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<\/p>\nYesterday still pretty calm.\u00a0 I did “bite the bullet” and glued and crimped end caps on 20 strands of\u00a0 very light, very slick, and very thin (about 3\/16″) jewelry ribbon for pendants\u00a0 Because they were so slick, I had to glue them in place and let them dry before crimping, or they would have slipped right out.\u00a0 Since I didn’t graduate from Hogwarts, I couldn’t temporarily make me smaller, or them larger, so they’d be easier to handle.\u00a0 But I certainly wished I could.\u00a0 I did get it done, though.<\/p>\n
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Politizoom – Thomas Massie Comes Clean About the Republican Party. We Owe Him<\/a> Stuff That Needs To Be Said – Yes World, It\u2019s That Bad Here in America\u2014and Worse<\/a> The New Yorker – Should We Believe the Stories of Men Mistaken for Gods?<\/a> Food for Thought (OK, I know it’s silly) – Yesterday still pretty calm.\u00a0 I did “bite the bullet” and glued and crimped end caps on 20 strands of\u00a0 very light, very slick, and very thin (about 3\/16″) jewelry ribbon for pendants\u00a0 Because they were so slick, I had to glue them in place and let them dry before crimping, or they would have slipped […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,4115],"class_list":["post-46170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-justice","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – There was an amusing little dust up on MSNBC [a few] night[s ago]. Bulwark editor Charlie Sykes was asked to comment on Thomas Massie\u2019s egregiously tone deaf Christmas card photo of la famille armed for bear, in light of four children being murdered at school last week in Michigan. Sykes called the display a \u201cdick pic\u201d which caused the host to flutter and respond, \u201cSorry, everybody, I\u2019m not sure we can say that, Charlie!\u201d This was family hour, after all. But Sykes is spot on in his assertion that, \u201cHe\u2019s basically trying to show off. He\u2019s trying to trigger to get the reaction.\u201d
\nClick through if you like.<\/a> The analogy is exactly on target.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – But here on the ground this malignant sickness has a face, one that is far too familiar – So yes, it\u2019s the staggering cruelty of those holding the power here\u2014but just as much it\u2019s the people we know and live alongside who are so gladly empowering them.
\nClick through for the full description.<\/a> See if it doesn’t resonate with you. It certainly does with me. I may just put the link in my email signature in lieu of Rocky Mountain Mike.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Who can make a god is as fascinating a question as who can kill one, and Anna Della Subin tries to answer both in her new book, \u201cAccidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine\u201d (Macmillan). Setting Cook alongside the likes of Haile Selassie, Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s, Prince Philip, General Douglas MacArthur, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and even President Donald Trump, she considers why some men are made into gods, by whom, and\u2014the most interesting of the mysteries about Cook and all of his putatively divine kin\u2014to what ends.
\nClick through for more, including anecdotes.<\/a> Without reading the book, I’m pretty sure the correct answer is “No.” Or maybe “Hell, no.” (And reading through did not change my mind.)<\/p>\n
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