Three things for Sunday

[nwhiker]

1. Reading an absolutely terrifying book, _The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future_ by Stephen Marche. It's not without its problems (both sides are not the same and are not equal and opposite. They're waaaaay more crazy than we are, LOL), but it's scary nonetheless, in part, of course, because I'm not sure we're not headed for a complete and utter catastrophe.

2. Perry and Linnea were down this weekend, which was wonderful.

3. What was not wonderful, and indeed really hurt a lot... We had to get our ballots in, there was just school levy stuff on the ballot. Linnea asked us to explain what this all meant, we did, and we announced her intent to vote against the school levies, basically, she hated school, hated her teachers, hated the fact that so much of the 'nice'things at school were geared towards the honor students, and all others were excluded etc. She said as far as she was concerned the schools could rot in hell. I started to cry (she yelled at me for that) and tried to explain to her what having public schools meant etc, but the reason I was crying was that... my poor baby girl had been so miserable at school that she was sounding like a pissed off selfish old Republican. We did our best, we really tried. Online school was truly a blessing for her, she was so much happier, but I'll never not feel bad that we insisted that she had to graduate from high school. I don't know how she ended up voting.

And a quick little 4th thing: Bluetooth is Loki's protocol.