Amazon Vine is offering me a book titled Intersectionality: Key Concepts. I feel very insulted. Even when I was offered a book on opossum traps and “new gear for my deer-hunting adventure” I didn’t feel as misunderstood as I do now. 

I love the TV show Snapped. I record every episode. But I rarely watch past the first 15 minutes. It isn’t the crimes and the trials that I’m interested in. The really fascinating part is when they show the landscapes and the stories of real people all over the country. It’s the lives before the snapping part that I could just watch and watch. 

There used to be a show called City Confidential, and each episode would describe a town and then would tell of a murder than took place there. I loved the town descriptions.

After listening to Mike Pence last night, I understood why Trump is so popular with the Republican party base. Pence is literally on a different planet from what the base wants and he’s so smug and oblivious about it that it’s scary. 

This last year has been eye-opening to everybody about what the Republican base wants except for these old-school old farts like Pence. Not that Trump is a spring chicken but at least he’s not all abortion-Russia, abortion-Russia like a broken record. 

There absolutely is a war on Christmas going on. It’s called global warming. 

It looks like we’ll spend this Christmas, yet again, mowing the lawn instead of playing snow angels. I read a book on what this town was like back in the late 19th century, and it was all about snow sports, sleigh riding, skating and building snowmen in winter. Today, these activities sound outlandish in this region. 

Pence looked desperate in his attempts to deny every single thing Trump ever said or did. As a result, he looked like he never met his own candidate. 

Kaine was very on message, prepared, and strong. 

But I predict that we’ll head that Pence won because whenever anybody on Trump’s campaign manages not to yell “Zig heil!” after every sentence and howl at the moon while peeing all over himself, it feels like a major achievement. 

That moderator, though. I felt like we’ve been conquered by Russia already. 

8:11 – I’m a bit late to the debate. What did I miss?

8:13 – I love Kaine for reminding Pence about Trump’s love of Putin. It’s the height of hypocrisy to blame Hillary for Putin when your running mate is fellating Putin all day and all night. 

8:16 – who is this moderator? Couldn’t they find anybody even mousier and with a quieter voice?

8:19 – Pence can’t decide if he wants to go back to the 1980s or the 1960s. It’s like he’s obsessed with even numbers. Creepy. 

8:28 – what drag show did this moderator come to the debate from? How does it occur to anybody to use somebody so inappropriate for a political debate?

8:44 – Pence is talking to the victims of the heroin epidemic. It’s Trump’s base that Hillary is not reaching and is not trying. I wish she talked to them, too. 

9:00 – Pence is quoting Lean In. Creepy. 

9:02 – Pence has gone completely off message on Russia. Is he aware what the position of the campaign on Russia even is?

9:03 – both candidates are condescending to the android moderator. This is what you get when you show up to a debate looking like this. I feel like I’m in Russia where the only women who are allowed to appear on TV are the ones who look like they just serviced a bunch of truck drivers at a truck stop. 

9:09 – Kaine says we need to continue sanctions against Russia. ❤🎉🎊🍨⛄🚀🔝🔜🎉

9:11 – Pence begs Kaine not to put something in his mouth. I didn’t hear what exactly he referred to. 

9:26 – Pence should have kept quiet about his so-called faith. He slipped and revealed how empty and formalities his “religious” upbringing was. The fellow hasn’t as much as stood next to a religious person. 

A journalist on TV asks a group of young people if they “feel connected to Clinton” and when they reply negatively proceeds to offer a clumsy analysis of the response. 

I’m very enthusiastic about Hillary’s candidacy but I don’t “feel connected” to her either. I do think feel connected to any people I see on TV. The whole idea sounds creepy and almost stalkerish. 

In the midst of all this silliness, the news that Hillary leads Trump by 6 points in 3 different polls were mumbled once and the analysis of unconnected young people continued.

Next to the JFK airport in New York, there is a hotel. In the backyard of the hotel, there are always a couple dozen people mulling about. They hold little handmade placards so that the placards can be seen from the windows of the hotel. The placards are in Russian and say things like “IPhone $30,” “a Chanel bag $45,” “a Burberry coat $60.”

Riddle: What are these people doing? Who are they looking for?

So are we watching the Veep debate tomorrow?

If your spirits are flagging, here’s a heart-warming story. I left the classroom for a minute today, and when I got back, I saw that a student was using the break to get several students to fill out voter registration cards. They are all 18-19, and it’s their first time to vote. And this is how our side got 5 new voters today.  

I love my blog because only here can one see the words “ad hominem” and “pig-fucker” meaningfully coexist in one sentence.