I saw a post on Facebook that detailed the political weirdness of 2017: Go on a march in April and vote for May in June… Well. That seems a fitting theme and takes care of four months of this crazy year, the year in which, it seems, we are living in Alice in Wonderland confusion. An Alice damned year: “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” But, you see, I don’t see. And that, I suspect, is perfectly acceptable in this bizarre world that we are living in, a world that makes absolutely no sense. Well, no sense to you or me — those of us who think of ourselves as “normal” and operating in a world where rationality and reason prevail.For people like me, like us, there needs to be in place a set of mutually agreed to rules that allow us to make sense of our world, rules that everyone understands; rules everyon...
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