Yesterday, I saw Virgil and we played cribbage. He’s still having vivd dreams, but fornow, he knows they are dreams. Eventually he’ll forget that and I’ll have to explain it again. Our 42nd anniversary was last week, on Cinco de Mayo.
Robert Reich on Graham Platner. There are some Democrats who are seriously doubtful of Platner – mostly based on his tattoos, as far as I can tell. He probably got them when he was in the Marine Corps, for 8 years after graduated from high school (he remained a reservist afterwards and was deployed again multiple times.) His highest rank was Sergeant, and since he was in and active more than 8 years, I can pretty well guarantee he is not pro-establishment. I’ve known a whole lot of Marines who were fresh out of high school – they can be incredibly impulsive. And tattoos are probably the most regretted thing one can do as a young person. Anyway, after his initial active duty, he attended George Washington University, which is fairly prestigious. It’s private, so one gets no help from the government except the GI Bill (unless the government is sending you there to learn skills it want you to use for it, as happened to me.) You can get all thr scoop on him in Wikipedia, including some names of his endorsers, including, besides Robert Reich, Elizabeth Warren and others.
From NBC news, referred by Daily Dose of Democracy. This is a different strain of hantavirus from the one we in Colorado are familiar with, which is carried by deer mice and not transmissible from human to human. Given the current regime, I’m surprised that such precautions are being taken – but very grateful. (the mice that were in my house have all been house mice, not deer mice.)
Archived from Mediaite (because they want you to turn off your as blocker.) A little humor to help us keep going.
https://www.theroot.com/a-federal-judge-just-exposed-the-discriminatory-truth-b-2000104507
This is a few days old, but I thought it could wait – I didn’t see the MSM covering it under this regime. And it’s good news, as far as it goes. I hope it gets past SCROTUS still standing.
