What a long, strange month it's been.
The world is crazier than ever, with a mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando - we used to ask for the politicians to wait at least 24 hours before jumping in, but it looks like we're going to have to start begging for half a day. The gun control fights (no debates in sight) have been raging, with the usual slinging of 'greed' and 'hypocrisy' and ''Merica!' and not much focus on generating actual - or even proposed! - solutions to the epidemic of shootings that are going on. Not much real talk about the poor victims of the shootings, either... Not in Orlando, or the other shooting that happened just hours later. Not nearly enough talk about real people.
The current political climate is an absolute madhouse. There's a potential Libertarian candidate that sounds like a bastion of sanity by comparison to the Democratic and Republican 'candidates' (look 'em up), and he's got a couple of policies he's hawking that will make sure he's never connected to a critical mass even though everything else could actually work. Over in the UK 52% voted in a referendum to Leave the European Union, shocking the living daylights out of the rest of the world ('Huge majority!' screams some headlines. Um, 'No', says I) and sending the 48% who wanted to Remain into something of an emotional backlash.
An alligator attacked a two-year-old on a Disney resort beach in Florida (never happened before in 45 years there), and the Internet swam around in its favorite pastime - blaming the parents. It was awful, all of it. The Stanford Swimmer rape trial sentence made a mockery of the 'justice' system, though the letter written by the victim went viral and is amazing and empowering. Victim-blaming abounds. An expose in Chicago about systemic, ongoing abuse by an artistic director of a theatre company brought out 'those women should have known better' and 'actresses should take responsibility for their own situations' comments - and not just from a male reporter (who was fired), but also from a friend of mine over lunch (who... was not). The article also highlighted the actions of a group helping non-Equity companies create standards of behavior so that clear boundaries and expectations are created in similar artistic endeavors.
It's been ridiculously hot for June, and it's hard to sleep.
It's been a rough month for everybody, basically.
Oh - I had a really good performance review and got a small unexpected raise, which was lovely... I just don't have anyone to tell about it. So, y'know - goals. Also, trying to make the world a better place.
We could really use the help.
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Watch out for falling turtles!
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