Tag: Joe Biden

The times, they are, um, interesting

On By MezzoSherriIn Flagrantly Feminist, Politics and PolicyLeave a comment

Yeah, this title IS a weak parody of a famous Dylan song. It’s also a callback to one of those commonly-known, exoticized adages:

May you live in interesting times.

NOT an ancient Chinese curse (Quote Investigator, Grammar Party)

I still haven’t decided how much reportage I’ll be doing on JALC about the 2024 election hellscape-slash-battle for the soul of the nation. The older I get, the more aware I am of how minimal my “insights” are about these sort of political things: and so there seems minimal value to me going all pundit-like on here.

However, with the sort of momentous week like we’ve just had, I simply can’t restrain myself.

Still life with steno pad, reading glasses and blue highlighter. Written at the top of the pad: Changes ahead"
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Time passes

On By MezzoSherriIn Life-Long Learning, Memoir, Meta-Blogging2 Comments

It has been—

[Looking at calendar]

—3 weeks since I last write here on JALC.

[Allow me to pause one more moment to turn said calendar over to February.]

A calendar showing the first 2 weeks of February 2021.

Now there’s a few main reasons for my radio silence. First and most prominently, I was on deadline for a stretch. An inevitable part of life for the non-profit grants professional. Especially one as prone to procrastination and over-scheduling as I can sometimes be.

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Let’s call a thing a thing

On By MezzoSherriIn Politics and Policy, Pop Goes the Culture, Topics of Study4 Comments

This is not the second election post I was planning to write: the post focusing on the “second lens of analysis” I had in mind on Sunday is still in process. However, more current events are demanding attention today.

As the post-election post family is built, I’ll put the cross-links here:

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A friend of mine texted me this morning with a brief question:

Can we call it a coup now?

Yes. Yes we can.

I mean the jury is still out about how successful this coup will be, or even how whole-heartedly Cheeto POTUS is really working towards this goal. Nevertheless, the appropriate language to describe the administration’s obstructionist behavior around the presidential transition is to call it—at bare minimum—an attempted coup.

Close-up of a protest sign reading "Error 404: Democracy not found."
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