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Hey, we missed a week! It’s bound to be a bit longer. Anywho, here’s what we managed to read and do during the past week and a much longer of things we didn’t do but wished we had! Thanks for reading!
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Take a stroll through Festivuses past at Ye Olde Blogge. Learn about the history of the holiday, the traditions, the food, the decorations, and so much more! It’s #FestivusMiracle
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The cards speak for themselves! Download ’em and share ’em widely! And let us know your Festivus plans in the comments!
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Sad to say, but I’m overwhelmed with IRL stuff and can no longer maintain the pretense of blogging on a regular schedule. We’ll be back on or about Saturday 18 December! See y’all then.
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La Petite Fille has her first dose of the vaccine and a workable game plan to get her other doses and the rest of her vaccines updated! Otherwise, Ye Olde Blogge is just holding on during this crazy school year. Through it all we managed to read some good stuff to share.
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Every election cycle, the GQP drums up some racist dog whistle to seduce the middle-class suburban voter with, accuse Dems of socialists, and claim credit for the things they haven’t done. The Dems stumble and fumble their messaging. Why can’t the Dems ever learn?
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The first of a two-part series on examining the reasons Americans don’t vote for politicians that support the issues they tell pollsters they support. Abortion is a good case study. Part two looks at the psychological reasons people don’t.
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Join Ye Olde Blogge in commemorating Shirley Chisholm’s life and legacy! Commit to voting rights! Commit to mass peaceful protest! Post about Chisholm’s life and legacy on her birthday.
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It was a busy week, so not much to report… not much interesting, anyway. We’ve figured out a solution to trypanophobia but not for jokes about the omicron variation and lots of reading recommendations.
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Should the US make like the Beatles and break up or the Stones and stay together? Which is better for us as a country and a world? It’s a tough question.
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It was a busy week with the Cambodian Water Festival, 10 KM training, going down to 82.5 KG, the anniversary of JFK’s assassination, Tamir Rice’s murder, Robert Johnson’s recording, and lots and lots of pretty fascinating reading! It was quite a week at Ye Olde Blogge!
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When you compare the behavior of the rank and vile to the symptoms of trauma survivors, they look pretty much the same. Suffering from mass psychosis has traumatized MAGA Nation. Their anger and outrage will only get worse.
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Join Ye Olde Blogge in wishing President Biden a happy birthday. I hope all his birthday wishes come true!
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Festivus is fast approaching and we’ve all got to get through the Airing of Grievances and the Feats of Strength without actually coming to blows with our MAGA relatives. Luckily, Ye Olde Blogge is here with some timely advice on how to cope with your favorite drunk rage uncle.
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We’ve had a big week in which Ye Olde Blogge celebrates World Kindness Day by rescuing a sparrow and encouraging sixth graders. And, we managed to read from our blog roll, AGAIN!
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Sociologist, Arlie Hochschild, describes MAGA Nation and the Insurrectionists as the elite of the left behind. I describe them as seeing democracy as too much of a risk that a Black or Brown will be elevated, minority-rule autocracy is a sure thing.
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White people have an inner racist. That inner racist needs to be tamed by direct confrontation by its owner. Most white people don’t have what it takes to do so, so they vote based on racist dog whistles like CRT and defund the police. Simple as that.
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We’ve had a really really big week here! Started training for the Angkor Wat Half Marathon, found normally white fonts turned red, got a mention over at MBRU, and I’m spread way too thin! Read all about it!
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Time recently published an article outlining out Jeffrey Sonnenfeld marshalled America’s CEOs to oppose the Republican authoritarian power grab from the Big Lie to the 6 January Insurrection to voter suppression and nullification laws, but their enthusiasm for that opposition has fractured and grown confused just like our electorate’s has.
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Suburban white voters once again powered a GQP victory seduced by the sweet Siren song of racist dog whistling. Maybe we really should just divide ourselves into red and blue countries and dissolve the United States.
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