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So Far Right Provocateur Charlie Kirk Has Been Shot

This is so bad. I loathe the man, but I want him disgraced and humiliated, not killed. No one, not even this smug SOB, deserves to be shot. Even though the worst angels of my nature are saying "Let the big-headed sonuvabitch leave us permanently, and take his place in one of the circles of Hell," I'm trying to kick those angels to the curb, so as to invite the better angels in for tea.

No one deserves to be shot.

I hate saying it, but it's true.

Also, you just know what's going to happen now: more fascist messaging and meldtowns on the far right - and more fascist thug clampdowns for the rest of us.

I'm dourly amused at the fact that That Man is offering thoughts and prayers for Charlie.

I'll probably amend this post as we learn Kirk's actual status, but for now, this is all I can say.

New Rx, Who Dis?

Since Aug. 24 - check, yes it was Aug. 24 - I've had a lot of living. A lot.

Let's see: I saw my shrink, and he put me on Rexulti (I usually prefer talking about drugs with their actual name, but I'm still learning how to say brexpiprazole without looking at how it's spelled) to see how it would work. He gave me some samples. Damned if it didn't do the trick. The drug isn't a panacea, but what it does is let me look at things a tad more logically. It kind of allows me to say "one step at a time, woman. It's OK to do life like that."

I had a couple of follow ups with him; he checked to see if I was still able to sleep, and that my eating habits hadn't done me wrong. I was fine, so he wrote me a prescription for it.

( Non-triggering medical fun below )

So I've yapped on at length about Fun With the American Medical System. I should end with a couple of nice things.

1. I'm going to meet some of the folks I've met over the Couch Crew discord channel on the 25th, We're meeting up for a movie double header with some Korean food in between a KDrama movie and then a movie about the BTS Wings tour. I know next to nothing about BTS, but as that band was indirectly responsible for me discovering all of my current obsession, I figure I'd best learn, and probably I'll enjoy it.

2. On the 17th, I turn 70. Yay! Actually, yay! Fewer years ahead than behind me, but still, a few more years in which to work hard on being happy and making people I love as happy as possible.

3. Oh, and this picture is of the new chair that I've been able to sit in without pain - WITHOUT PAIN DEAR LORD WHAT IS THIS NO-PAIN THING - an old, very heavy wooden office chair that we found in a kinda-going-outa-business secondhand office furniture place. (There's a funny story about it, but that must wait for another post because this one is already too damn long.) This was taken before we put wheels on the legs since the original ones were long gone. We had to find heavyweight casters and Bob blistered his hands getting then onto the legs, because the wood was almost impenetrable, and I love him for yet another reason.

So there you have it. Happy Thursday/Friday

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