Flaming on the Net @densetsu@mspsocial.net

A revised #introduction!

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and my dear #cats, Kentucky and Louisiana! Welcome and nice to meet you!

Hellooooo Mspsocial! Nice to meet you! I'm Josh. I like reading, gaming, and many other things.

Here are the living beings that depend on me, Kentucky cat and Louisiana cat. Kentucky is from Kentucky, has no teeth, and enjoys chasing her toys. Louisiana's origin is unknown, but that was her name at the Minneapolis shelter so it seemed like fate. She enjoys waking me up in the morning to feed her.

#introductions

I'm Josh and trying to figure out how to be a lawyer.

I have two cats, Kentucky and Louisiana.

I post about the Court, USPol, puzzles, my cats, and whatever media catches my fancy.

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Played some more Gloomhaven today and very much enjoyed it. Also enjoyed playing a couple rounds of Cryptid and Citadels.

I did not enjoy playing Mountains of Madness. I feel the madness mechanic was meant to be fun but only ended up frustrating.

The view.

Everdell! Once I figured out the board of this, it went smoothly. But I kind of disliked the board layout. Didn't hook into my brain like other boards.

Another scenario!

Joining in on a Gloomhaven session!

I slept a straight 6 hours. Glorious.

I'm imagining a certain goose running amok in the Target Center and it is very peaceful.

Spent my last few lunch breaks this week basically getting a better understanding of how Strahd will be messing with the PCs going forward.

Another aspect of this is that the federal courts are moving astoundingly fast, particularly in the tax returns issue. Like @divergentdave mentioned, those will not be publicly available as documents. If the President is indicted in NY, we might see parts of them in the indicting documents though.

*You may as well just start with subpoenas, due to the intractability of the White House and their penchant for delay.

Some key takeaways from listening to this episode of All the President's Lawyers:

*The House has sole powers of Impeachment, meaning that whatever the White House decries about the House's power to conduct it is basically "I don't wanna."

*Apparently the last time the House rules on Impeachment were written, it was done when the Republicans were in the majority. So keep that in mind as Kevin McCarthy has a sad face about the process.

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/lrc-presents-all-the-presidents-lawyers/recognize-the-legitimacy-of-this-podcast

It's important that any Republicans crying about the Impeachment process comes off as sour grapes because I think the last time the House rules on Impeachment were written, it was by Republicans.

Mr. Wrong (1996)

We thought we were so old and cool. And the adults that did theater with you? You feel like their peer and colleague. And that's intoxicating. And easily manipulable. Damn, it boggles my mind how vulnerable we probably were if some predator decided to be enterprising, like Donahue and MacLean were.

And reading through this article reminded me of just how vulnerable I must have been as a 15 year old kid doing theatre at a local community college with a bunch of other adults. Nothing happened to me, but when you're in a cast with adults, you get invited to the cast party, and I was in the show with another 15 year old girl and another girl a year or two older then me, and I really wonder if anything happened to them.

I worked at The Jungle for a time after I came back from Japan. It was box office and concessions. And Donahue was good friends--and maintained that friendship--with the artistic director Bain Boehlke. So he'd sometimes be at a Jungle event.

Can't remember if I ever exchanged any words with him, thinking back on it now. Bain had Donahue's art sometimes up in the lobby, from what I remember. Anyway, I knew enough about Donahue to stay away from him.

This City Pages article on the ongoing trauma stemming from the sexual abuse and assault by John Clarke Donahue and Jason MacLean (among the failures of others) of boys and girls at The Children's Theater is a horrifying read.

http://www.citypages.com/news/dozens-of-predators-100s-of-kids-decades-of-trained-stars-and-scorched-lives-at-childrens-theatre/562558991?fbclid=IwAR0nlga5hdUkUjDfmCBoKRO_uXMgXuDUy6oMwc0iRDwhc9WqmbWRnh13Xik

Me: Midsommar's out!

Also Me: There's no extended cut or commentary? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO