The fascist coup has failed, this time around. We get a short grace period before fighting the next one. The Democratic Party establishment has not been doing shining work since the election: Biden has already made some deeply ungood Cabinet choices, and Pelosi started working on strategies to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory even before the fascists started filing lawsuits. The pre-2004 Red Sox would have recognized fellow travelers.
This magnificent trio of Scandinavian women performed this at Fiddle Tunes last year, and I've been lusting after it ever since:
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It's written by Anna Lindblad (on the left there), inspired by the music and friendships she made at the Tønder Festival, but it's a Zydeco tune, like this one. It's on her album Med Vänner ("With Friends"), but the original is a complicated tapestry of many instruments, and I've wanted to pick apart this simpler version, but didn't have a good recording.
The job hunt is going well, I think. I'm grateful to not have to be in a rush. The downside is that I don't have a job, but I'm better situated for unemployment than at any other time in my life? It's worth it, to land in the right situation, and it will take a little time: one of my good friends said, "You're amazing at managing down and sideways, but not up. So if you're head of Engineering at a small company, that more or less takes managing up out of the equation." She's been in executive roles for a while now, and sure enough the one VP role I've been interviewing for so far is much more suited to me. So we'll see how that goes.
Eight months ago I would have said "Defund The Police" is a little extreme, but after seeing how thoroughly their only response to concerns about police violence is more violence, watching one after another police union president stand up and scream like an abusive alcoholic dad on a bender that we're all horrible people because we don't appreciate how much they do for us, hearing how they continue beating and killing citizens with impunity, well, sign me up.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">call me crazy but i'm starting to think that it's bad that every city in america funds a small standing army of right-wing nutjobs that hates it</p>— Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li (@perdricof) <a href="https://twitter.com/perdricof/status/1322732916489756672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The institution is rotten to the core, including liberal bastions like the Bay Area. Just dissolve every police department. I don't care if we have a replacement plan, although people do. We'll figure it out. It won't be worse than the status quo.
And that's our news, on this 288th day of March 2020. Good night, and good luck.
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