But it seems every hieroglyph gets whitewashed eventually

[sovay]

Overnight the weather has gone subtropical: I fell asleep after it was light out and even then we lay sweating on top of the covers while the air came in like heat-shimmer through the window fan and the cats tried to melt themselves into the hardwood. I have the blinds drawn; I'm drinking cold water even though it makes my teeth hurt. We need to get our air conditioner out of the storage unit and fast.

The twenty-four-hour news cycle has become more like twenty-four frames per second. Yesterday 45 claimed that "no politician in history has been treated more unfairly" (to which I found myself responding on Facebook, "Definitely not any of the asssassinated Presidents of the United States") while today he invokes witch hunts, of which again there has never been a greater victim than himself. I saw a macro of Joan of Arc last night: "Bitch, please." [edit] Points to the representative from Salem.

Here's what I hope: that Robert Mueller is honest, and good at his job, and has security who are the same.

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[davidgillon]

Our weather did something similar yesterday. It started out the day pouring, so I was really glad when the rain stopped just before I had to dash out to get my prescription filled. Emphasis on the 'had to' as at that point I was 12 hours past the theoretical expiration of my last opioid patch. But not only was it suddenly shirt sleeve weather, it had turned incredibly humid. And that was when inadvertent cold-turkey decided to knock my body's ability to regulate my temperature offline. Fun it was not.

I managed to get a replacement patch on in the accessible loo at my regular lunch place, not helped by the manufacturer of the new generic patches I'd been given being so cheap they don't even nick the side of the foil envelope to help you tear it open - I ended up having to saw it open with my car keys!

I've made that same leaving it late mistake often enough to know I'd be okay in an hour, but that meant my temperature regulation didn't start working again until after I got home, and not even driving with the windows open was enough to cool me down. I got into the house, changed into shorts, and collapsed in a puddle on the couch for four hours. At which point the heavens opened again, and it's still pouring 24 hours later. Hope that wasn't our entire summer!

As for 45, there's something very disturbing about watching a grown adult, never mind one in his position, throwing more tantrums than a 2yo spoilt brat!

[kore]

The twenty-four-hour news cycle has become more like twenty-four frames per second.

HAH!

I bet at this point there's a contest between aides keeping his Twitter away from him and aides pushing the phone into his hands. Like a weird kind of volleyball.

[ashlyme]

I'd lend you a cool grey British sky if I could, assuming you don't mind rain.

The Salem representative made me giggle. Fingers crossed for Mueller.

(Unrelated: I've read so many good things about Kate Tempest. Time to take a listen!)

[heliopausa]

Yes, about the news cycle having sped up to a blur. Talk about reaping the whirlwind!

[genarti]

One of my coworkers passed on a quip from a friend of his who's a tour guide in Salem: there's at the very least one American who's a greater victim of not only a witch hunt but very bad press besides, and that's Giles Corey.

[ethelmay]

On FB:

FORTY-FIVE: "No politician in history—and I say this with great surety—has been treated worse or more unfairly."

GABBY GIFFORDS: "Okay, player."

[gaudior]

Yesterday 45 claimed that "no politician in history has been treated more unfairly"

He never wanted this job. He never, ever wanted this job.

If it weren't for the people suffering and dying because of his decisions and influence, I'd be laughing.

What the hell, I will still laugh. But in a bitter kind of way.