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Sad.

It couldn't be more awesome! GO Jeff & Sue!

Home. So exhausted but so encouraged and inspired! ABC News is saying that instead of the projected 70,000 people, we had instead a crowd of something like 750,000. Somebody needs to work on their estimating skills! Despite the MASSIVE crowd, I saw absolutely NO instances of violence, anger, or even peevishness! It was an energized, motivated, and festive atmosphere and damned if everyone wasn't terrifically kind to each other! People carefully parted when the fire engines needed to crawl through slowly, and many cheered for the firefighters and thanked them for their service. The fire engi

What a great experience for the young ones...democracy in action, and they get to see their parents as involved citizens! Hey everyone, march safe and strong and passionate, and remember to "go high". Like one of my march signs says, "We'll go high but we won't go away". I think we have to be in this for the long haul. Have a good day tomorrow. Take care of each other.

As a native of the OC (Fullerton), I salute you!

I'm going to the L.A. March. 70,000 expected. Yikes. But I'm excited to be going.

....to Donald Trump, in a friendly, civil, private meeting between just you two (Pretend you're Obama or something if it's hard to imagine not just swearing at him at the top of your lungs).... What do you wish you could say to him? I'll start.... in my head I see myself taking this twisted man by the shoulders in appeal, and explaining, "Donald, having enemies doesn't make you powerful, it just means you're an asshole." Why has no one explained this to him in 70 years of life?!! What genuine, serious thing would you want to say to him, if somehow circumstances allowed yo

I like it!

One more thought, with The Residents in mind....I think I'll refer to this new guy without the opening letters of his inaugural title. Makes a good deal more sense to me....not "President Trump", but Resident Rump. Now let's see how quickly we can remove him from the Residence.

This sounds like a plan I can get behind. And in the interest of inclusivity, some Black Russians should be consumed as well. I love that you are teaching your children about ALL the facets of a democracy, including the necessity of sometimes resisting those in power. Those babies are our future! Perhaps a smallish hurricane will oblige us. FAKE POST! I think Sunday is going to find a lot of us footsore but proud of ourselves. History will smile on these marches that represent the real majority. I want to hear your experiences later...I'll post a post-march thread later s

This is harder than it sounds! I managed 102 but not without some brain-wracking! What's that, about a C?

Thanks for the tip-off. Taking care of it now.

For myself, I will be keeping the TV off. I know I will probably eventually see that awful moment of transition, but I can't bring myself to watch it happen on Friday. Instead I'll be listening to music and baking a birthday cake for my husband's birthday the following day. And the following day, we will be traveling to Los Angeles to join in the march there. How are you handling this bizarre time in our history?

Three of my favorite charities! Thank you, Jeff!

Good thinking!

I don't agree that he won fair and square, not by any stretch of the imagination. I think time will expose just how crooked this "win" really was.

Thanks for posting that, Mike!

I like this description! Sammy Tweedy has an album out too.

Yay! See you!

You will get so sucked in! And I understand there is a second book, a follow-up collection of stories on the same premise. Yay! I might have to join your book club, if I can pass the stringent entrance qualifications.

Yeah, I'm doing all that too. It only makes sense.

Thanks for starting this fresh thread! The discussion definitely needs to continue.

I got a book from my daughter for Christmas which was so fascinating that it made me abandon the Vonnegut I was in the middle of. I blasted through my new book and finished it as my first book of the new year, yesterday. A great read! The book is called "Machine of Death". Yes, sounds grim but it isn't actually. It's a collection of stories by various authors, all based on the premise that a machine has been invented that, with a single drop of one's blood, can tell a person what their cause of death will be. Not when, only the cause. The stories spin out in all directions and detail the socie

Boss_Tweedy, I'm so glad 2016 brought some genuine joy to your family! I wish your dad continued health! Shug, you described my very-mixed New Years Eve feelings perfectly. I'm right there with you but we simply have to put things back to order in the world. There's no other option so we'll do whatever needs to be done. We'll help each other stay strong. And yes, we do that by choosing optimism and courage, by being decent to each other, even by snapping up some Wilco tickets to feed our souls for the fight. Go us!!!