A Short Note After A Brief Hiatus

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There have been so very, very many hooks to get me writing on here. Actually, too many. Also sloth. ... So much sloth.

The reflecting pool for example. Just an incredible illustration of how crazy things have gotten; both in the government and in the discourse in general. But then again what more is there to say? Much less to read? The discourse is so very, very fucked and I see no

I have been torn between attempting to comment on the horrors of the day as they happen versus providing some background context on the steady descent into madness that has characterized our political press for the past 35 years or so. I have in fact chosen to do neither.

Am going to attempt to get started with some short notes both quotidian and "historical." I have little in the way of coherent thought these days, and much bile. but we shall see.