Origins of Wednesday civ: My sweet impeachable you

On the one hand, these seats were not

cheap. On the other, you're right, it

may very well drag on into dinner. So

what are you wearing? You know, there

are bound to be cameras, and names'll

be taken. Suppose they want a number? 

Origins of Wednesday ciii: What do Democrats mean for Virginia?

Humane redistricting, anyone?

Just in case there's no back-

to-back national championship

or the people tire of winning.

Witness

What an enviable mind it must be, to guide one in truthful testimony of service as an American Ambassador under treacherous attack by the American President, and bring one through - bring one home - to an unimpaired vitality and peace within oneself, an inner world that is not touched by what an entire political Party wants one to suffer. A witness could take encouragement from someone so fine and honorable.

Marie Yovanovitch
Testimony to a Select
  Committee of the House
  of Representatives of
  the United States
October 11, 2019

Origins of Wednesday cii: Speaking through the dark

Most people who have friends in California

know people who are cut off from electric

power and are breathing smoke. I have an

arrangement with a friend of mine in the

area of the Point Reyes National Seashore,

to give him a telephone call every morning

at 8:00am Pacific, with the salient news.

The United States is without a sane Presid-

ent, and even without electricity or fire

safety, he tells me this feels like an emer-

gency. One could well imagine, except that

when one does have electricity and amiable

air, all kinds of deficiencies in other as-

pects of life slip into sociable deniabil-

ity. Living in the dark restores critical

thinking to its place in one's survival. 

I can hear, in my morning conversations on

the news with my friend in California, a

renascent clarity of candor combined with

a wholly unprecedented tone of diminution,

as if his rapport with place were broken:

When will you do something to stop this?

Game on

  I always know a game
  is interesting, if I 
  do not care who wins
  or know their names.

Suppose it were Friday clxxix: People are going to ask

People are going to ask, of course,
if I had been an American when the
President declared it to be a great
day for civilization, saving millions
of lives, to be banished from every
progressive movement in the Middle 
East at the expense of embedding Rus-
sia and stateless terrorism in a piv-
otal dynastic state in the region, in
league with Iran and in a new axis of
convenience with the sole Asian member
of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance.

I suppose I can finagle a letter from
my doctor, excusing me from vigilance.

Origins of Wednesday ci: Show me our progress

    I bet it's glorious.

Dartmouth Hall
Hanover

Search engine

  It just seems to me that a search

  engine is defined as much by dis-

  position as by denomination. Any-

  one thinking to sacrifice October

  to the misdirections of our head-

  lines has already chosen to watch

  but not to find the season's arc.

Triumph Scrambler