Tuesday December 4

We had lake effect snow over night--a couple of inches on top of the slushy mix of last evening. We may get more depending on how the winds off Lake Michigan set up. The city trucks have been out plowing but the teams from our landlord haven't shown up yet.

Found this item a bit earlier this morning. By the time the idiots at the top of the political food chain realize what is going on those at the bottom will have figured out how to adjust. Too many interests higher up are too invested in the status quo to recognize when that status quo is failing.

Ben Fountain writing at tomdispatch has some interesting facts about the 2018 election.

I wonder sometimes what it is about the term "unsustainable" these guys don't understand. Or the word "stalemate." If we are at a stalemate and the situation is unsustainable why are we wasting more money, materiel and lives on it? And the notion that getting out now would leave the "country" unable to defend itself is problematic since the conflict is between different Afghan forces. Who represents the country? And I would question if, what ever side they think is the "country" can't protect itself now, what makes our military think delaying our departure with more losses of our money, our people and our materiel would make it more able to defend itself.