seanessay.com In endeavours to improve our situation, we should never despair Thomas Jefferson, 1819 “Hey, how ‘bout them voters?” Former President Donald Trump was re-elected on November 5, 2024. Now what? Naturally there will be time spend on reactions such as fierce accusations, or drawing one’s dark curtains to go on a beer binge. That’s fine. […]
Quotation for America’s New Morning, November Six
seanessay.com We have always been at war with Eastasia. Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
Beneath the Museum of The Regiments
seanessay.com I don’t have survivor guilt because I am grateful God has a purpose for me. We were soldiers once… and young. Now, twice a week I support a volunteer archivist. Approaching the Museum of the Regiments, in the cold autumn air… I hear again quiet forlorn radio voices in the night. I smell machine […]
Being Part of the Solution to Social Media
Headnote: The nation of Finland seems willing to say that social media can be fake news (link) On one of my favourite blogs the host abandoned twitter about the time that platform began having blue checkmarks for special commenters. Someone who was obviously not part of his ongoing blog community, and didn’t know that history, […]
How President Trump First Transitioned into Power
seanessay.com Although best-selling author Michael Lewis grew up before the age of internet outrage—which the public finds so attractive—he is willing, writer-wise, to “show not tell” outrageous things about Donald Trump, shortly before and after Trump took office. What a moron. Trump I mean, not Lewis. The US has a law that, between the November […]
A Farm Wife, a Banshee, and a Powerful Old Man
Yesterday is relevant again… My favourite Canadian National Film Board movie is a story only six or seven minutes long, in black and white—and it stabbed. Not a story for me to see at bed time, not unless I have a stiff drink at hand, not unless I want to stagger up out of a […]