In this phase of the project, I have devoted a lot of space to the Presidential election, so you might expect me today to recap last night’s historic shit show. Actually, I didn’t even watch it and I warned you here yesterday not to do so. Instead, I tried to make sense of a French … Continue reading Experience

Recently some friends and I put together a Spotify list of 1990s songs and while randomly selecting mine, I threw into the pile the R.E.M. song "Bittersweet Me" from the New Adventures in Hi-Fi album of 1996. I hadn't really listened to the song in awhile, but something about it resonated. And since putting it … Continue reading Bittersweet Me

People seem to be vaguely happy that September 2020 is coming to a conclusion. I honestly feel like we might be in the eye of the hurricane right now and much worse shit is about to come down on us, making us wish we could return to the relatively happy days of this past month. … Continue reading Winding Down September

Having introduced Erich Fromm into the discussion last night, I think the following quote says so much about the way this election is unfolding and how Americans relate to one another: Still another form of neurotic love lies in the use of projective mechanisms for the purpose of avoiding one’s own problems, and being concerned … Continue reading Election and Projection

We, who are never-endingly confused by our own internal delusions, should not go looking for unknown external ones. It seems to me that it is excusable to disbelieve any wonder, at least in so far as we can weaken its ‘proof’ by diverting it along some non-miraculous way. I am of Saint Augustine’s opinion, that … Continue reading Self Knowledge

Today is one of those days where good news gets mitigated by bad news and vice versa. There's a lot of noise in the polls ... the good news seems to be that Biden is doing so well in the Great Lake/Upper Midwest states that Ohio and Iowa are looking increasingly positive for him. The … Continue reading How Desperate?

Today is going to be a first for me, I'm going to cover the same overarching topic on this blog and on my "I'm Think About..." movie analysis site. The matter of comfort zones is closely related to habits. Very often, the habits we adapt lay down the boundaries of the life we are comfortable … Continue reading Comfort Zones

One of my daily habits of late has been to write about the election in this space. It's a way of rationalizing the irrational and putting voice to my greatest fears about what's around the corner, in part to be a warning to people, but mostly to self soothe. I feel a little bit better … Continue reading Habits, Good and Bad

I'll start with the good news -- the Presidential race remains stable and highly Biden favorable at this point. Nate Cohn at the New York Times notes that one of the most substantial national polls showing movement towards Trump recently turned out to be a sampling anomaly (you can read the story for the details, … Continue reading Nightmares

Oh boy, it's getting harder to write about this election. As I mentioned last night, I have a pretty good sense of how this Supreme Court fiasco is going to play out. I guess I'm being a bit too confident that, once the Republicans have a clear Supreme Court majority in place, they won't use … Continue reading No Country for Moderation