Exclusively Disordered!

The House GOP's "Dear Santa" letter for their prospective budget can be boiled down to the following:

1. Let children go hungry.
2. Let sick people die.
3. Shovel billions of dollars to people so rich they never wear the same pair of underpants twice.

Oh, and it'll bloat the debt by at least 20 trillion dollars over ten years.

So far it's just a wish list, a first pass at sweet delicious cruelty, but it's clear that the House GOP (Except Rep. Massie) prefers rich people's underpants over Americans living on the margins.

If this puts a burr under your saddle call your representative, 202-224-3121, and tell em Lefty says "Hi!"

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There's a new book called "Discarded" (Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz) which considers the fossilized legacy mankind will leave behind. This quote from the review left me startled and horrified:

"All of the stuff made by humans by 1950 was a small fraction of the mass of all the living matter on Earth. But today it outweighs all plants, animals and microbes and is set to triple by 2040." “This stuff is going to last millions of years, some releasing its toxins and chemicals into the natural world" says Gabbott, raising serious questions for us all: 'Do you need that? Do you really need to buy more?"

Lefty: We are, in essence, burying the earth alive in fast fashion and Xmas presents no one asked for or wanted.

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Yesterday I posted to Marketplace a piece of surplus Elfa shelving and got an almost immediate response. The lady, from a more affluent area of town than mine, said she was coming for it immediately so I kept an eye out for her while I made dinner. As the mushrooms sizzled I noticed a large white behemoth of an SUV slow to a stop in front of my house and then speed on.

I'm guessing SOMEone didn't appreciate the tenor of my yard signs.



The "deport Elon" sign is a leftover from a recent protest. I'm privately tickled that I may have made a Republican drive across town for no reason.

- Lefty