Disasters - Mine Own and The Country's

 I have been running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Last night, I decided I needed to go to bed before 7 and get up around 3 AM. I pretty much did not that. So far, I have some of the refrigerator cleaned up, started pork and beans in the slow cooker, and got a few pages written for the last revision of "The Dead and The Dying". Now I am might get some time to work on this blog. I have an hour to do so, get ready for work and catch the bus.

Yesterday and Monday were short days at work. Monday, I paid part of my rent. I came up $490 short. The car rental turned out to have been harmful to the bank account. The deposit should be back in my bank by now; still, I needed to borrow to get the rest. While at the bank, I ran into someone from Highland, a 79 graduate, working as a teller. We did a little reminiscing. I see no one from high school for decades, and then there is someone working in a Muncie bank. I finally spoke with T2; that went better than expected. The car I returned on time. 

I got a text from CC about missing church on Sunday. I have not responded.

Yesterday, it was to the bank for routing information. After missing the bus. I also went to the Social Security office. My income from that is now $800 a month. I am not sure what that does to my budget. I know there will be no more car rentals until July when I go to the polygrapher.

I have given up Netflix for Tubi.

Book review as a short history lesson on the elites running America: Whatever Happened to the Power Elite? (The New Republic)

The Power Elite, of course, got its name in part from those who, Mills believed, chose to invoke national security concerns to justify their own agenda. He would likely be impressed by the increasing resistance to Trump among grassroots activists and a growing number of university administrators and faculty members, journalists, and law firms, but Mills was no political strategist—The Power Elite is not a prescriptive work—and questions remain about the most effective way to challenge the Trump administration’s trifecta of reaction, corruption, and naked greed. The Democracy Alliance—a network of megadonors formed in 2005 to coordinate political donations to liberal Democrats—never gained momentum, in part because it focused on short-term election cycles. Perhaps now is the time to forge an ongoing partnership between progressive activist groups, unions, and wealthy liberals who, appalled by Trumpism, recognize the need for both winning electoral battles and building an ongoing majoritarian movement for basic fairness, shared prosperity, and democracy.

About the other Emperor's new clothes: Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud Too (The New Republic ). The more I read about Musk, the more certain I am he is not the second coming of Thomas Alva Edison. He is just a grifter and delusion, and if the article is correct, trying hard to set up a surveillance government over the rest of us.

Let's see what else I can glean from the email.

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