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Everybody got up earlier than usual this morning, so we got breakfast and walk in before 11:30. Got over to the climbing gym with a friend whose significant other has been in Beijing, China for the past 10 days with the USA youth climbing team for a world competition. He told her it was so polluted that L.A.'s air seemed fresh by comparison. Very crowded streets, people pushing and shoving despite there being nowhere to go. Sounds like a "travel experience" I'd be glad to miss.
I finished The Chaneysville Incident last night. I'm perplexed by the murkiness of the ending, and more than little annoyed at the male protagonist's constant whinging insistence that his woman can never understand him completely since he's black and she's white. It's enough that he's male, for pete's sake, for her to have trouble understanding him! Overall I liked the novel, but wonder if the book group will have a quorem to discuss it, or be able to look away from the 24 hour horror reporting on New Orleans. I do hope someone extremely vocal keeps it in the public eye that Bush and Co. cut FEMA's funding, gutted it even, which helped to set up this situation in New Orleans and Mississippi. WATCH what Bush et al DO, don't listen to their oily words. Watch as Shrub pretends to lay guitar, acting like the morally vacant idiot that he is. See him fly over the disaster area, not having the balls to go on the ground and really experience it. Hear him ooze about how it must be doubly terrible down there, which he was viewing in safety and comfort from his cushy military jet. Yet somehow he will get credit for "doing something," although I truly doubt if he gives a flying fuck about all the people of color whose lives were most affected by Katrina. His administration didn't do anything to alleviate the poverty in N.O. or anywhere else in the country. He believes in "hard work," as if he ever did a lick of it.
Yick. Gonna give myself nightmares.
I finished The Chaneysville Incident last night. I'm perplexed by the murkiness of the ending, and more than little annoyed at the male protagonist's constant whinging insistence that his woman can never understand him completely since he's black and she's white. It's enough that he's male, for pete's sake, for her to have trouble understanding him! Overall I liked the novel, but wonder if the book group will have a quorem to discuss it, or be able to look away from the 24 hour horror reporting on New Orleans. I do hope someone extremely vocal keeps it in the public eye that Bush and Co. cut FEMA's funding, gutted it even, which helped to set up this situation in New Orleans and Mississippi. WATCH what Bush et al DO, don't listen to their oily words. Watch as Shrub pretends to lay guitar, acting like the morally vacant idiot that he is. See him fly over the disaster area, not having the balls to go on the ground and really experience it. Hear him ooze about how it must be doubly terrible down there, which he was viewing in safety and comfort from his cushy military jet. Yet somehow he will get credit for "doing something," although I truly doubt if he gives a flying fuck about all the people of color whose lives were most affected by Katrina. His administration didn't do anything to alleviate the poverty in N.O. or anywhere else in the country. He believes in "hard work," as if he ever did a lick of it.
Yick. Gonna give myself nightmares.
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