6 responses to “This is all going to end ugly, if it ends.”

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   Mark Alexander

   04/09/2025

   Aren’t you glad you and I are old and don’t have the majority of our life left to live through this hellscape? My first thoughts every morning are (1) Is he dead yet? and (2) If not, WHAT HAS HE DONE NOW?!

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      Doug Holland

      04/10/2025

      My death, I often say, will be my escape from all this shit, and I pity the young, who won’t have such an easy getaway. My only remaining hope is to live long enough to read about Donald Trump’s death so’s I can have my own with a smile.

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   Tom

   04/09/2025

   So I hate to put this out there as you had so many excellent links as to why we should care/be outraged/act.
   But, I read Calvin and Tiny and I really liked it. I liked the slice of life report from central Michigan, I liked the honest storytelling. So in liking that I read further into the “few there be that find it” blog.
   Shortly after the Calvin and Tiny log was a recent TV shows entry in which the author had the following:

   Severance season two just ended, and it fell off the cliff from season one. A lot less screen time for Patricia Arquette, John Turturro and Christopher Walken, and way too much screen time for the fat negro character and his fat white wife. Plus, the story makes less sense now even though most of the big mysteries have been explained. The one character who had a bigger presence and delivered was Mr. Milchick, well-played by negro actor Trammell Tillman.

   My first instinct was WTF who talks like that? Number two was I don’t want anything to do with this.

   In my opinion this is an absolute wrong, but I see worlds where this is normalized. In you opinion is this outfront racism or “we all talk this way”.

   I’m sorry that’s a very clumsy last question.

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      Doug Holland

      04/10/2025

      Fair question, and not clumsy. Anyone using ‘negro’ as an ordinary adjective is an asshole. Wish he wasn’t, and don’t understand why he is, but obviously, Henry Racicot is an asshole. I don’t think he’s the kind of asshole who’d lynch black people (Henry, correct me if I’m wrong) but he’s the kind of asshole who says ‘negro’ a lot.

      Probably, he has a reason. Maybe he’ll explain it. Most likely, the reason is just that Henry’s an asshole. That’s what I’ve always assumed.

      Which doesn’t mean I’m not an asshole, too. Nobody’s not. Just means I’m a different kind of asshole, or I wipe more closely. I’ve been reading Henry’s stuff for 35 years, so apparently I’m the kind of asshole who’s willing to overlook another asshole’s assholery, if said asshole is a very good writer, and said asshole is.

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3. 

   Henry L. Racicot

   04/10/2025

   “Maybe he’ll explain it.”

   I’ll just borrow Knut Hamsun’s explanation for one of his boo-boos:

   *Once upon a time I was like my comrades. They have kept pace with the times, I have not. Now I am like no one. Unfortunately. Thank God.*

   I apologize for the disturbance. I didn’t realize anybody actually read the blog. Almost all the entries there are just me talking to myself. Can’t go back and undo the effect on the one person who did read it, but I did remove the offending words in an attempt to prevent anyone else experiencing the same.

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4. 

   Tom

   04/10/2025

   Deep respect for owning this issue. I do believe this may be the best possible outcome. In various times in my life I’ve been normalized, still am probably, to how figure out certain situations. In many cases I’ve been wrong and I’ve needed an aid to figure out what’s what.
   If you , Henry, have figured out the issue I was on and corrected, that is remarkable and commendable.

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