#WritingFromIsolationWard
Category: Current Events
It’s Wednesday November 4, 2020 and I’m afraid to open a web page that I don’t have control over the content of,
I know there are only a few possible realities that exist right now
- Joe Biden got enough votes to win decisively. (Didn’t happen)
- Donald Trump got enough votes to win decisively. (I wasn’t watching, so I don’t know)
- Donald Trump got enough votes to declare himself the winner and the ‘net is awash with
smiling images of him and his followers. - Joe Biden got enough votes to be declared the winner but Trump is Contesting it everywhere he can.
The uncertainty is killing me, but simply knowing might be worse. Last night I checked how things were going about 11pm and got that familiar sinking feeling.
Good Morning November 4, 2020.
On September the 12th the Globe was still ringing. The Echos of the destruction of Symbols of Capitalistic Glory and “American Power” were still passing through the world.
The whole world held its breath, expecting the Cowboy President to run off half-cocked and do something insane to the whole world.
It didn’t happen.
Instead what happened was like a Funeral for Freedom, a long form WAKE for Liberty began and it ended some time in 2003.
So the falling of the Twin Towers, it wasn’t just a symbol that was destroyed, it was the tolling of the Funeral Bell of the American Experiment.
But it was also the sound of the Starting Pistol, the promise of the Militias of the 90s, who did the same thing to Americans, their country-persons. This was the thing they had been waiting for, a way to dissolve “Liberal Democracy” and they have achieved it in Donald Trump, a man so enamoured with his own image that he can’t even comprehend the damage he has done and is doing.
The Fascists love him, because he is doing what they want, ignoring the world in favour of the mirror. They can work without limit and change the face of America and the World.
Over the last few weeks the local Dollarama (a Walmart Company?) has been stocking massive piles of Trade Paper Backs (TPB) so much so that I’ve already overrun my bookshelves and storage. I have a pile of Books on my bedside table FOR STORAGE. Not for reading. I’ve also got a stack in the Bathroom and a bunch that have just sort of found a home in one of my short bookshelves.
Usually, I would just read through them. Start on “book X” and read all the ones that are in the same series until done.
I’ve been keeping myself slow on these, mostly to string them out as long as possible. I wouldn’t normally buy (for example) a series of Thor books, but because they were so cheap I bought a big stack of them. I read Thor off an on, because the writing for Thor can get a bit “much”
All of that aside, I have weeks of reading ahead of me. Months of stories and years of memories. The problem with all that being the stack of straight novels piling up and the years of movies and TV shows I’ve avoided.
I finished “Destroy all Humans” last night.
I have too much Passive Media around I think. Also, I just turned 45, you should see my Collection of Transformers!
In the continuing “Liberals are the real Fascists” story that people have decided to just run with Reason essentially reprinted this article (https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Churchill-At-Skidmore-curiosity-might-get-you-15553968.php#photo-19749884)
This Reason article and the source article don’t contain any direct quotes from the students.
Anyone else think it’s odd that both articles contain zero direct quotes from anyone making the complaint? Like maybe there may be more to this that “He went to a Blue Lives Matter display”
Why would two different articles be made without a single direct quote from someone making the complaint?
There are quotes that are purported to be from people, but no direct quotes (there are direct quotes from students who are against his firing, so it’s not like Churchill didn’t reach out to Students)
Also, the articles state that his Wife is not employed by the school, but it’s clear from school sources that there are classes taught by the wife.
I’m concerned that there really is only one side being presented here and the Students are being portrayed as focused on a single event rather than even addressing their concerns directly.
On Balance; only the “free speech” of one party here is being defended.
Here’s one from a Student, take from it what you will, but at least is gives the Students themselves a voice that both linked articles don’t http://skidmorenews.com/new-blog/2020/8/31/opinion-the-petersons-amp-blue-lives-matter-students-reveal-a-pattern-of-racism-among-skidmore-faculty-and-staff
A Star Trek Reverse Order Episode
Published by NiteMayr on January 10, 2021