Jonesy

Corners ripped through stone

Your chords are

Tie-offs

Cornerstones

Anchors

Small parts of the many

Dependable

There when I need them

Namaste

uppity negro

Different time

Obama's ears

be a topic

not the shrill cry

what now is

uppity negro

dun know his place

I haven't heard of anyone proposing some sort of an on-line boycott...

I haven't heard of anyone proposing some sort of an on-line boycott in some form or fashion.

One could aim at Trump's Secretary of State #1 candidate, Rex Tillerman, ex-CEO, Exxon/Mobil.

We could go after Exxon, instead of doing more of the "sign and scream" parades, take some of their money away. Participants could boycot Exxon/mobil products like gasoline, deisel, and liquified natural gas for a week. Christmas week would be a nice choice.

I just haven't heard about anything like that. You?

#hope

Douglas John Douglas/Protest Page

@commander1958

+Douglas Douglas 

Go back and predict a Trump victory? This guy was twenty years ahead of the crowd

"The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for--someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots....One thing that isvery likely tohappen is that the gains made in the past forty years byblack and brown Americans,and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion....All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet."

Richard Rorty
Achieving Our Country
1998

read in the New Yorker Tech Issue 11/28/2016

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency









Go back and predict a Trump victory? This guy was twenty years ahead of the crowd

Jesse Can't Swim

Jesse Can't Swim

When JJ was running for president in 72, there was humor with the ridicule:

Jesse Jackson on a press boat in the middle of the Red Sea Dead Sea Mediterranean, whatever. He's on a boat with reporters, the pope and Netanyahu.

Pope's hat blows off away from the boat. Jesse hops out; walks across the water and hands the pontiff back his topdeck.

The headlines read: "Jesse can't swim."

Best science lesson ever:

If the Earth were a grape, the Moon would be 16 inches away.

The Sun - 163 yards away.

Jupiter - a little under half a mile away. 

The nearest star - 24,000 miles away, and the Great Andromeda Galaxy -- our nearest galactic neighbor in an unimaginably large universe -- one trillion miles away. If we were a grape. Which we are not. We are every calculation in this example times 250,000,000. My head just blew up again. 

Anyway, we are in a great place. Especially since it seems to be the only shelter between us and forever.

http://ssastros.org/grape.htm

Why I feel sorry for myself and how my therapist helped.

Why I feel sorry for myself and how my therapist helped.

I had a therapist who was a retired Israeli ship commander. He was tough but fair, I thought.

I went to him for a long time. First as couples therapy with my ex, and then for individual and finally group counseling. My attendance wore into years. There were many breakthroughs, but it was slow and time consuming. This was because I am a dick.

I decided to leave. I had been with this group for about five years. Nobody wanted me to leave, but I was committed.

The week after I left, my gun-toting, Israeli fighter called me up on the phone. At work. Unprecedented. Dean, who I was closest to in the group, missed my exit night because he had eaten cyanide and killed himself.

Uh, thanks for calling, dickhead. Why did I have to know this? How many ethics violations is he trying to ring up?

Oh, and he did tell me I would need counseling for the rest of my life. He didn't tell me I was a dick, which might have saved me a couple of decades of soul-searching.