2022 Will be ‘The Good Old Days’ Soon

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. – Albert Einstein

The House Freedom Caucus. (Seen here in their dreams.)
2022.

It was 
the best of times 
and the most absurd 
of times:
A war in Ukraine; 
a fight for democracy; 
the end of Roe;
ketchup on the walls 
at Mar-a-Lago; 
fantastically awful candidates, 
and the mid-term Pratfall 
of the Deplorables.
It was the year 

of the Will Smith slap 
and prominent Russians 
falling out of windows; 
the death of the Queen; 
and Harry and Meghan’s 
Netflix series.
In 2022 

we were inspired 
by Volodymyr Zelensky; 
but it was also the year 
of “Elon. Kanye. Trump.”
love is a burning thing and it makes a fiery ring.
We nudged an asteroid 
and may have cracked 
the mystery of fusion; 
but 

it was also a year 

of supply chain snafus, 
inflation, wild deadly weather, 
chaos at the border, 
airline meltdowns, 
mass shootings, 
and the appalling incompetence 

of the good guys 
with the guns 
in Uvalde.
It was a bad year 

for authoritarians, 
from Putin 
to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, 
who was defeated 
for re-election. 
It was a good year, 

relatively speaking, 
for democracy. 
In 2022, we learned Q was a cat and no one is surprised.
It was a year 

of consequences 
for seditionists 
and Alex Jones. 
But Steve Bannon 
still walks free.
It was a year 

of courage 
and pusillanimity, 
of Liz Cheney
 and Cassidy Hutchinson, 
but also Elise Stefanik, 
and Running Josh Hawley. 
Iran’s women 
rose up, 
even as Afghanistan 
descended 
into a new dark age 
for women’s rights.
The former president 
dined with Nazis, 
called for the termination 
of the Constitution 
so he could be restored to power, 
asked Putin for favors, 
and issued NFT trading cards
 
of himself.
You will have to pry my gas stove from my cold dead fingers.
It was a year 

of performative cruelty 
and bitter tribalism, 
interrupted 
by surprising bursts 
of bipartisanship 
on guns, 
spending, 
gay marriage, 
and election reform.
In 2022, 

we saw statesmanship 
and heroism, 
but also flamboyant grifting, 
narcissism, 
and bigotry; 
a crypto meltdown; 
and a newly-elected congressman 
whose entire life story 
is a lie.
And it was all 
perfectly 
on brand.
To build up a future, you have to know the past. – Otto Frank. Whatever.

Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantos Has No Right

To My Granddaughter’s Menstrual Info.

She’s In Middle School!

That’s just sick.

Here I Am

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