She's doing the work of the saints.

Good graphic. Horribly sad but good at the same time.

This is the kind of visual WE CAN USE! It can (and should) be printed up and mounted on cardboard or poster board and used as a protest sign.

Indeed.

THAT kind of "civility" I can definitely get behind.

Rest In Peace, Harlan Ellison.

He was involved in two of my favorite sci-if entities: Star Trek and Babylon 5. He was a conceptual consultant on Bab and wrote the wistfully beautiful “City I the Edge of Forever” episode of the original Star Trek series. We called it the “Edith Keeler one”, that featured a fetching young Joan Collins as Kirk’s girl-du-jour.

I saw him on a picket line during one of the writers’ strikes, back while I was still working.

Neither could I, frogmarch. For the first time ever, also.

Let's see. BBC was running a "Star Trek Voyager" marathon for awhile. When that finished I found a whole bunch of "Whose Line Is It Anyway," on something called UP-HD (?) to take me through the rest of the evening. And then for overnight, the E channel had some "Sex in the City" back-to-backs - which I've gotta admit I've kinda gotten hooked on. Yeah, 20 years late, but I finally discovered it and it's a VERY guilty pleasure.

I CANNOT bring myself to watch any news right now. Just can't do it. There's NO good news. NO even potentially good news. We've just lost the Supreme Court for at least a generation. Which means a woman's right to choose WILL be done away with. Also, whatever's left of union rights. Voting rights. Gay rights. Civil rights! All that's gonna be gone. This is something the CONS have been wet-dreaming about for decades (ESPECIALLY that great liberation that came with the women's right to choose that they've hated from its outset), so they're NOT gonna be in any mood to compromise or accommodate. Not even Rachel and Lawrence, which are ordinarily must-see shows. Or at least Rachel Maddow's show by itself (if I have to budget viewing time). Not this week.

We will be a wholly different country than we knew and loved, by the time this demolition derby has ended. Shit - husband and I just moved up north, earlier this year - mainly to be closer to daughter and new son-in-law. Now I'm thinking we didn't go far enough. Like maybe - all the way up into Canada.

This "new" America is NOT "new and improved." We're actually going BACKWARDS.

Just a SHITTY week.

I think you're right, mr_lebowski.

SUCKS. SUCKS. SUCKS.







And this morning (Thursday the 28th) I'm hiding with one o those home improvement shows on HGTV. Can't bear to watch any news. It's all gonna be bad. Probably for awhile. I don't see ANYTHING to be optimistic about unless Robert Mueller has a rabbit or two to pull out of his hat. Hopefully.

Here.

My "lovely" week started at the crack o' dawn Monday morning, when I lost my favorite cat after an approximately 20-year love affair. And it's gone straight downhill since.

At least you know you're among friends and fellow sympathizers here.

Aren't things supposed to be picking up at some point? Where's that mythical pendulum that everyone talks about - that's inevitably going to swing back the other way? Things just look really grim right now. And yes, I'll keep fighting, too. But at the moment I'm pretty dispirited.

Welcome to DU, bthp223.

All I can say to you is that you're feeling lost - along with a LOT of us here. I've been down in the dumps all day. Haven't even watched the news. I just don't have the stomach for it. So as glum as you may feel, you're certainly not alone.

Neither am I. This has been a seriously grim day.

Started first thing Monday morning with the death of my favorite kitty. And astoundingly enough, it's actually gone DOWNHILL from there.