Melania: “Thar she blows…”

It's Thor's day . . . a sunny, cool Fall day in TulseyTown . . .

“The blues is the truth.”

If you understand – things are just as they are. If you do not understand – things are just as they are. – Zen proverb.

It sounds oxymoronic to call someone an “elected dictator,” but the American people are about to find out it is not. Trump's voters and supporters did this to themselves. Many of them will soon feel the negative consequences and painful results of their decision to turn their backs on democracy and freedom very soon. Any public voice who suggests that everything is going to be fine and that panic or despair are unwarranted should not be taken seriously. That is projection and self-soothing behavior. That said, there is hope. – Chauncey DeVega, Salon, 11/13/24.

For many people, the rule of law has become a laughing stock, a joke. But hear me out on this—abandoning the rule of law is not the path forward for us. Insisting on it, demanding that it still apply, is. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 11.12.24.

Trump is testing whether the Senate will be loyal to the Constitution or whether it will bend the knee. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 11.14.24

Even Melania is walking away, according to Heather Cox Richardson's post yesterday in her blog Letters From An American.

And, finally, Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick was published today in 1851.

We don’t know what life will bring, so it is what we bring to life that matters.

mitakuye oyasin – Lakota