tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post1366875703724119148..comments2024-03-28T10:05:08.122-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: The Bold, Enduring Menace of Courtship Is Upon Us Like the PlagueUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-54324656945419811922019-04-29T08:08:19.171-04:002019-04-29T08:08:19.171-04:001)in 2016 i voted for hillary - bernie told me to ...1)in 2016 i voted for hillary - bernie told me to - given where i lived, the electoral vote for our state was never in doubt, so my vote for hillary was an act of loyalty to bernie<br /><br />2)spouse and self have been watching the k-drama 'great queen seondeok', in which it is made clear that statecraft requires killing people from time to time - the difference is who and how and why<br /><br />3)at this point - given the clintonista determination to burn bernie to a crisp - i find myself wondering if the least objectionable candidate and most plausible president might be seth moulton - congressperson, semper fi, harvard alum, whose daughter emily will be two at the time of the 2020 election<br /><br />4)"how's your preferred candidate?" "compared to what?"<br /><br />5)i wonder if i'll read eric liu's* <b><i>you're more powerful than you think: a citizen's guide to making change</i></b>- currently on the blogroll right here, even as i type<br /><br />https://blogternator.com/2019/04/29/youre-more-powerful-than-you-think-a-citizens-guide-to-making-change-eric-liu/<br /><br />*his wikipedia bio is interesting - and there are three books by him in the my local public library system<br /><br />6)today's poem by ashbery is full of vague allusions - one way of dealing with that is to enjoy <b> the fun of puzzling then moving on</b><br /><br />6b)on the other hand, sometimes the concrete can be quite satisfying, as in my own favorite self-authored haiku, now dubbed "walking down the buffalo, ny sidewalk on a snowy evening"<br /><br /><i>white nights are bright nights<br />snowflakes slant through street lights and<br />muffle my footsteps</i><br /><br />6c)interpretive note - this was written during the last quarter of the twentieth century when 'snowflake' had not yet become a term of abusemistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-43179542567548790492019-04-28T18:15:54.371-04:002019-04-28T18:15:54.371-04:00"Grinder rests.""Grinder rests."davidlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04754707934311038544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-30343507748412956912019-04-28T11:13:32.701-04:002019-04-28T11:13:32.701-04:00One never survives the grinder ... until finally t...One never survives the grinder ... until finally they do. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00213561142165831386noreply@blogger.com