This is good:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-unbearable-smugness-of-the-press-presidential-election-2016/
I worked outside on the last of cleaning things up after the tree removal and then on the truck, installing more cab lighting. As I did I listened to all but the final chapter of Robinson Crusoe and found I didn't remember the end of the book much at all. Very good, humorous, and instructive. I'll be sorry to see this book end.
I haven't felt at all energetic today so I came in about 11 a.m., just as Pam was leaving to do the grocery shopping, and watched a variety of news channels for a couple of hours while I did some computer work, including order some trim clips for the truck.
Listening to the pundits and several Democratic Congressional leaders has left me thinking, they just don't get it. The GOP now holds the governor's position in 33 states, the majority in both houses of Congress, and the presidency. I did not vote for Trump; just couldn't. I voted for Evan McMullin and hoped he would do well enough to snag part of the national election coverage. He didn't, and Trump's surprising win became the compelling story.
Yes, I am also concerned about how the man who spoke and acted so inappropriately during the campaign will speak and act once he's in the oval office. Hillary lost MI, FL, and other "battleground" states she was expected to take. (She only won 8 counties in MI.) Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, and Illinois are the only fly-over states she won. She took the three west coast states plus Nevada, and New England states, with no other east coast states going blue. The map of the country is very red across the vast majority of the country. That imbalance begs the question, why??
The residents of these states are not all - not even in the majority - misogynists, racists, or Bubbas. They are not bigots or uneducated and ignorant white males. They are unhappy, even angry at the changes they see forced on them by government, and by the deep sense that their elected representatives don't represent them. They see a political machine that is unresponsive, disconnected, and too often corrupt. They're tired of being told what they must and must not do by people who don't live anything like they do and don't face the problems and struggles they do.
And they'll line up behind someone they don't like, and maybe don't respect, if that man promises to be different, to listen, and to give them back what they feel they've lost - a sense of freedom from an intrusive govt. and core values and mores they hold dear.
One step forward, two steps back
I drove the truck into town this afternoon to get a 4x8 sheet of rigid foam insulation and two 2x6x8' boards, stopping for gas in Veneta on the way in.
The gas gauge that used to read full all the time now reads empty all the time. The ground wire took it from the former to the latter.
The lady in front of me who fell asleep at the green light got one honk of my horn, but it would give no more. Not so much as a weak bleat.
The truck simply will NOT start when up to temp. No combination of choke and throttle will get it to fire. Something with the carb is seriously off. Alas, with a truck that isn't running there's no way to know what the problem is.
Except that the moisture in the fall OR air (now, at 4 p.m. the humidity is at 96%) causes the choke and throttle cables to rust and stick almost overnight, so there's that.
And the line still leaks a drop of oil at the gauge on every trip.
The first decent offer buys this thing.
In the therapy department, Pam baked ginger cookies.
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