I BELIEVE SUE SNELL

A funny, bordering on charming example of people knowing about Octavia Butler but not actually reading her is that I saw a picture of a book display labeled, “they saw it coming” with several of her books on it, including the one where earth is taken over by tentacled aliens who make humans be in polycules with them. And friends, either we were, in creating this display, working off of a vague sense of what black ladies write about or there’s something I’ve missed about modern family structure since I have noticed zero tentacled throuples in my day to day life.

I hate canvassing so much and I have a belief that absolutely is more like a 12th century peasant than a modern that the fact that I do it despite hating it creates some kind of surplus spiritual credit that my actual peasant ancestors would have said gets them out of purgatory faster but I understand that purgatory is vain invention grounded on no warranty of scripture and so think it’s going to of float around and nudge James Talerico’s vote share up, and it will float more decisively if I’m sweaty and miserable. And you may be thinking: isn’t the idea that a cloud of spiritual merit is going to lightly slime Ken Paxton not any more grounded in scripture or reason? And to that I merely say, “shhhhhh”

Final-ish Michigan politics take is that it’s a much thornier thing to call a woman politician hot compared to a man but that the absolutely correct hesitancy to talk too much about it doesn’t mean that its not relevant. But also super importantly Jocelyn Benson is so hot. May we be blessed with 16 consecutive years of being led by hot women, amen.

I think Eli Savit is under-appreciated and under-studied because he was arguably one of the most progressive of the 2020 class of “progressive prosecutors” and slipped pretty scandal free under the radar to now have had one of the most successful political careers. It’s also a really under-appreciated win for those of us who care about youth rights and reforming the juvenile justice system. Savit’s earliest political campaign made youth issues central and had a huge team of teen campaign staff. Now he’s going to be Attorney General. It’s great.

Nicolas Cage is in the 1980s is my ideal casting for Jack Torrance but when I follow this assertion down and start casting other roles and thinking about what it would focus on and very quickly I’m describing the movie Wild at Heart.

Goofiest, most discourse-scrambling deep Abdul El-Sayed lore is that he was first inspired to get into politics when Bill Clinton told him he should think about. They were at the U of M graduation when Abdul was the valedictorian and Clinton was the commencement speaker. Slick Willie himself looked at 22 year old Abdul El-Sayed and was like, “kids got the juice”, and for all the complexities of Clinton legacy, that man’s instincts were always good. [citation]