saturday

Keith, if that is even his name, didn't drop the scissors and tape off. I actually started to walk down the street to his house, wanting to take care of this business before Pop even got up, but it's sunny hot out there, and I decided to come back and just ask Pop to drive me down before he takes Kay home. Though, I am more than half-wondering whether I will get the stuff back even after going to his house. And I start thinking about how the neighborhood has become increasingly minority. The only white person left is Ms. Long. I thought we left Sky Harbor behind, but it now looks like we have only brought Sky Harbor with us. I am now wondering how long it will be before we suffer assaults and break-ins. Will any of my cats be tortured and killed? ... ... It looks like I should have had a little more faith in Keith. The scissors and tape are here. Pi says, "And, look, no cats were harmed or killed!" ... ... Susan Estrich - that's a name I haven't heard in a while. The head of the Dukakis campaign, the first woman to head a presidential campaign. That rather ignominious defeat didn't consign her to oblivion, at least not in total. She got a gig at Fox News as a liberal commentator, working behind enemy lines. In fact, the reason why she is back on the front pages today is that she has taken up the legal defense of Roger Ailes, over that sex harassment scandal at the network. She also wrote a book about Ann Coulter about ten years ago. It presumably didn't do as well as Coulter's books, but it does look like fun and I've put it on my wish list: "Soulless: Ann Coulter and the Right-Wing Church of Hate". It just might make my late-night reading. [NYT] I finished Hobbes's account of the English civil wars, and I went ahead on my plan to take in books on inside-Administration stuff for my late-night reading, starting off by downloading to my Kindle George Stephanopoulos memoir on working under President Clinton, titled "All Too Human". Judging by how eager I am to be swiping through the pages, I know this was a good idea. I have been in that mood to burrow my way into the political personalities that have driven the news over the course of my life. For instance, I need to get that "Game Change" one, with Sarah Palin in the cast of characters. I also really do want Susan Estrich's book on Ann Coultur. My only problem is that I kind of regret pulling away from Hobbes. I was intent on going on with his book on rhetoric, which I am sure will be wonderful. It just won't be quite as fun and intimate as these political books. I want to get back to Hobbes, but I am not sure when or how. Did I mention that Maureen Dowd has a new book coming out, covering her years writing on the Clintons and Trump?