I'm going to try to remember to hashtag my political stuff, but (1) I've never believed it's healthy or realistic to pretend politics isn't part of life -- it's how we figure out how to *live* with each other, for Pete's sake -- and (2) until November 5 it'll be on my mind a lot. It's not every year you get to watch your country choose between democracy and fascism.
So if you really don't want to see politics, you'd probably better mute me till November 5 (at least!).

Is there a betting pool on Cabinet appointments now? Because I got a hot tip: Agriculture will be headed up by an old guy named MacDonald.

I've been grieving the election since Tuesday night. But last night I remembered the Babylonian captivity and the story of the youths in the fiery furnace (Daniel 3 in the KJV) and have begun to feel a little more stiff-necked. Not exactly more hopeful, but less grief-stricken.

Get your NYT Games fix here while the strike is on:

https://nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-builds/

Not two weeks after WaPo wimps out, the NYT decides to be a dick to its tech workers.
The Tech Guild’s core demands are "just-cause protections, remote-work flexibility, and fixes to the inequitable pay structures that undercompensated the union’s nonmale, nonwhite members."
https://slate.com/technology/2024/11/new-york-times-tech-guild-strike-election-coverage-nightmare.html
The techs have set up their own game sites, so I won't be jonesing too hard for my usuals. Assuming I can concentrate on them at all with my mind picturing the Army hunting illegals like a damned SS.

Oh snap, forgot the link to the article that provoked this:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/republican-wife-harris-vote-videos-b2639684.html

First, a wise person once told me people lie when they're scared. Before inveighing against wives lying to their husbands about voting, ask why they're scared.
Second, well-known family values spokesman and serial adulterer on his third marriage who presented divorce papers to his first wife in her hospital room Newt Gingrich should be slapped hard every time he pollutes the word "marriage" by pushing it out of his lying philandering mouth.

Look who wants to defund the police now....
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-police-mass-deportation-funding-b2638423.html

🤬🤬🤬 Literally a week before the election, Trump's Court lets Virginia block people from voting.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/virginia-supreme-court-voter-registration-b2638318.html

Just got this from Cheetolini. When he gets desperate he gets creepy.

Spouse persuaded me to help drape a tarp over an absent neighbor's leaky roof. We're both about threescore and ten, which is Nature's way of saying "stay on the ground, fool." But there turned out to be no way to do it without going into the house and out a 2nd-story window into the roof -- and this neighbor is a hoarder. OMG. Crawling around the wet mossy roof was bad, but navigating the house was worse. If you're a hoarder, get help, you need it.