This is FUBAR on steroids. No way to process it, no way to make sense of it.

[NRaleighLiberal]

I am away at a garden speaking event so am only peeking in now and then to events.

It all seems utterly insane. The whole stew - Russia, Gorsuch, Bannon, Syria, and on and on - an impenetrable mess.

OK - out of politics I go, back to the peaceful world of prepping for my workshop tomorrow (but then alas, back to reality tomorrow night)

Be well, all

[WhiteTara]

1. My sanity rests with digging here and

moving plants there and planning and then doing it all over again.

[sharedvalues]

2. Be well. Things will be ok. There will be time to resist when you return

[2naSalit]

3. Gardening is great therapy...

have a wonderful day tomorrow!

[spanone]

4. 🎵🎶🍷🙏🏻

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. .

[spanone]

6. 😎

[babylonsister]

7. It is insane; keep gardening!!

[hunter]

8. In the end gardening skills and seeds will be important...

... and today's political circus, whatever horrors become of it, will be forgotten.

I think I chose one of the least lucrative biology majors, but I'd be a mess if I hadn't learned to think in geological time scales.

Holy crap, I could identify Foraminifera, but I didn't get a job with an oil company like one of my buddies did. I thought I'd be a science teacher instead. I burnt out on that quickly, but I'm not dead.

10,000 years from now, an instant in this planet's history, an instant even in human history, none of it matters. Trump is nothing. The Republican Party is nothing.

That doesn't mean I've retreated. Politically I'm fierce and it's because I have such a firm foundation in science, in REALITY. I don't have to accept or tolerate ignorance and anti-intellectualism.

I've dug up fossils, I've found bits of interesting bone in tar and dirt, and I've sifted archaeological sites on the Eastern Sierra.

On those time scales Trump is a silent-but-literally-deadly fart in the wind.

Every day I'm thinking of ways to minimize the damage, and I'm hoping this is beach where the Party of Ronald Reagan dies.

Trump reminds me a lot of Ronald Reagan. He's a tool. So is Pence.

I once attended a public event with Reagan, during his second term. I was riding on some slightly purloined press credentials. What I saw was a confused old man who didn't know where the hell he was or what he was doing there. But he had some acting skills and managed to fire off a few sound bites for the TV cameras and other lackey press. It was among the saddest things I've ever witnessed. Trump reminds me of that.

[Kath2]

9. We all need a break sometimes.

I'll refuse and resist. And so will you.

Peace!