{"id":3326,"date":"2020-11-26T08:52:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T13:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2020-11-26T08:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T13:52:04","slug":"twenty-six-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/26\/twenty-six-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-six"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thanksgiving.

Even with the Steelers\u2019 game cancelled, there\u2019s still games in Detroit and Dallas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I actually saw an interesting story on this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do like the old-timey NFL franchises still seeking Super Bowl success — Lions, Cardinals, Browns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So. Thanksgiving. What am I thankful for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. 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.<\/li>
  2. 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.<\/li>
  3. 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?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    News<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I mentioned this<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Cutting that off, something that is explicitly protected in the Constitution, isn’t going to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There will be violence. As it should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But today is going to be football, food, and calling family for Jitsi meets, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Thanksgiving. Even with the Steelers\u2019 game cancelled, there\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month","tag-nojomo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}