Thanksgiving.
Even with the Steelers’ game cancelled, there’s still games in Detroit and Dallas.
I actually saw an interesting story on this.
The AFC game for tonight was cancelled, so it’s very old-school today. One intra-conference game in Dallas, one cross-conference game in Detroit.
I do like the old-timey NFL franchises still seeking Super Bowl success — Lions, Cardinals, Browns.
So. Thanksgiving. What am I thankful for?
- Being married to the right partner. She and I do work well together, even if we sometimes disagree; even on big issues. She’s not going to be at all happy about the SCOTUS ruling that came down while we were in bed.
- Financial well-being. I don’t know how much of a bonus I’ll get from my job this year, and I don’t care. I’m not working to scrape by enough to get us through the month, keep us insured, etc.. I cannot describe how relieving that feeling is, even more knowing that we did it together.
- Being somewhere where I can get decent medical care. When I moved up here, that, alone, would have been a selling point. One of the few after the government’s response to the pandemic with a 99.something percent survival rate killed off most of them. Not that I partook often, but at least I was in close proximity. Would I liked to have taken my wife out to dinner for our tenth anniversary last month? Absolutely. Even if it meant a cab ride through the shoddily-coordinated Black Lives Matter Plaza? Yep. Whatever. Is that even really possible, now? No. Will the place I was intending to go be there? I’ve got my doubts. Kennedy had a monologue on Monday about removing what she termed “qualified immunity” from politicians whose lockdowns have unintended consequences. She was a big off on the term, there, it should be “sovereign immunity,” but I do like her argument’s general thrust. If politicians were accountable at somewhere other than the ballot box, they might make a lot fewer laws that negatively affect, sometimes kill, people. There’s long been a push to expand personal liability for corporate executives who do bad things; why not add politicians?
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I mentioned this above. Whether you believe in a higher power or not, it’s pretty clear that this is a basic thing that humans do. Yes, there may be a few who can do it in solitude, but most people want feedback and interaction.
Cutting that off, something that is explicitly protected in the Constitution, isn’t going to work.
There will be violence. As it should be.
But today is going to be football, food, and calling family for Jitsi meets, etc.
Back tomorrow.