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EDWARD JACOBS

Author: Ed Jacobs

  • Thursday, January 21, 2021

    wow, what a day yesterday was. And one of the many highlights of the days was hearing this fabulous talent do her thing:

  • Wednesday, January 20, 2021

    What a wonderful way to start the day

    Good riddance

  • Tuesday, January 19, 2021

    As the sun sets on this horrendous four years, let’s keep these reminders handy.

  • Monday, January 18, 2021

  • Sunday, January 17, 2021

    So very grateful that classes begin Tuesday, that we had auditions yesterday. The need to ready things for more online teaching, for the semester ahead, is an effective deterrent to reading the news.

    Because the news is just ever more horrid. Of course, hoping that the incoming administration is able to achieve its goals, which are astoundingly ambitious. Here’s hoping that Congress will work with him. So very bizarre, after the years’ past, to hear half of Congress making claims for the need for unity. It’s all just deeply disingenuous, so clearly all about trying to get back $ lost from the many corporations who’ve recently cut them off.

    And one has to wonder about what took these companies so long to actually “stand.”

    I found last night’s entry by Heather Richardson an extremely informative one. She puts so much into historical perspective (from FDR to the present), and I appreciate gaining this long-view.

  • Wednesday, January 13, 2021

    Just a few days left–before classes begin next week; before the drastic slowdown of the last 5 years’ insane Trump-based headlines; until the start of a rebuild of rationality in the White House; until the beginning of some coordinated actions against the pandemic; and more, of course, in the broad world and in your life.

    Today’s headlines [look anywhere, though my stop is nytimes.com] say it all. Trump talking about “totally appropriate” comments; McConnell and Cheney noting his actions as impeachable; more detailed reports emerging about the horrors of January 6; the participation of members of our military, law enforcement, even Capitol police, politicians, and the level of violence much worse than originally reported. Let alone the execution of someone who’s so completely incompetent, and Pompeo’s actions so troublesome that European leaders are cancelling meetings with him.

    And Covid-19, which is what should have been occupying these fools for the past year, rather than sowing disinformation about fraudulent elections because he knew he was going to lose. So, so many deaths; so many lives turned upside down, so little action by our so-called President. In my mind, he is guilty of more than Treason, but of crimes against humanity. Truly, the definition of evil.

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    All the words spilled to report, to incite, to inform. But these are my favorite:

    Look who’s talking!

  • Monday, January 11, 2021

    As if last week wasn’t enough; it’s clear that this chapter is far from over.

    This and perhaps even more frightening, the implications noted re DOD and Capitol police here

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    Here at home, finally beginning to accelerate towards the start of classes next week.

  • Sunday, January 10, 2021

    Not much of a Schwarzenneger fan, but this is worth seeing.

    Here’s a telling page from today’s local paper. Our sycophant representative justifying his actions, followed by letters from the community. Note, in particular, the editors statement in italics at the bottom right–no letters of support were written on behalf of this traitor.

  • Saturday, January 9, 2021

    https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-8-2021

    If you’ve not been reading this Prof’s “Letters from an American” newsletter, it’s quite good. I find it a refreshing source of not-too-heavily slanted presentation of a day’s events.

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    This morning’s video-call with Jackson…part of his morning routine involves making coffee with dad. During our call I was making coffee, so we did the obvious with our respective coffee filters–

    Just wonderful to talk politics with Joe, and then get back to basics with Jackson.

  • Thursday, January 7, 2021

    What more can be said? So many brilliant minds and wonderful writers have said it all. We’ll look back on January 6, 2021 as a day of a failed Coup d’Etat in the U.S.A. Here is but one source among so very many.

    Watching the news yesterday, non-stop from ~2pm through the evening, was among the most horrifying such sessions in memory. 9/11/01, the Challenger, and reaching back to the beginnings of my memories, assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and then Robert Kennedy.

    So much about the day’s events stood out, not the least of which was watching thousands of white folk storming the Capitol, seemingly with little resistance–and told to go home. Is there anyone who doesn’t see the contrast with protests–PEACEFUL protests–that aren’t organized by the right, by white folk?

    “An existential threat to our Republic” is a description of Trump I’m hearing this morning. These coup-plotters, urged on by Trump, supported pre-violence by members of our Congress, walked through the Capitol waving the Confederate flag, and tried to replace the American flag with a Trump flag.

    Just so shameful, on so many levels.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/opinion/trump-25th-amendment-impeachment.html

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    But the day began with a happy video-call from Joe and Jackson. Jackson’s bout with molar-teething has passed, and he was as happy as could be. Below some shots of his affection with his dog Elli, and patiently awaiting breakfast…

    Leaning in to rub noses with me and Frankie
    Awaiting more breakfast–hurry!
    Giving Ellie a nose-rub-kiss
    And giving Ellie a hug