Seems like most gatekeeper journalists are white and middle class. When they imagine political violence, they probably imagine it being done for them rather than against them.

The Rusty Scupper cameo was nice.

my favorite Kris Kristofferson story remains this one townhallmeeting.org/2021/01/18/h...

My friends and family who support Trump and vote Republican may still be my friends and family, but there's a level of unease with them I will never get past. They've revealed something about themselves that is really ugly and disturbing. I can never look at them the same way.

In the last 10 years, being a conservative Republican has gone from being a really bad moral and aesthetic decision, like emptying your kids' college fund to follow Staind on tour, to being a blacker than black mark against your soul, like selling your kids to fund your heroin habit.

Bluesky is a relatively safe space, so I'll say this here: I have some friends and family who are conservative, Trump-supporting Republicans. And they'll go on being my friends and family. Even though I'm a social democrat and a Democrat. But it's hard.

Looking ahead to next week, probably another series with the red-hot Tigers, and then, if we win that, another series with the Yankees. Painful.

Just astonishing that some 44-47% of the US electorate is going to vote for a loudmouth dumdum who is openly a Putin stooge.

I jinxed 'em.

We need a laugher. One that's over before the 4th inning.