Bringing down the Landslide, part 5

The title of this post is only somewhat deceptive, unlike the electoral subterfuge currently underway, and I-I mean the opposite of what is expressed by Stevie Nicks; I do not intend to let a landslide of emotion Bring Me Down, but rather to take down or counter such effects.

I get weak when you’re next to me, and when I haven’t eaten enough. I observed how critical this was on Monday. Seriously, some days I’ll have something at 11 or noon and then not substantial until probably 6 o’clock or later when my lunch break is at work.

Gobbled up 1/2 price single-patty Cheeseburgers Tuesday at Sonic Drive-In, twice actually before work. I did all right Wednesday because people brought things to celebrate our manager’s birthday. Evening on Thanksgiving, I could only go to bed.

From a book by Susan Jacoby on anti-intellectualism,
“Video culture has triumphed over print culture,” I once read on audio cd.

Friday is the day trash is collected in my neighborhood, and-and Thanksgiving has delayed this until Saturday. I take the trash out at 2 in the morning so I don’t have to at 6 in the morning, and today I was awake at 5 in the morning because I watched YouTube.

I have to be sure I am well liked,
a primary motivator for my adoption of these rules,
so I talk no politics on Facebook:

EQG-Fluttershy by rainbownspeedash on DeviantArt

1. Politics is not considered polite conversation.
2. I do not know enough about the issues to discuss them calmly or avoid ad hominem.
3. I am on the opposite side of the debate on most issues.
4. I do not like being wrong or being made a fool.
5. I would rather keep friends and be respectful.

I am recovering from some minor embarrassment.

There was a video shared to Facebook about how to evaluate a story, whether or not it is fake news. I saw the video and the very next day I shared a fake story to Twitter, which I admitted to my friend who had shared with a fake story and the video.

Can we say the power of mainstream media is diminished when I see friends concerned

• about fake news which apparently skewed the electorate away from Clinton,
• or the sudden danger of the alternative right?

Stories being put forth by the mainstream media whose power was certainly diminished when Clinton was defeated, huh?

“Oh give thanks to the LORD;
call upon his name; (Psalms 105:1)
make known his deeds among the peoples!”