We cats have taken refuge from the awfulness of the daily news in music, cooking, exercise, and reading.
On that last note, here's a book that we're currently into and which we're really enjoying — and not just because it offers escapism. In fact, far from it. Which is the surprising part.
In this history of the Scopes trial, Brenda Wineapple's Keeping the Faith sets the stage by describing the America of a century ago. And guess what? Things were almost as fucked up then as they are now. The KKK ascendant, an Attorney General out of control, free speech suppressed, oligarchs leaning toward fascism, Black people lynched, fundamentalists alarmed at the alleged licentiousness of society... it all seems incredibly familiar.
We survived then... maybe we'll survive now. Maybe. We cats PURR.
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