Post election disconnected thoughts

It's been kind of strange the last week or so. We won, Dems have the majority in both houses. Repugs are on the run and Bush remains delusional. Poppy, et al, have been called in to wipe Jr's ass. And, I am as happy, as happy can be.

Pelosi will be the new Speaker of the House. And, she's testing her political clout by not only endorsing Murtha, but by calling in her chips to get him elected. I heard today that Murtha has some serious ethical issues involving his brother, a Washington lobbyist for a defense contractor, who was successful in getting some military contracts that Murtha voted on. I kind of feel sick about that. And, it makes me wonder.

And, Ned Lamont. After reading Tim's Kos diary about the Democratic support that Ned did not receive, I wonder why. Especially Obama's failure to help out in a campaign so supported by the people of Connecticut.

So, I wait and I watch.

To be continued..........

It's the birthday of the novelist and short-story writer Mary Gaitskill, (books by this author) born in Lexington Kentucky (1954). She had a difficult childhood. Her parents moved around a lot, and she never felt like she fit in anywhere. When she was 15, she was kicked out of boarding school. A psychiatrist recommended that her parents have her committed to a mental hospital. She ran away from home, but her parents tracked her down and had her hospitalized anyway. She was released after two months, and at the age of 16 she took off to San Francisco to live on her own.

She supported herself as a stripper and occasional prostitute until she had saved enough money to go to college, where she studied journalism. And she began writing short stories. When her first collection Bad Behavior came out in 1988, it got a lot of attention for examining the lives of prostitutes and drug addicts and sadomasochists. She said, "My experience of life as essentially unhappy and uncontrollable taught me to examine the way people, including myself, create survival systems ... for themselves in unorthodox and sometimes apparently self-defeating ways. These inner worlds, although often unworkable and unattractive in social terms, can have a unique beauty and courage."

Her novel Veronica came out in 2005, and many critics have called it a masterpiece.

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