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That’s a lot of calls…
So since I can’t call my elected Representative about this, I’m calling the other 434. That’s a lot of phone calls, even though they only take about a minute apiece. Did you know that 434 is evenly divisible by 62? It’s very interesting to take this cross-country journey and visit with heroes like Cori Bush …
Time to start grocery pick-up
Okay, I’ve heard enough horror stories of people keeping safe to their personal lockdowns but still getting COVID because they go grocery shopping. The local grocery I usually go to is doing curbside pickup now, so that’s what I’ll be doing. We’re into 10,000 deaths every 3 days. Half a million dead before the end …
How Tolerance works
This article is really good, and reframes tolerance in such a way that the Paradox of Tolerance is no longer a paradox. https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376
Little Italy
Chapter 1 “Christmas just isn’t Christmas when you have to work,” grumbled Joe. “It sucks to pull overtime on holidays,” Mack agreed. “It’s not fair, all those assholes out there getting drunk, or eating Chinese food and going to movies,” added Amy. “Somebody has to do it, and the money’s good,” said Biff from the …
I guess I just love meat and vegetables encased in dough.
Steamed pork dumplings
Pasties
Balance
Is there anything that better illustrates the balance of order and chaos than fire contained?
Jesus
Jesus was no dummy. He had the problem figured out: wealth inequality. But his solution was to give away all your possessions and hope for the end of the world. That ended so poorly he was driven to an elaborate suicide-by-cop. In the end, Jesus was a sort of nihilist, believing that life on earth …