. In a stressful world, it'll make a big difference.
I wonder if there's a November Project for middle-aged people with middle-aged levels of fitness? The November Project is free and by all accounts it's a super-supportive group of folks.
STOP EMAILING ME TED CRUZ YOU SLIMY MUTHERFUCKER I HAVE UNSUBSCRIBED FOUR TIMES
State Department has been increasingly convinced that the key unit of government is the city, not the state, and that that will become more and more the case.
City/state makes sense to me, because a region can only get so big before you start losing a sense of community with the people on the other side of the political entity. I don't know how you can efficiently get rural areas to identify with a city state. I'm going to need to see how Renaissance Italy handled their farm lands. They may have had small enough populations that the farm lands and the country people were close enough to the city--or they didn't care and the rural population was ignored, and we know how that turns out.
I think I'm increasing my donations to HIAS. I'm scared about what will happen with refugees.
I went for a walk at the local botanical gardens this morning. It soothed my soul a bit.
