Monday’s Activities Include: vacuuming

Laundry, trash and Eufy this morning — just ordinary, daily stuff. Nothing related to the recent chaos. Yay!

In a morning miracle, we were able to get A. up and out the door more or less on time. Given that DST started yesterday, and she is tough to get going under the best of circumstances, this is absolutely unprecedented. I started having her go to bed at least an hour early beginning Thursday, and I think that really helped.

ETA: Other activities of the day: I had a Dutch lesson! Yay! So nice to see my instructor and his husband. It has been a while. Also, we talked politics, which I love talking politics with him. I had a walk with M.

Today at the Boston Globe

John Oliver tackles a problem I actually care about and think is really important:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2019/03/11/john-oliver-explains-why-you-been-getting-more-robocalls-lately/iBHnLSXOAbzMzxFCbwah1O/story.html

Good for John! I hope his robocalls on the FCC get some action. Like, if the FCC tries to stop John, maybe John can get the judiciary in on this and force some meaningful action. I’m on the Do Not Call registry. I have NoMoRobo. Nothing works. This is insane.

Also at the Boston Globe, I did not read the anti-MMT article by Kenneth Rogoff. However, knowing that Kenneth Rogoff is opposed to MMT is perhaps the strongest argument _for_ MMT that I have yet seen.

ETA:

Oh, but wait! There’s more!

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/03/11/ayanna-pressley-false-start-teen-voting/o0jVbFtLRE9RA8g0RTOOpJ/story.html

Don’t actually read that turd. It’s by some woman from the Independent Woman’s Forum, a group founded by women who supported Clarence Thomas (_yes_ _really_), is terrified that the ERA might actually pass, etc. etc. Anyway. She’s aware enough that a 16 year old probably won’t vote, but terrified that this might increase Democratic turnout.

I don’t really give a fuck, one way or the other. Letting 16 year olds vote doesn’t seem any more inherently wacky than letting anyone else vote. “Life experience” certainly doesn’t seem like a compelling argument (any more than the out-of-touch-ness of so many people older than 16 is any reason to deny them the franchise).

I have no idea what is going on at the Boston Globe. I suspect that it is now being run by an alien collective (ETA: to be abundantly clear, when I say “alien” I mean like, Red Lectroids from Planet Ten type of alien). I mean, when it was just weird articles written by Beth Teitell, that was kind of fun to speculate about why they published those. But they have truly launched today.