The horrah, the horrah!

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
~ Stephen King

Possibly it's time to reread The Shining?
 
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence.
~ Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

There is nothing as pitiful as a politician who is deficient in relaying untruths.
~ Stewart Stafford

Take the current resident of the White House (PLEASE!). That parasitical pool of diseased, diarrheal giant rodent shit is so blindingly stupid – can’t even keep his own lies straight.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
~ Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

Which brings me to Tomás Sánchez, a Cuban painter, whose beautiful work inspires mondo peace and calm.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.
~ Robert Bloch, Psycho 

I haven't been out of the house, 'cept for a couple short walks, since last Monday. Today I've GOT to get out, even if just for a drive through the Blue Hills. My brain is starting to go all flashing red lights, DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.
~ Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

I need hope. I need to have at least a smidgen of confidence that we will survive.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. 
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack Up

In this time of seemingly endless quarantine, what can I do to keep from drowning in a sea of despair? I’m painting, knitting, doing my PT exercises. Today it’ll be less chilly AND the sun may peak out from behind the clouds. I can go for a nice, exhausting, long walk.

We NEED to get rid of the pResident Evil, his carbuncularly corrupt cabinet, Moscow Mitch and every other reprobate Republi/Fascist currently abusing their role (that’d be all of ‘em, don’cha know).

Striking resemblance, no?

Vote-by-mail is the way to go so, OF COURSE, the party of rotted bungholes (and their brain atrophied Dear Leader, Captain Chaos) oppose it.

While rules vary somewhat state to state, 33 states and the District of Columbia currently collect ballots by mail or permit “no excuse” absentee voting, in which people can vote absentee for any reason. Colorado, Washington State and Oregon have all-mail elections.
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A bill by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, the former presidential candidate, would require that all states offered a mail-in or drop-off paper ballot option if 25 percent of states declared a state of emergency related to the coronavirus or another infectious disease or natural disaster, and that requests for a ballot could be made electronically.
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“We’re not saying to get rid of all polling places by any means,” Ms. Klobuchar said. “It’s just that the more people we can get to vote this way, the better off this is.”  (source)

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
~ Clarence Darrow