A very important day — a milestone day.

Today is a milestone as far as dates go, and I assume you all know why . . . that’s right! It’s a palindrome!

1 20 2021          How cool is that!?

Why, what did you think I meant?

OK, I’m kidding, but let me be serious for a few moments.

I’ve been avoiding watching the news — and have been very successful — but I get peripheral noise intruding into my calm. I’ve also been careful not to engage in political commentary . . . well, mostly careful.

Meaning, I no longer post long dissertation about my understanding of whatever social, political, financial situation we — as individuals — and we — as a country — are facing.

Not that one could not find enough of my rants to fill many hours of one’s life . . . if they bothered looking.  But, since they won’t bother looking, in chronological order listing since 2012:

2012 Election – Paint me Disgusted
Unintended Consequences
One Four Challenge and more other stuff
Freedom of Speech, Politics, and Yellowstone NP
We stare into the abyss . . .
It’s Complicated
Sunday with my thoughts — 13NOV2016
Sunday with my thoughts — 20NOV2016
Sunday with my thoughts — 04DEC2016 — Coral Works
Sunday with my thoughts — 11DEC2016 — Coral Works in Black and White
And so it comes to pass . . . (Four Years Ago Today)
On Protesting and Other Things
Snippets
Elites, Intellectuals, Reason, Questions, and Critical Thinking
Rudderless Sunday
I muse, therefore, I am
Random observations and tiny rants
The Road To Hell Is Paved By True Believers
I am, therefore, I muse
Flowers and Thoughts Part 1 — We’re Doomed! Doomed, I Tell You!
Flowers and Thoughts Part 2 — We’re Doomed! Doomed, I Tell You!
It Takes A Village . . .
Sunday with my thoughts – it seems a no-brainer
Of Statues and Stuff (mostly statues)
The Weight of the Iron Block
We’re not having the right discussion
A pressure-relieving rant

Not a complete list (sometimes I bury rants in regular posts) but enough to give you a good feel for my opinions about politics.

I almost dug up posts I did before I got this blog (I had two other blogs). Posts going back to the 1990s. Posts that sounded more alarmist as time passed. Sure, a few of my views have shifted as far as details are concerned, but pretty much, most of my worries were founded, and most of the fears I expressed came to fruition. Most of what I rant on those many posts is still with us, only worse than it was. No, I don’t claim special knowledge; just observations, some critical thinking, and a basic understanding of human nature and history.

The posts linked above take you from 2012 to the end of 2019 . . . and there’s not much after that directly to do with politics. A few posts about COVID-19, but for the most part, I’ve eschewed commenting on the cesspool that comprises current political and social, and financial discussions. Instead, these days, I typically point readers to far more eloquent voices that track close to my thinking.

. . . not that many listens . . .

I’m planning a fairly quick post about where I think we are and what we might face going forward . . . and when I do, to anyone who’ll be moved to engage me in discussions about what I have to say . . . I say welcome! . . . but, first, read all — or at least some — of the above so that you know where I’m coming from; so that you know my biases; so that you know whether I was right or wrong four years ago, eight years ago, or in between. So that you know if you should even bother engaging me.

And here’s the thing . . . in that post, I’ll try to explain how I cope because I know many people are having problems coping with what is essentially an ongoing shitstorm coming at us from every direction . . . I’ve done it before — explain how I do it — but it’s obvious no one listened; but maybe now, a few will.

Wow . . . 1 2 0 2 0 2 1 . . . won’t happen again for a while. OK, OK . . . there’s one next month: 12 FEB 2021 . . . er, sorry . . . 12 02 2021. After that, we’ll have three more in December … if we’re still here.

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27 thoughts on “A very important day — a milestone day.”

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    1. Hmm . . . Don’t know either.

      It looks fine on my phone (first time I’ve used the reader in 1 or 2 years, I don’t remember exactly).

      What’s messed up?

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      1. Online in a web browser the text in the Reader runs on in one block. Sent you a screenshot of what it looks like in dark mode on my Android phone.

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        1. Is Dark Mode an option on the reader or the phone? My phone doesn’t have a native dark mode (it has night mode but that’s different).

          I don’t see the setting on the reader app, but I’m not a big user of it.

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      2. It looks fine on both my PC and on the phone at my end (although the phone is not in dark mode, but the PC is).

        It seems as if there are two problems:

        1) the font not inverting

        2) the system not recognizing the line feed.

        Since I’m not seeing it at my end in either of my devices, I don’t know what to say.

        You could try turning off Dark Mode and see if one or both problems go away, but it sounds as if they are two separate problems.

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      3. OK, it looks like the black font has the same problem in my older posts as well (all the posts I checked, so this has been going on for a while).

        Sad that.

        I like using black for both light and (the PC) dark mode, so now I’ll stick with the blue (I don’t like the non-so-quite-black color; for me, it’s difficult to read).

        But, I will report this to WP support before I even attempt going back and re-editing millions . . . er . . . tens of posts. Perhaps they can fix it because, you know, it should work.

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        1. Why not use the theme’s default font color? I’m almost positive that in dark mode in the reader in the app and on the web that will change to a light colored font.

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        2. It’s more of a dark gray than black, and I don’t like it (fickle, am I).

          My normal going is the bluish color you see at the beginning of the previous post.

          I could change, but I’m waiting for WP support to get back with me. My feeling is that if a color is available, I should be able to use it.

          Also, while I can maybe understand it not inverting (it should show as white), I don’t think the color of the font should alter the formatting. I think it’s a glitch they should fix.

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        3. Agreed. If you have the Premium upgrade, you can ask them for the necessary CSS to make sure it shows up well on mobile.

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        4. I changed it to the default, but it still looks barely legible. I think it’s a problem with how they do the dark appearance. They don’t actually seem to invert anything.

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        5. I’m not sure. I’ve had one post go out that completely ignored the first paragraph of a post and even after the issue was corrected on my site, the post in the WP app’s Reader (as well as in feedly) stubbornly refused to update to show the missing paragraph. So for existing posts, it might be a lost cause. See what happens with your next post.

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  4. Ah . . . learned a new word. Since I had a good day yesterday, maybe that was the reason why. And there are more coming. Great!

    BTW, only kidding.

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    2. I’m finally working on the jigsaw puzzle I got for Christmas. It’s about book spines of famous titles, but set to humor. I just put the pieces together for the book title is “YO BANANA BOY – A Handy Book of Palindromes”. I smiled at the synchronicity.

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    1. I am chagrinned to say that I missed it.

      In my defense, I’m juggling a few things, but still, I looked at that comment and I couldn’t figure out the context/menaing of the “aha”, couldn’t get to the finish line, but . . . now I won.

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