Letting It Ride Through Tuesday

 Back from 8 hours moving boxes of plastic ware. The back is hurting, even after a hot shower. I should walk down to McClure's, but I do want to do this. It is only to get more RC Cola. Two buses got me home, my feet want to stay here.

I finished a post started this morning from the Pretrial Detention journal, and did another this evening. That is enough of that.

I deleted a bunch of emails, again.

I did read How Canadians got their beloved breakfast cereal back for KH's sake.

There was an hour of The Bosses Just Don't Understand December. Now, I have music from YouTube.

Indiana Writers has posted its January Indiana Literary Events. All were in Indianapolis, or very close to it. No car, so no go for me.

E.J Dionne, Jr. wrote Democracy won 2022. Can it keep winning?. I like Dionne's writings, I like democracy, and I like what he wrote here:

The new House GOP majority, well to the right of the mainstream, has little interest in any legislation Democrats could vote for. It would much prefer to use debt ceiling and government shutdown threats to try to force deep budget cuts while passing a pile of symbolic, one-party culture war bills. The Republicans’ hope is to discredit Biden through nonstop hearings, plainly deeming it in their political interest to make Washington under a Democratic president look dysfunctional.

Biden and congressional Democrats must try to govern anyway. By offering a realistic legislative program in areas of popular concern — among them health care, housing and help to parents raising children — they could challenge House Republicans to join them or offer serious alternatives. Ideally, they’d get something done. At worst, they’d expose the GOP’s obstruction and investigative overreach.

There should be no compromising in the battle for U.S. democracy and voting rights. The broad middle of the American electorate sent a clear message that there is no rational reason to make voting harder, let alone wage a running battle against honest election administrators. Republicans should be pressed to choose: Trumpism or democracy?

And the world’s democratic nations should bear in mind that 2022’s advances could be reversed. The democracies must keep faith with Ukraine while understanding at home that freely elected governments are always on probation. Delivering for the common good is the only way to keep democracy on a roll.

The fight for democracy must go on. America is better than Trump and Trumpism.

Unlikely Stories has new stories. Check them out, please. I wish I had more time. The PO denying me a laptop for 9 months has left me way behind in production.

The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses published a new Calls for Submissions and its December 2022 Roundup of Member Magazines.

I have several places for possible submissions that I would like to get to tonight. McClure's is out. It is almost 9 pm.

Tomorrow I need to do some legal research, so I expect to be busy doing that after I get home.

BTO is playing now, and I think I will share "Let It Ride" with you:

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