tidings of comfort and joy

Okay, I finally get it.

I realized at the gym on Friday, with CNN running on the big screen TVs that hang everywhere there, that I get a great sense of comfort and safety from watching the Obamas on TV. It wasn't just a lack of the sense of fear and loathing I'm used to: it was actual pleasure.

...so that's what the emotional response to having a leader who you identify as like you is. Huh.

Now I understand the people who still defend Reagan. 0.o

Tags: neurology, politics

sunshine in my eyes can make me cry

I wrote a very long post on the problems of the kleptocracy and some ideologies for fighting it over here on my Patreon.
gotta get behind the mule in the morning and plow.

( Reposted from Patreon) Over the next ten days, under the auspices of Slate, Héctor Tobar, Ben H. Winters, Nisi Shawl, Saladin Ahmed,…
i got no deeds to do. no promises to keep.

Here is a storify of my Inauguration Day Twitter rant welcoming the new folks to the resistance. Do the work that is before your hand to do. There…

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sunshine in my eyes can make me cry

I wrote a very long post on the problems of the kleptocracy and some ideologies for fighting it over here on my Patreon.
gotta get behind the mule in the morning and plow.

( Reposted from Patreon) Over the next ten days, under the auspices of Slate, Héctor Tobar, Ben H. Winters, Nisi Shawl, Saladin Ahmed,…
i got no deeds to do. no promises to keep.

Here is a storify of my Inauguration Day Twitter rant welcoming the new folks to the resistance. Do the work that is before your hand to do. There…

tidings of comfort and joy

sunshine in my eyes can make me cry

gotta get behind the mule in the morning and plow.

i got no deeds to do. no promises to keep.

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sunshine in my eyes can make me cry

gotta get behind the mule in the morning and plow.

i got no deeds to do. no promises to keep.