Run along dumb beasts / Lest we become attuned to your patters / Begin to know your speech / To love you too much / And wish your home / Were not in the way of our commerce. -Joanne W. Bixby (November 16, 1931 – April 1, 2018)
"At the very least, spring budget planning is complicated. At its very best, it is a thoughtful exercise in creativity and courage. Like gardening, it is often not a pretty process..."
"...in the most recent episode, it’s become extremely easy to call 911 and to have him handcuffed and police escort him out of the school. And so it just becomes this practice of what’s easier versus what’s best.”
...The neo-liberal trap of believing that “our issue” is urgent and not equal to all others is one of the major errors of this era of umpteen flavors of ice cream and infinite download menus of distraction...
