Monthly Archives: January 2021

Good riddance to Trump,

government by ignorance, and government by gut/personal whim. Having a 300 pound guy with a map of Georgia and a sharpie predicting hurricanes rather than scientific experts has predictable limits and limitations. I must admit I feel a lot safer … Continue reading

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Email reply re. youth poet laureate’s poem at inauguration:

Rhythms, some word play, and mostly cliched metaphors, but more (loosely) prosey in tone and style, and more cliched than great poems? (Line divisions by themselves don’t automatically = good/great poetry.) Is there anything editable about it, as is? (A … Continue reading

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So Why Write about U.S. and Politics?

Inevitable, given how much Canada and the world is bound up in what happens south of the border. Thanks to Trump, nearly everything became very politicized the past 4 years. Much of it consisting of lies that needed to be … Continue reading

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“Respectfully yours, Jason Kenney”

Alberta’s Premier deserves no respect from Biden and the U.S. after calling Michigan governor “Brain-dead”. After cheating and lying to members of his own party. After deregulating so much at the expense of citizens and workers. After decimating health care … Continue reading

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Life on Mute

No tv commercials get heard here. We press Mute whenever they start which also gives an opening for conversation or getting small tasks done. Often during the day, such as now, CNN is on so we can see what’s happening … Continue reading

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Re. Blue Monday

I would estimate sunshine to be, potentially, one half of a depressed person’s day. Without it, things can look very dark, indeed, in a prairie January.

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After 30,529 false and misleading claims,

whadidya expect? The storming of the Bastille, uh Capitol, was the destined culmination of those myriad lies and The Big Lie (a la the Holocaust) that the election was stolen and that Trump actually won it. As Timothy Snyder (his … Continue reading

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After AIMCo lost 2.1 billion in AB pension funds, Jason Kenney

quietly turned over the AB teachers’ retirement fund to them to mismanage and lose that nest egg, too. Kenney is a stupid, greedy, corrupt, untrustworthy, tubby gangster running amok with AB people’s money. He’s love to get Albertan’s CPPs, too … Continue reading

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“We are the stuff that dreams are made on”

–Shakespeare. Well, of course, we dream a lot at night, whether these dreams are remembered or not. Then there are the daytime dreams, plans, and goals that we set for ourselves as we try to choose and control our futures. … Continue reading

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The past Covid year has truly been a

death-in-life existence for real.

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