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I do get the point of defensive cynicism or preemptive defeatism, of people saying “It doesn’t matter what the FBI finds, they’ll confirm him anyway” or that the investigation is only a whitewashing, but it makes me want to scream and honestly it’s a borderline trigger because in my head its tone so vividly echoes every single sneering, smug, self-satisfied know-it-all I have ever known, going
Don’t care. Don’t hope. Don’t engage. Don’t try.
Also, y’all, we are in a timeline in which a week is a long time. Multiple Republican senators are actually still making waffling noises. We don’t know what the FBI investigation will find. A lot can happen in the next few days.
And I get it, I get wanting to protect yourself from grief and disappointment in advance. But I will probably be hiding everyone doing this on Facebook because I personally just cannot with it right now.
This isn’t over. Call your senators. If you don’t think they’re sympathetic to the credible sexual assault allegations part, talk about the fishy finances part, or the committed perjury in his confirmation hearings to the Circuit Court part.
And maybe he will be confirmed anyway, and it will be devastating, but I cannot go back to existing in a way where I just refuse to emotionally engage with the world.
So please don’t tell me to just go ahead and concede defeat.
Anyway, here’s a list of real things that have happened on local, state, national, and international levels since the 2016 election.
On this day in music history: September 30, 1978 – “One Nation Under A Groove” by Funkadelic hits #1 on the Billboard R&B singles chart for 6 weeks, also peaking at #28 on the Hot 100 on November 18, 1978. Written by George Clinton, Walter “Junie” Morrison and Garry Shider, it is the biggest hit for the R&B/Funk band led by George Clinton. Though featuring the same band members as Parliament, Funkadelic in this period differs greatly from its counterpart in the beginning. Incorporating the twin influences of Jimi Hendrix and Sly & The Family Stone, Funkadelic’s sound at its inception features a more guitar based psychedelic rock sound with R&B and Funk (with guitarist Eddie Hazel playing a vital role in this incarnation of the band), compared to Parliament’s more direct Funk and R&B based sound. As the 70’s go on, the band begins to move away from its earlier musical vision, falling more in line with the commercially successful formula established under the Parliament moniker, while maintaining an eclectic and funky edge. This is further aided by the additions of former Ohio Players keyboardist Walter “Junie” Morrison and a young guitar virtuoso named Michael “Kidd Funkadelic” Hampton to the band. Clinton, Morrison, and Funkadelic’s other guitarist Garry Shider collaborate on what becomes their biggest and best known song. The title track from their tenth album, “One Nation” is released as a single in late June of 1978, quickly becoming a smash on the dance floor and on R&B radio. The single is released in three variations, a 45 edited into two parts, the original LP version clocking in at just over seven and a half minutes, and an extended 12" mix running nearly eleven and a half minutes. The success of the single gives Funkadelic their biggest selling album in the US, spending four weeks at number one on the R&B album chart, and is certified Platinum. “One Nation Under A Groove” is certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.
Somebody in the Congress was caught editing Wikipedia to include Kavanaugh’s definition of “Devil’s Triangle.” Note that his definition has only been in use, by him, and only used by him, since he coughed it up on the fly to substantiate his lie during the committee hearing yesterday. This country’s leadership is a joke.
I keep seeing this but how does anyone think that the person who added that entry SPECIFICALLY MENTIONING IT AS A GAME BRETT KAVANAUGH LIKED wasn’t doing it to lampoon him?
Zebras by a termite mound in Okonjima, Namibia. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
Excerpt:
Nobody loves termites, even though other social insects such as ants and bees are admired for their organisation, thrift and industry. Parents dress their children in bee costumes. Ants star in movies and video games. But termites are never more than crude cartoons on the side of exterminators’ vans. Termite studies are likewise a backwater, funded mostly by government agencies and companies with names such as Terminix. Between 2000 and 2013, 6,373 papers about termites were published; 49% were about how to kill them.
Every story about termites mentions that they consume somewhere between $1.5bn (£1.1bn) and $20bn in US property every year. Termites’ offence is often described as the eating of “private” property, which makes them sound like anticapitalist anarchists. While termites are truly subversive, it’s fair to point out that they will eat anything pulpy. They find money itself to be very tasty. In 2011 they broke into an Indian bank and ate 10m rupees (then £137,000) in banknotes. In 2013 they ate 400,000 yuan (then £45,000) that a woman in Guangdong had wrapped in plastic and hidden in a wooden drawer.
Another statistic seems relevant: termites outweigh us 10 to one. For every 60kg human you, according to the termite expert David Bignell, there are 600kg of them. We may live in our own self-titled epoch – the Anthropocene – but termites run the dirt. They are our underappreciated underlords, key players in a vast planetary conspiracy of disassembly and decay. If termites, ants and bees were to go on strike, the tropics’ pyramid of interdependence would collapse into infertility, the world’s most important rivers would silt up and the oceans would become toxic. Game over.
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