Season of Storms

The Eristic wrath has been keenly felt around the nest lately. A few days ago, the kid had a big meltdown when I made her wash her hands and she wanted that to not have happened. Today, she woke up angry at me for having eaten her bread and wanted me to un-eat it. And I'd done no such thing, she'd just dreamed it! And that was the start of a chain of tantrums where she wanted to get dressed all by herself and also didn't want to get dressed. Just was not ideal, though eventually I was able to iron things out with a carefully-timed offer of Cheerios. Sleep's been irregular, too; last night I had to take her out for a post-midnight walk in the stroller.

Elsewhere: A town not far north of us was hit by a string of gas fires and explosions today, and a major hurricane is arriving at the Atlantic coast. Hope those in the area stay safe.

In political news: Well, it's amazing how much all this crazy news is somehow not news. Like that op-ed. The Republican establishment (where do you think "senior administration officials" come from?) thinks Trump is amoral, stupid, and impulsive, but they're confident they can keep him restrained with bureaucracy and misdirection while they push through their agenda (which is just wildly irresponsible stuff). I mean, is that really a surprise? "Shocking but not surprising".

The Kavanaugh nomination is similar, it's not news, but. Well, it's less galling than Gorsuch for sure, this is more ordinary "Republican president appoints a Republican partisan hack" (though this is just Kennedy retiring, it will surely sting more when it's Ginsberg). But then there's all this stuff about stolen documents, perjury, and kajillion-dollar baseball-ticket (???) debts. Surely just icing on the cake, and whatever happens, he'll be confirmed with the requisite 50-plus-Pence. (Right?)

Eristic improvements: Starting to dress herself some, getting a lot of practice recovering from complete emotional meltdowns.