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Here's Why We Grieve TodayI don’t think you understand us right now. I think you think this is about politics. I think you believe this is all just sour grapes; the crocodile tears of the losing locker room with the scoreboard going against us at the buzzer. I can only tell you that you’re wrong. This is not about losing an election. This isn’t about not winning a contest. This is about two very different ways of seeing the world. I post this because many of my friends are willing just to move on with their lives. Just another shift in the fortunes of life. They put on their boxing shoes and hope to dance like a butterfly until fortunes change again. I am not ready to do that.
"You can't demand freedom of speech and then say, but don't say bad things about me. You gotta be a grown-up and take your hits." George Clooney
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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Still processing, yeah I totally get that.
There will be a LOT of post mortems, and the fact is, people need to be allowed to run the numbers and figure out what went wrong.
I say it's a healthy thing for the most part but face it, a lot of people are shell shocked.
Like you, I am one of them.
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At times like these, it is important to read some very wise words by a very wise writer: We sometimes forget that colonialism was and is war, a war to control and own another country’s resources—meaning money. We may also delude ourselves into thinking that our efforts to “civilize” or “pacify” other countries are not about money. Slavery was always about money: free labor producing money for owners and industries. The contemporary “working poor” and “jobless poor” are like the dormant riches of “darkest colonial Africa”—available for wage theft and property theft, and owned by metastasizing corporations stifling dissident voices.
None of this bodes well for the future. Still, I remember the shout of my friend that day after Christmas: No! This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom. Like art. Toni Morrison Amen! 
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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Wow, go Toni Morrison.
No wonder she received so many honors.
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Garrison Keillor speaks for me: Trump voters will not like what happens next Alas for the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on this country will fall more heavily on them than anyone else. The uneducated white males who elected him are the vulnerable ones, and they will not like what happens next...
We liberal elitists are now completely in the clear. The government is in Republican hands. Let them deal with him. Democrats can spend four years raising heirloom tomatoes, meditating, reading Jane Austen, traveling around the country, tasting artisan beers, and let the Republicans build the wall and carry on the trade war with China and deport the undocumented and deal with opioids, and we Democrats can go for a long , brisk walk and smell the roses. It's theirs to run now. They have the Presidency and both Houses, so they can do whatever they want. We'll just watch.
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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"The Best of the Leon Russell Festivals" DVD
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I received a call from my wife today (I'm on the road) that our younger son is despondent regarding the election and his/the future. Our youngest sister is in shambles, according to my twin. Our elder son has been retweeting posts from acquaintances (some quite famous) who are nearly inconsolable. I thought I was the one taking it badly...
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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I think they all need to understand that sometimes things happen that are not in your control. In this case, they all need to disengage a bit. The Republicans are going to run the government for the next four years, and all they can do is watch (and maybe laugh?),
Sometimes you have to let other people have their turn, even if they are badly incompetent. They get to make their own mistakes, and all you can do is to feel sorry for them that their ideas are going to fail them so badly.
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...people need to be allowed to run the numbers and figure out what went wrong. Zeke and I told you from the very beginning: Hillary is extremely flawed. Yes she has an impressive resume of qualifications - but she is a very, VERY flawed individual. Sometimes in life, character trumps everything else - and many denied this reality.. 
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