Yesterday, I didn’t get any knitting done – instead, I was untangling a ball of yarn I want to use for cuffs. Measuring it into two equal lengths is not difficult. but it does involve making tangkes along the way and then having to undo them, and this yarn was tangled before I started, and that had to be untangled first. I felt as if I were playing fast and loose – and losing. (“fast and loose” has nothing to do with speed – it was a grifting “hand is quicker than the eye” game similar to “which cup is the coin under,” played with a long belt which the grifter apparenly tangled up and challenged the mark to find the spot where a pull would un-knot the whole thing – make it loose. The mark almost invariably picked a spot where pulling would hold it fast, and lose his/her money.) Virgil didn’t call before curfew – but I’ll be seeing him on Sunday anyway
Referred by Daily Dose of Democracy. Just in case you missed it. It’s too good to miss.
This from The Conversation is not the least bit humorous. But some of the realities in it could lead to chuckles zt the potential consequences of new US military policy. This is not a good thing.
Archived from the New York Times, referred by VoteVets. The nest time you run into a MAGAt veteran, on social media, in person, or however, don’t forget that there are also large numbers of veterans like Thomas Gibbons-Neff – even though many don’t have whatever it takes to apologize in person.
In case you want to read her whole article which this is from, here it is.
kidnapped?” Well, there are a couple of reasons. One is that dolls have been used for so long to belittle women (think MAGA Barbie), but this shows that they can also be used to empower girls and women – to strengthen pride in their heritage. But also, this resonates with me because in my way I am doing the same things – character dolls representing powerful women. It’s slow, because I have real people to knit for, including myself. But I do have some finished. The most recent one was Nancy Pelosi (specifically on the day she left the White House having read the Apricot Antichrist the riot act. And I finally have a decent photo of that. Look, this country has s problem with misogyny which is holding us back from progress. Anything we can do, even if the action seems trivial, to combat that is worth doing.