It's Not Over

"Ruth Bader Ginsburg is in the hospital."

Oh, no!!!  Those are not the first words you want to hear in the morning. That's not what you want to hear anytime, but it's what we first heard when the alarm-clock radio woke us up this morning.  "She's recovering from a fall she took yesterday."

Whew, that's better, we thought.  Anyone can fall down, and it's more likely to hurt an 85-year-old woman than some others.  No need to panic.

"She fell while in her office Wednesday night," the report continued.

WHAT?!  Why is she falling over in her office? We can understand a parking lot, out shopping, or while skate-boarding, but why is the Notorious RBG falling over in her office?  

This does not bode well.

The other news this morning was better - Republican Karen Handel, WDW's most reviled politician, conceded the House race to her opponent, the Democrat Lucy McBath.  Do you remember a few years ago when a black teenager got shot and killed in Jacksonville for the unpardonable sin of allegedly playing music too loud?  Lucy McBath is that kid's mother, and she decided to run against Handel this year for the U.S. House on a strong gun-control platform.  She won, and in Newt Gingrich's ultra-conservative old district at that.  We don't live in that district and couldn't vote for her (we live in John Lewis' district), but we're glad to see McBath win.

Meanwhile, Stacy Abrams is keeping the good fight going, demanding that all absentee, write-in, and provisional ballots be counted before she either concedes or demands a runoff election.  Last night, Samantha Bee covered this story and reiterated almost everything we said here yesterday.

But this isn't a political post (at least not anymore) - this is a dentistry post.  We finally got to the dentist today after self-extracting a tooth last weekend.  The outlook is not good and it looks like at least four more teeth have got to come out, so I guess I'll be busy this weekend.  No, just kidding, I won't be self-extracting again.  I'll let the dentist do it next time.  The first two come out the Monday after Thanksgiving and that's just the start.  It'll be a long road ahead for us, but this is when our contemplative Stoicism will come into practice.