Every end of the year, Batocchio hosts a blog round-up of recommended reads in honor of political blogger Jon Swift.
I am honored to be one of the handful offered an opportunity to share, and so I placed "A Cruel Month" article as my submission, of which I hope the readership enjoys.
I encourage the seven followers of this blog to take the time to visit the Jon Swift page and read through the other links, check up on fellow like-minded bloggers raging against the trumpian storm of corruption, and keep yourself informed for the coming year of madness that will be the 2020 general elections.
I hope to blog a few more things today, keep an eye open.
Showing posts with label years end. Show all posts
Showing posts with label years end. Show all posts
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Monday, December 24, 2012
How Went the Year 2012?
Well:
1) I'm still looking for full-time employment. I have a contractual will-call job at least, which keeps me active and up-to-speed with the technological needs of my information-based profession. I did get about six different libraries interviewing me - two of them with follow-up interviews! - which is a vast improvement to the number of interviews I had in 2011 (one) and 2010 (one). And I still have an interview scheduled for this Friday, with one of the libraries that interviewed me with a follow-up, so I'm hopefully in good standing with them (fingers crossed for luck).
2) My guy got elected to President. The Far Right's attempts to paint Obama as a "failure" and a "disaster" went nowhere. And the one place at the federal level where the Far Right still holds any power - an unbalanced U.S. House - is one vote away from falling into chaos.
3) A lot of great genre movies - The Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, Wreck-It Ralph, Brave, Skyfall - this season. I'd love to see all of them nominated like crazy for the Oscars this year... but noooooooo, it's all gonna be Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty instead. Sigh.
4) Too many shootings. And even now, there's reports that someone shot at firefighters responding to a New York state neighborhood fire with two firemen dead and two others wounded.
5) The Mayans did not doom us. Which is kinda okay, because the real Mayans never wanted the apocalypse anyway: it was some crank Eurowhite guy trying to sell his books.
6) Breitbart's legacy - a website smear machine - is going through some rather public splits right about now. Schadenfreude, thou art pretty tasty during the holidays...
How was the year for you?
1) I'm still looking for full-time employment. I have a contractual will-call job at least, which keeps me active and up-to-speed with the technological needs of my information-based profession. I did get about six different libraries interviewing me - two of them with follow-up interviews! - which is a vast improvement to the number of interviews I had in 2011 (one) and 2010 (one). And I still have an interview scheduled for this Friday, with one of the libraries that interviewed me with a follow-up, so I'm hopefully in good standing with them (fingers crossed for luck).
2) My guy got elected to President. The Far Right's attempts to paint Obama as a "failure" and a "disaster" went nowhere. And the one place at the federal level where the Far Right still holds any power - an unbalanced U.S. House - is one vote away from falling into chaos.
3) A lot of great genre movies - The Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, Wreck-It Ralph, Brave, Skyfall - this season. I'd love to see all of them nominated like crazy for the Oscars this year... but noooooooo, it's all gonna be Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty instead. Sigh.
4) Too many shootings. And even now, there's reports that someone shot at firefighters responding to a New York state neighborhood fire with two firemen dead and two others wounded.
5) The Mayans did not doom us. Which is kinda okay, because the real Mayans never wanted the apocalypse anyway: it was some crank Eurowhite guy trying to sell his books.
6) Breitbart's legacy - a website smear machine - is going through some rather public splits right about now. Schadenfreude, thou art pretty tasty during the holidays...
How was the year for you?
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