Grumpy Grandpa

My life is being endangered by DJ Trump--along with hundreds of thousands of others.  My anger is growing at the wanton disregard for my life by this president and his allies.  And he doesn't even know me--we've never met and never will.   He is endangering my life, that of my wife, my neighbors (in their 70s and 80s, respectively), my children-in-laws' parents, and millions of others who have never met him.  Many voted for him.  Many support him.  Many seem to fear him and kowtow to him.    He is doing it passively, by refusing to cooperate with the incoming administration.  So plans for dealing with the Covid-19 plague are tied up in his childlike opposition to the election results.    The longer it takes to initiate a transition, the slower and more complex the distribution of the two candidate vaccines will be.  Every day of delay means that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people will get the infection.  Hundreds...

  Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off--or does it? Today, two days after the election polls have closed, it is still not clear who has been elected president of the United (?) States.  Biden is edging closer to the magic number of electoral votes (270), and if his razor-thin lead in Nevada holds up, he will be the elected president.   Politicians from the dominant groups have been working very hard for over a hundred years to keep minority voters from the polls.  Democrats from the end of the Civil War until after World War II, using special taxes on voting, excessive requirements to register, intimidation, and even murder to keep non-Caucasians from voting.  Republicans have taken up the challenge, and their efforts have accelerated as more and more of electorate become non-Caucasian (I am told that over half of eligible voters are now from what used to be known as "ethnic minorities.")  The ploys include increasingly strict voter laws (photo identif...