Two Lovable Nut Cases....

We managed to get out for a walk this morning and the sun was trying to make up its mind, but now it has unequivocally done so...it has retired behind the clouds and it's raining the kind of dispiriting drizzle that  discourages any interest in going out. Unfortunately, I have to go to the dermatologist. I have changed doctors, but it didn't help...she still found a skin cancer that has to be removed.

Spike is trying to work up some interest in getting us to play with him, but we are both immersed in trying to catch up with our New Yorker magazines. They come much too fast and have fascinating but very long articles. Before we can blink there is a pile of four or five of them on the table and we've done nothing but look at the cartoons! Some issues have nothing but funny cartoons that are right on, but others are filled with ones that I simply don't get, but they never take four hours to read....

Every once in awhile I stop our subscription in hopes of catching up, but we never do. If anything, they are just a record of how quickly things change.I picked up one today with various descriptions of the insurrection at the capital on Jan 6. Now, as I read it , it seems that the Republicans have already forgotten about it. What ever happened to 'of the people, by the people and for the people'?  I suppose the difficult word is the one that is left out of that...'ALL the people'

I listened to a podcast with an  interesting proposal about elections. What, instead of campaigns, fundraising and political parties we had 'a democratic lottery'. The example given was a high school somewhere in South America trying just such an experiment. Anybody who wanted to run for student body offices could throw their name into a hat (I think it was actually different colored beans in a jar) . A name for each office was drawn and that was it. What happened next was really surprising.

I know that there are huge differences between a small school in another country and a huge and unruly electorate in the United States, but it was still food for thought. It certainly couldn't turn out any worse than the four years we've just been through, and it would certainly save a lot of time and money....