I won’t be someone who sticks his head in the sand and keeps his mouth shut so privileged people can be comfortable with their ignorance.
Thanks to Torkelson for his hit in the bottom of the 9th, the Tigers swept the White Sox, 4-3. They are now 5-4 for the season. Not looking bad. Having more wins than losses is always promising.
So, the Tigers were swept by the Dodgers. Then they won two out of three games against the Mariners. Now they’ve swept the White Sox. Tomorrow, they play the Yankees.
Life is better when it’s baseball season.
So, I was just on Tobias Buckell‘s website. I’d gone by there a few times over the last few weeks, and it was pretty much gone, with a notice telling us that a new site was coming soon. Well, it’s back now, and with a whole new look, and sounds like he intends to use his blog more regularly, like he was back in the old days.
I need to move away from social media. I’m always trying. I try to restrict my usage of social media, to just going on there for a few specific reasons and then getting the hell out of there. But I constantly go on social media because I can’t resist the urge to say something that’s on my mind (which is not one of the specific reasons), and what usually happens is I get sucked into some other crap and end up wasting a lot of time.
I have a nice website that my brother built for me. It has not seen much use over the last few years. I should use the blog here when I have something to say, instead of social media. I going to give it a try, anyway.
I’ll probably still go on social for the few specific reasons. For one thing, Jonathan Maberry recently started a weekly “Ask Me Anything” livestream on Facebook and I enjoy participating in that, so that’s one reason I’ll still be going on social media.
Spring is here again, though it doesn’t quite feel like it yet.
I have seen the movies. I especially like the newer movie. I wasn’t crazy about the older movie. And now I’ve read the book. What a fine story it is. The characters were believable, and I liked the dialogs.
True Grit, by Charles Portis, is a western. Mattie Ross wants justice for the murder of her father and she hires Rooster Cogburn to help find the murderer, Tom Chaney. They are joined by Laboeuf the Texan and become a posse of three.
Don’t forget that the Deaf and People with Disabilities matter. Too often, People with Disabilities are left behind. We’re not even thought of. We’re very often the first people hurt by fascist governments, and no one knows it.
I expect that the Trump regime will mean books like Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl will disappear from American libraries, schools and bookstores. But MAGA morons are okay with that. They want to rewrite history and live in denial of what they voted for. I’m disgusted with the people in my life who voted for Trump, again, for selfish, ignorant reasons.
Anne Frank was 13 when she went into hiding with her family and four other people. It was eight people in small rooms, hidden behind a bookcase in a factory. They called their hiding place The Secret Annex and they survived there for two years, unable to go outside, even for a minute, because the risk of being seen and captured was extremely high.
(While I’m writing my review here, about to start the next paragraph, my brother sent me this: “Demonstrators wave Nazi flags outside local theater performance of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ in Michigan”. That was last night, in Michigan, where I’ve lived all my life. They shouted “Heil Hitler! Heil Trump!” MAGA morons, this is what you voted for, and you know it.)
They had to hide simply because they were Jewish. I think most people know that the Gestapo eventually found them. All eight of the Secret Annex residents were sent to concentration camps, where everyone except Anne’s father, Otto, died.
I thought I would have a better review, one with better flow, but I’m too angry. Nazi Germany happened because people supported Hitler for all the same reasons people are supporting Trump.
