Power Corrupts; Roman Collapses;

 I have been trying to avoid politics, putting the effort into my writing, but this is too much to avoid: Indiana Pastor’s Son, Connected to Church with GOP Leaders, Charged in Child-Exploitation Case. It is also something I cannot help, but post here. Time has come for a change. Privilege breeds arrogance. “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Indiana has given much too much power to the Republicans.

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Rory Stewart and Mary Beard on Power and Politics:

Why Did The Roman Empire Collapse? With Mary Beard:

Prunus Alleghaniensis - Grist Christina Craigo

Jodie Foster & Robert Downey Jr. | Actors on Actors: two great talents talking to one another.

History - Semit people, Caravaggio (one of my favorite painters); the Dutch Libel, General Schofield, and Christopher Marlowe, Julius Caesar by way of Mary Beard.

Did the Irish really save civilization (it being 25 years since I read the book, I cannot remember well enough to criticize the criticism)

Silliness (I do find the presenter for Casually Comics is a hoot, so into what she is doing that even if I am not so interested before, I am at the end.)

Let us see what was today - church, grocery shopping, dropping off a box of clothes to CC, then back to here. I fixed an early dinner while I worked on revising “Blue Eyes Flashing Doom” into “A Heart’s Judgment Judged”. That took hours. Then I went onto finding places for submitting my pieces. You can see how long that took by the number of videos above - they played in the background.

 “A Heart’s Judgment Judged” went to Boulevard Short Fiction Contest and Hudson Review. “Agnes” went to Thin Air. “Thomas Kemp Went Missing” to Underside Stories. 

A lot of time spent with little output. 

Tomorrow, revise another story, and another list of possible outlets for submissions. A political meeting tomorrow night. If I get the revisions and submissions done, a movie tomorrow night. Or Tuesday.

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