More inanities:
1. Trickster loves ice cubes. If she sees me grab one out of the freezer she jumps over to wherever I am to bogart the cube.
It works.
She doesn’t get the popsicles, however.
2. Anthony Weiner stated months ago that there likely were more pics of him floating around in cyberspace, so. . . there you go.
I take it I’m supposed to be upset that these pics apparently date from the same time in which he was trying to get his life back together, that they were from a year rather than two years ago, but POLITICIAN LIES ABOUT SEX is not exactly news.
Anyway, I can’t be arsed to care much since I don’t support him in the mayor’s race. If he wins I’ll be upset because I think he’s too conservative and I’m not at all convinced that he would actually be a good mayor, not because he turns into a thirteen-year-old boy in the presence of a smart phone.
I thought he showed terrible judgment when this first came out, but I also thought it wasn’t worth resigning his seat over. If his constituents decided to vote against him because he flashed his dick, so be it, but as what he did was just kinda-creepy, but not illegal, it didn’t debar him from the House.
And I was sad to see him go, not because he was a great legislator—he was a terrible legislator—but because he played a particular role in the House and for the Democrats that I think is crucial: as the self-appointed pain the ass, the rat-terrier barking at and occasionally biting his and his party’s opponents.
It would be terrible if everyone in the House behaved in this manner, but in a chamber with 435 members each party needs its pains-in-the-ass. The GOP has rather too many of these at this point, and the Dems, too few. Weiner’s resignation was a loss for the Dems.
And if he wins the mayoral primary, that, too, will be a loss for the Dems.
3. Yes, I bought a new fan. Not as quiet as the old one, but still, pretty good.
Doubt it will last almost 30 years, however.
4. I’ve been following this story, mainly at The Slog, about the hunger strike among California prisoners, and am glad to see this bit by Rob Fischer at the New Yorker.
Am not at all glad to see that prison officials are considering force-feeding the protesters.
Jesus fucking christ. I am not a progressive but this is the twenty-first century: can we not figure out a better way to deal with criminals than this?
I get that some people really cannot live in society, that by their deeds they should be keep apart, but is this really the best solution we can come up with?
5. I’m listening to Q with Jian Ghomeshi and the guest host is talking about flip-flops with Dana Stevens.
Dana Stevens is against them anywhere outside of the shower or the beach. I am with Dana Stevens on this crusade.
On the other hand, that people insist upon wearing them oot-and-aboot gives me a chance to be smug: Whenever I see a rat on a subway platform, I get to say “and this is why you shouldn’t wear flip-flops in the city.”
6. I am also, for the record, against people clipping their nails on the train.
Gotta have some standards, doncha know.
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