I'll be back to posting on a more regular basis soon, but I am trying to make sense out of all of it, first. I can't fully seem to "unknot" for myself just yet. Odd story: I now teach at the same school I went to for part of my undergraduate degree. On Wednesday, one of my former college professors hugged me in the cafeteria. This woman was the first person to make me think of feminism. She made me wonder about our culture and language, the messages given to every woman everywhere about what it means to be a woman. Seeing me, she said, made her need to have a feminist celebration: historic numbers of women and pro-women people in Congress, Obama maintains his post, and all of the "rape thing" candidates defeated. Heck, Obama even defeated Justin Bieber! She was genuinely joyous. I want to be. There is a lot of good news for liberals, even if the race was a tight one. We should be celebrating and hugging in cafeterias, right?Still, something in all of this makes me nervous. Maybe it's the crash after a sugar high, but reading so much information about how Romney lost the women and that's why he lost the election. Romney lost the Latinos and that's why he lost the election. Romney lost the election and that's why the GOP needs to be revamped. My head is spinning just a little bit faster than the spin. I feel like there's another shoe somewhere just waiting to drop. In quiet places, you'll start to see who the GOP is blaming. I watched Fox for part of election night. Even before the election was called for Obama, the Fox crew was talking about how they had such "slim pickings" during the primaries. They were throwing Romney under the bus before there was actually even a bus. But, some of this will land on Gov. Chris Christie and his reaction to Obama during hurricane Sandy. Here are 5 excuses that are already circulating. Some of this is also Carl Rove losing his ever-loving mind with stuff like this. And he's not the only one. Hannity is also talking about getting the government you deserve one moment, and then this. This makes me worry. The bottom line, for me, is that a party like the GOP, looking this lost, can only be bad news. I know that they will come up with something, but I worry about what that might be. Maybe we should just watch some Rachel Maddow. She's got something good here.
November 9, 2012
Dénouement
denouement |ˌdāno͞oˈmäN|nounthe final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.• the climax of a chain of events, usually when something is decided or made clear: I waited by the eighteenth green to see the denouement.ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: French dénouement, from dénouer ‘unknot.’
I'll be back to posting on a more regular basis soon, but I am trying to make sense out of all of it, first. I can't fully seem to "unknot" for myself just yet. Odd story: I now teach at the same school I went to for part of my undergraduate degree. On Wednesday, one of my former college professors hugged me in the cafeteria. This woman was the first person to make me think of feminism. She made me wonder about our culture and language, the messages given to every woman everywhere about what it means to be a woman. Seeing me, she said, made her need to have a feminist celebration: historic numbers of women and pro-women people in Congress, Obama maintains his post, and all of the "rape thing" candidates defeated. Heck, Obama even defeated Justin Bieber! She was genuinely joyous. I want to be. There is a lot of good news for liberals, even if the race was a tight one. We should be celebrating and hugging in cafeterias, right?Still, something in all of this makes me nervous. Maybe it's the crash after a sugar high, but reading so much information about how Romney lost the women and that's why he lost the election. Romney lost the Latinos and that's why he lost the election. Romney lost the election and that's why the GOP needs to be revamped. My head is spinning just a little bit faster than the spin. I feel like there's another shoe somewhere just waiting to drop. In quiet places, you'll start to see who the GOP is blaming. I watched Fox for part of election night. Even before the election was called for Obama, the Fox crew was talking about how they had such "slim pickings" during the primaries. They were throwing Romney under the bus before there was actually even a bus. But, some of this will land on Gov. Chris Christie and his reaction to Obama during hurricane Sandy. Here are 5 excuses that are already circulating. Some of this is also Carl Rove losing his ever-loving mind with stuff like this. And he's not the only one. Hannity is also talking about getting the government you deserve one moment, and then this. This makes me worry. The bottom line, for me, is that a party like the GOP, looking this lost, can only be bad news. I know that they will come up with something, but I worry about what that might be. Maybe we should just watch some Rachel Maddow. She's got something good here.
I'll be back to posting on a more regular basis soon, but I am trying to make sense out of all of it, first. I can't fully seem to "unknot" for myself just yet. Odd story: I now teach at the same school I went to for part of my undergraduate degree. On Wednesday, one of my former college professors hugged me in the cafeteria. This woman was the first person to make me think of feminism. She made me wonder about our culture and language, the messages given to every woman everywhere about what it means to be a woman. Seeing me, she said, made her need to have a feminist celebration: historic numbers of women and pro-women people in Congress, Obama maintains his post, and all of the "rape thing" candidates defeated. Heck, Obama even defeated Justin Bieber! She was genuinely joyous. I want to be. There is a lot of good news for liberals, even if the race was a tight one. We should be celebrating and hugging in cafeterias, right?Still, something in all of this makes me nervous. Maybe it's the crash after a sugar high, but reading so much information about how Romney lost the women and that's why he lost the election. Romney lost the Latinos and that's why he lost the election. Romney lost the election and that's why the GOP needs to be revamped. My head is spinning just a little bit faster than the spin. I feel like there's another shoe somewhere just waiting to drop. In quiet places, you'll start to see who the GOP is blaming. I watched Fox for part of election night. Even before the election was called for Obama, the Fox crew was talking about how they had such "slim pickings" during the primaries. They were throwing Romney under the bus before there was actually even a bus. But, some of this will land on Gov. Chris Christie and his reaction to Obama during hurricane Sandy. Here are 5 excuses that are already circulating. Some of this is also Carl Rove losing his ever-loving mind with stuff like this. And he's not the only one. Hannity is also talking about getting the government you deserve one moment, and then this. This makes me worry. The bottom line, for me, is that a party like the GOP, looking this lost, can only be bad news. I know that they will come up with something, but I worry about what that might be. Maybe we should just watch some Rachel Maddow. She's got something good here.
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I thought the Rachel Maddow was brilliant!
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