Talking about San Francisco, talking about California (Update #4)

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Updates

  1. Originally published, February 13, 2021, 12:29 pm.

  2. February 14, 2021, 3:50 am, revised at 11:13 am:

    • I just got home. I had a ride to close enough to Washington, D.C., that I passed Dulles International Airport and signs for the Air and Space Museum on the way. Rides like this seem spectacular, but I wind up driving back empty. By the time I account for operating costs, it isn’t that great a day, and I’m up terribly, terribly late.

    • The text previously here has been moved, edited, and expanded in a new blog post entitled, “The second farce.”

  3. February 14, 2021, 11:13 am:

    • There is a new blog post entitled, “The second farce.”

    • As I was walking back from the garage where I keep my car to my apartment early this morning, I slipped on ice so slick I was momentarily perplexed by the question of how I would even get up—there was so little traction to be had.

      I’m still hurting this morning, not quite as badly, but still. It’s right on that threshold where I’m wondering if I should be calling a doctor.

      I missed a lot of work and dug deep into my remaining savings replacing tires, struts, and shocks, and then to keep myself afloat while the body shop repaired my car after some idiot backed into it. And it looks like the weather might be bad enough to keep me home tomorrow anyway. Taxes are coming up and I really can’t afford to take more time off.

      And that’s the thing. I’m well aware that this rideshare driving is ultimately unsustainable. The car gets totaled or I get hurt or I just plain get too fucking old to work anymore. I really don’t have the margin to just stop working.

  4. February 14, 2021, 12:29 pm:

    • Politico has more on the Democrats’ flip-flop on witnesses.[1] and I am now citing this in the new blog post entitled, “The second farce.”

    • I feel a little better after a hot shower. I think calling a doctor will not be necessary.

  5. February 14, 2021, 10:14 pm:

    • It looks like I’m going to be hiding out at home tomorrow. A major storm is moving in, predicted to dump prodigious quantities of snow and ice. I’m still recovering from the fall in the wee hours this morning, would prefer not to exacerbate those injuries, and would prefer not to wreck my car.

    • One of the wackier figures in Donald Trump’s orbit is a conspiracy theorist and lawyer, Lin Wood. He has published a complaint from the Georgia State Bar against him that weighs in at over 1,600 pages and requests an evaluation of his mental health. The complaint is marked confidential but Wood is using it to raise funds.[2]

San Francisco

There is a new blog post entitled, “The California nightmare.”

Julia Wick, “Talking San Francisco with the city’s new poet laureate,” Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2021, https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2021-02-12/tongo-eisen-martin-san-francisco-poet-laureate-essential-california

Donald Trump

The Senate voted to call witnesses in Donald Trump’s impeachment,[3] apparently in response to a story of Trump’s phone call to Kevin McCarthy,[4] then Democrats chickened out.[5]

Jennifer Haberkorn and Evan Halper, “7 Republicans vote guilty, but Senate acquits Trump in attack on Capitol,” Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2021, https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-02-13/senators-to-continue-questioning-likely-to-vote-on-impeachment-today

David Cohen, “Georgia State Bar seeking to discipline Lin Wood,” Politico, February 14, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/14/lin-wood-georgia-469015

  1. [1]Burgess Everett, Heather Caygle, and Marianne Levine, “Inside Democrats’ witness fiasco,” Politico, February 13, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/13/senate-democrats-impeachment-witnesses-468992↩
  2. [2]David Cohen, “Georgia State Bar seeking to discipline Lin Wood,” Politico, February 14, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/14/lin-wood-georgia-469015↩
  3. [3]Jennifer Haberkorn and Evan Halper, “7 Republicans vote guilty, but Senate acquits Trump in attack on Capitol,” Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2021, https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-02-13/senators-to-continue-questioning-likely-to-vote-on-impeachment-today↩
  4. [4]Jamie Gangel et al., “New details about Trump-McCarthy shouting match show Trump refused to call off the rioters,” CNN, February 12, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/trump-mccarthy-shouting-match-details/index.html↩
  5. [5]Jennifer Haberkorn and Evan Halper, “7 Republicans vote guilty, but Senate acquits Trump in attack on Capitol,” Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2021, https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-02-13/senators-to-continue-questioning-likely-to-vote-on-impeachment-today↩

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