Yesterday, I ran my car for a while, since I hadn’t driven it Sunday. I also out the updated insurance and registration papers in the glove box and the registration sticker on the license plate. (After three wet days, it stopped raining long enough for me to do that.) A couple of weeks ago I was scraping around the base of one of my irises so the rhizome could get sunlight so it can bloom. I was thinking it was kind of early – we’ve been having temperature ups and downs but chilly (at least to me) on balance – but I noticed a bud today – so there may be more coming. No guarantee, but irises tend to surprise me always.
Politics Plus has known and remarked on this phenomenon for some time. There are memes about it which have had widespread and repeated exposure. I don’t know why it’s taking so long for so many decent people to get it. I suppose the fact that decent people, because they are decent, don’t think like that – and deep down we all believe everyone thinks the way we do – is a huge factor. Unfortunately, that isn’t true. Different people think different thoughts, and many of those thoughts are anything but decent. Check out comments on the fundraiser for Shiloh Hendrix (in the 4th paragraph – barf bag alert.)
Y’all know I’m not a huge fan of Meidas Touch journalism. It’s not because of inaccuracy – despite the occasional exaggeration in a title, they are on target. Nor is it because I dislike them personally – because I don’t. I’m delighted to see them exceed Fox News in viewership. And I do respect their “Tell them what you’re going to tell them, then tell them, and them yell them what you told them style . It useful for many, maybe for most listeners. It just bores me to tears. But this is a text article, not a video – and written not by staff but by a Ukrainian journalist. It’s not very long, and it’s profound. It does have a short introduction by Ron Filipkowski.
