LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Weather, Friends, Nashville, The Good Wife

Such weather whiplash we have, snapping from below freezing at night to suddenly 70 degrees two days later, than back down into the low 50's as daytime high, back up to mid-60's.  Consequently I seem to have acquired another small cold.  Bah.

To make up for it two dear friends are here -- well, one was here, and she's left again; the other is coming in this afternoon.  But it's kinda rainy, windy and cool, not what she was hoping it would be here.  It would be good if we got real rain. We're about to fall into official drought condition.  There's been no rain all autumn.  But whatever water falls out of the sky today -- if any at all -- it's not expected to be much.



There was no Nashville last night!   No Nashville until the 13th!  Woe is I. Nashville and
The Good Wife are my primary escape viewing, escape from the constant politiking that isn't really about doing anything no matter who They are.

That we are so likely to be compelled into years of Clinton & Christie blather is too grim to contemplate.

Trust me.  Anyone who thinks Christie is a moderate hasn't lived in this neck of the woods for decades. Christie is a frackin' bully. Anyone who thinks he's a moderate doesn't live here, and watched him for years. He's another flavor of Giuilani, who also thought he could ride a phoney rep for effectiveness on 9/11 to the oval office.* Christie's the sort who takes a helicopter to his son's soccer game and charges it to the taxpayers, then lies about it, who hates gay marriage and women's rights, and who intensely dislikes unions, fair wages and the poor. He's entirely out of that ancient Southern slaveholding outpost of New Jersey that is bigoted, racist and white supremacist.

Clinton?  She long ago sold her soul to the Bloated Corporate Global Oligarchy.

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* Stupid Giuiliani was the one who refused to listen to any expert advice in the matter and forced the City's Emergency War Room be put in a sub basement of the Towers, where, then, it wasn't available when the emergency happened.

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