After decades, I still suck at being an adult

@Merlin @realDDGlover Sadly, that happens rather frequently.

Our Eastern Coyotes are so damn big because they bred with wolves . This beautiful one was in my yard this morning

@impermanence42 I do the same, but not that neatly

@Kaysymmetry As my father would say, the hell with ‘em’

@TomeReader

@witchestruthpost But then he might try to expel my demons, and I’m quite fond of them really.

If you feed Santa after midnight https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/ne2Qh0cYapHK9OOlnjz6

My goddaughter in Guatemala selling balloons last night so she can buy Christmas bread and chicken for the people who dig sand from the riverbed near Pana. She’ll deliver it today.

@HoneyBadgerEnergy Got it

Smart dog in a storm

Pretty rain in my front yard

@HoneyBadgerEnergy I thought behind the Winslow House in Marshfield MA there were slave quarters. Maybe they don’t still stand.

I just said “good night Phancy, You are a good cat” And my iPhone started playing” Merry Christmas, Kiss my ass” I swear, and I don’t even use itunes

4/4
from the struggles of an awakened civil society and public opinion expressing their plural and contradictory discourses through a free press" (70-71). Thus, it is safe to say that the US have functioned as a modern liberal democracy- albeit a flawed one.

#politics 3/?
He defines democracy as "political power exercised either directly or indirectly through participation, competition, and liberty" (110). In the African context, Abdoulaye Bathily (1994) has made the point that "By democratization we do not mean only political democracy as expressed through multi-party systems as has become fashionable in Africa recently. Genuine democracy derives from the struggles of an Genuine democracy derives ...

2/? Shoot forgot to # the last one. #political
O'Neil (2010) has a very useful discussion of democracy. He distinguishes between the Greeks' direct participation and the Roman Empire's republicanism. He then reminds us, "As political rights and institutions have expanded over the centuries, republicanism and democracy-Roman and Greek thought and practices-have become intertwined to produce the modern liberal democratic regime we know today " (O'Neil 2010, 112).

1/? I've seen a few people here mention that some on the right like to say that 'the US is a republic not a democracy.' There is a very nice way to respond to that that I use when students claim that in class. It'll take a thread though:

@JoshuaHolland I took mine to Lowe’s and walked around inside for 30 minutes yesterday. Tomorrow might be Tractor Supply

@GreenCheese it took several hours for mine to kick in I remember