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<\/a>This morning she leaves for A-Basin to ski. Where she and her Dad skied every winter from when she was three or four. Fewer skiers on Thanksgiving day.<\/p>\nRuth works two jobs. As a Starbucks’ barista and a cleaner in the CU library. She also has a full class load in the pre-med curriculum that includes biology, chemistry, statistics, and sociology. I’m so proud of her.<\/p>\n
Gabe won a writing prize in a story contest that included 13,000 entries. 700 winners. Go, Gabe. He also got accepted into the University of Montana’s writing program with a $5,000 scholarship.\u00a0Both of them had incredibly difficult childhoods, then their Dad died.<\/p>\n
I admire their resilience.<\/p>\n
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Just a moment:\u00a0 Here’s an important article in this month’s Atlantic:\u00a0 The Conservative Movements Intellectual Collapse<\/a>. Here are two sentences that give you the flavor.<\/p>\n The author, Jonathan Chait, one of my favorite Atlantic writers, shows how first gradually, then in toto, even previously independent think tanks like the Heritage Foundation fell under the Trumpist spell, explaining, for example, the strategic importance of Greenland and the Panama Canal, then, when nothing happened regarding them, stayed silent.<\/p>\n In the vacuum of ideas that is the Trumpian black hole it is not surprising that such entities as the New Apostolic Reformation, Christian Nationalism, and White Supremacists now led by Nick Fuentes who blithely owns his anti-Semitism with no cover at all, have taken the place of thought.<\/p>\n This may, as his term moves closer to its event horizon, leave a real opening for those of us with, well, ideas. There are now, for example, three mayors of major U.S. cities: Seattle, Boston, and New York City who are democratic socialists. Even the faded remnant of the Democratic Party may come up with an idea or two. (he said hopefully.)\u00a0 May it be so.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samain and the Radiation Moon (3 sessions) Thanksgiving gratefuls: Jackie. Ruth. Shadow. Todd and Alise. Rocky Mountain Cancer Care. My son. Seoah. Murdoch. Mary. Mark. Diane. Gabe. The Ancient Brothers. Alan. Joanne. Marilyn and Irv. Tara. Luke. Ginny and Janice. Leo. Eleanor. Annie and Luna. Derek. My Wild Neighbors. The Night Sky. Orion. Polaris. Sparks … Continue reading Mad King Donald<\/span> <\/a>“Trump\u2019s most outrageous<\/span> innovation was dispensing with the pretense that he needed to provide reasons for his positions…His greatest apostasy was not his rejection of any particular set of ideas, but his categorical rejection of the whole notion of ideas.”\u00a0 \u00a0And there you have it. Rule by whim and fancy. Our very own Mad King Donald.<\/p>\n