The Electricians: Day 12

[poliphilo]

Khalid and his crew have been here, but it's the window boys who took centre stage. At the end of the day we have power everywhere- except in the kitchen- and four new windows have been fitted, plus the kitchen doors.  It's been a bright, sunny day- and perishingly cold.

A right-wing LJ friend who assured me that our political differences would never come between us has unfriended me- presumably over my Afghanistan poems. I'm a little disappointed.

 I'm reading Ophelia Field's history of The Kit Kat Club.

Tomorrow is Eid. The window boys will be coming in, but Khalid is having the day off; he's earned it.

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

American politics is peculiarly toxic, these days. It came very, very close to driving me away from my own elderly parents.

[calizen.livejournal.com]

The main thing I think causing this uproar is the 24/7 "news" which is really driven by demagogues seeking more and more listeners and having access to people driven by their emotions rather than by thinking. Have you watched these broadcasters? Amazing. Not only do they throw their own opinions in as news, but they use their positions as haranguing positions and when guests come in to speak they rarely get 2 words out of their mouths before the host or other interviewees start screaming. I firmly refuse to watch any of these but a lot of people think they're getting the unvarnished truth from them.