Here comes the rain again

It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . and again to TulseyTown, more rain.

I'll be honest: I'm frustrated. This blog is supposed to provide a moment of reflection for creatives. But the mailbox on Watercourse Way is crammed full with hand-wringing attempts to make reasoned sense of what we have done to ourselves, appropriate as that may be for this moment. I promise to put a lid on most of it.

If you missed it: Jon Stewart's message after the sorry news.

Men failed America, but women will not give up so easily – Amanda Marcotte

America has had three foundings: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. With the election of Donald Trump, America will need a fourth founding to defend and renew its democracy against a man and regime who, as promised, will rule like a dictatorship or some other form of authoritarianism modeled after Vladimir Putin's Russia or Viktor Orbán's Hungary. Are there enough Americans who are up to such a task and responsibility? Chauncey DeVega doesn't think so.

It’s time to prepare for the Trump sequel. The billionaires have won. It’s not doomsday — but there is suffering on the horizon.

All that said, Anne Lennox would have us talk and walk together as lovers do — in the rain.