yes, feeling frustrated. with many things. most of them entirely petty. like the techno problems with aol.journals over the weekend and evidently continuing into our monday. i have clearly grown addicted to being able to post when and as i feel like it, and also to reading other journalers' entries. seems like that's how it should work, no? but currently that ain't happening. ah, hardly a blip on the cosmological screen, really. then there's the hot water line under the house that the terminex guy eff'd up when he was under there friday, which caused the hot water pressure to drop to nil on the weekend, though we knew not why at the time. the furnace guys came on sunday (we have an oil-fueled hot water-and-heat system), scratched their heads and left. i came home early from school today to wait for the plumbers, who found the broken line and fixed it. we have the return of hot water. we spoiled americans, unused to third-world conditions such as showering in cold water. G actually did that last night. not me. i'm still dirty.
but we need to start getting used to third-world conditions. i have just read two interviews with paul krugman, NYT op-ed columnist extraordinaire. he has a new book out, a collection of his columns. i read krugman regularly, he is one of my voices in the wilderness. he writes on the lies, mistakes and downright treachery of this administration in his columns. these online interviews are clear, concise and scary as hell. the first is with kevin drum on calpundit, the second is from buzzflash. krugman speaks of his and his friends' feelings about the future:..."we've looked at the news, and we sort of extrapolate the lines forward. And there's this feeling of creeping dread." he caught it in two words: creeping dread. if you don't yet have it, it's time to wake up, start paying some close attention. please, even if you don't consider yourself "political" read these interviews. we don't have the luxury of being apolitical at this point in our history.
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Thank you for pointing me to these interviews. I am a big Paul Krugman fan. I try to read his column every chance I get. I am going to have to read his book. Recently, I had an entry where I railed against Grover Norquist after an appearance on NPR's Fresh Air. His appearance was a counter to an earlier Paul Krugman interview.
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