Electricity has been in and out of my neighborhood since Saturday. This morning (3.18.25) it went out in what looked like a final way. I'm posting from McDonald's...
Disasters
How was your weekend? Mine was stormy. Rain pounded on the roof; wind tore limbs off trees. I went out to burn the trash, looked at the things that were flapping and blowing about, and thought "Nobody should strike a match in this weather! I wonder what this is the Edge of?" After taking the trash back inside, I even tried to Google who had the big bad storm this weekend--no use; the Internet was "down" much more than it was "up." Had to wait for a North Carolina correspondent to post about the big bad storm that activated post-traumatic stress memories of the hurricane that hit them last October. It may be years before people in western North Carolina can enjoy a storm properly.
For one family near Brevard, it seems, the weekend's storm was actually worse than the hurricane. They were living in a trailer house. Have you ever been in a house when a big tree limb hit it? Lights going out, roof collapsing, water pouring in, even windows breaking from the strain while you scrambled to clear your belongings out of the wrecked part of the house? A trailer house is not built to take that kind of shock. The wet wood goes right down through it. And in this particular trailer house, the tree fell right down onto the beds where the two sons, ages 11 and 13, were sleeping. Both boys were killed.
So now this young couple can't even sleep in their car while they look for another trailer house. The car was crushed, too. And all the disaster relief funds in North Carolina have been overburdened already. If you feel moved to help these bereaved parents survive the storm, their neighbors organized a GoFundMe for them:
In any case, Nephews...if you ever feel a need to live in a trailer house, don't park it under a tree.
Politics
Not only for Florida...
We need more heterogeneity in these United States, anyway. How are people going to be motivated to take day trips if every town is like every other town? In diversity is our strength. We need to affirm that, if "zoning" that deliberately attempts to segregate people on different income levels, e.g., or non-cash payment without an extra fee for the seller's inconvenience, or not having an incentive for consumers of snacks and drinks to return containers, is tolerated in one town, that in no way implies that it needs to be considered in the town up the road.
On a different political note, this conservative writer, showing the limitations of his male brain, blames "feminism" for what he then proceeds to argue are "liberal," meaning left-wing, behavior patterns that are likely to be associated with expressions of unhappiness...
Even the confused boy's name...looks like "jocks" or "jokes" but is properly pronounced more like "jerks." No wonder he is bitter.
But seriously...if you think campaign mudslinging like "Trump is Literally Hitler!" means anything, if you expect government to make your personal life better, if you're doing what makes babies but you don't want the babies, if you're not happy with or about your family, if you're quarrelling with your ancestral faith, then (regardless of whether you consider yourself male, female, or something else, and of how you feel about that) you are well and truly in the soup, these days. With a set of beliefs and behaviors like that, nobody could be happy. An unfortunate lot of people who have that cluster of beliefs and behaviors call themselves feminists so it's possible to say that a lot of people who call themselves feminists are unhappy. But feminism is not what they're unhappy about.
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