Kathy J

james baldwin was so right when he said “the children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

@PeterNorton12 We're at the Seattle's southern boundary. We have this photo from 1936 on our wall - it shows the street car that used to run along where now lies the most dangerous road in the city.

Street capacity is a public resource to be allocated in the public interest.

@cam_lutece @PeterNorton12 "On February 10, 1890, Tacoma's first electric trolley cars zip along the city streets as crowds cheer." Interesting to see this the day after all the similar media posts about the the new light rail segment connecting Seattle with its eastern suburbs. historylink.org/File/20705

@PeterNorton12 I'm surprised TR&P made an effort to claw back pateonage, especially when they were abandoned amidst the Depression in 1938.

@cam_lutece @PeterNorton12 historylink.org/File/20712

@JamesMartinSJ There has to be a balance. Some of those activities were truly dangerous to the child and to others.

Of all the passages I read aloud from my book “Work in Progress,” this one, about common activities for kids in the 1960s and 70s, which would horrify most parents today, gets the most reactions--laughs from older crowds, raised eyebrows from the younger crowds. facebook.com/photo/?fbid=15…

I did not know this until recently. Have probably killed many snails, then. 😥

It is now our sacred duty to take the 2 line across the lake and destroy property values on Mercer Island

@NEVERLOGGINGOUT Must've been the late 80s. I ran the streets in the early 80s and never saw a gun.

Seattle in the 80s was the last frontier. It was this little satellite parody of the real world. But was surrounded on all sides with empty nothingness. It only modernized fairly recently. These kids are the last lineage of those that were the kinds of people who “headed west”

@spokanerising @DivestSPD Not exactly economically diverse, either.

@DivestSPD You realize it’s like 60% people of color and 40% people born internationally now, right? Not exactly a white flight suburb anymore!

Won’t go to Bellevue on a train Won’t go to Bellevue in a plane. Won’t go to Bellevue in a car Won’t go to Bellevue, near or far Excited to ride the train to Judkins Park and Ballard years from now (maybe)

@prenshaw @shaqoftheseus Nobody is ALL bad. But my mother's psycho husband has the complete essays of Montaigne.

@shaqoftheseus Fascinating selection. Anyone who has the complete essays of Montaigne can’t be all bad! 🤓

you go to her house and this is her bookshelf wyd

The home town I couldn't get away from fast enough.

@RVAwonk Nothing that's going on right now is new.

Why is everything bad a “demon” or “satanic” all of a sudden? Everywhere I look, someone is describing something in those terms (“evil,” etc) and I don’t understand where it’s coming from or why everyone decided to start speaking like that.

Great ad from across the pond.

@TheTNHoller @RepOgles The good/evil binary thinking is so childish it would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous.

ICYMI — Tennessee congressman @RepOgles invokes the crusades to imply everyone in 🇺🇸 who isn’t Christian is “evil”

First look at what Melania Trump is calling a "humanoid educator"

"Imagine a humanoid named Plato." Melania Trump says humanoid educators will offer "instantaneous" access to the classical studies for students and help create a "more complete person."

God, they even use the image of that Nagasaki boy waiting in line to cremate his dead sister who he is carrying on his back. I put that image on the cover of AE after seeing it at Nagasaki. The US Empire is the enemy of humanity.

The Far Side from 1987

Saw two adolescent boys absolutely terrorizing a family of geese across a huge public park lawn. No reason. Just for fun. Scaring them. Chasing them. Trying to kick them. I was fifty yards away. “Hey! Leave the geese alone!” Nothing. “Hey!!! Stop chasing the geese!!!” They looked at me and hesitated. Then kept going. I summoned the spirit of every soul brutalized by men and said “LEAVE THE BIRDS ALONE!!!!!!!” The entire waterfront park stopped and the boys RAN to their dad. I am at the point where I have zero embarrassment for calling out men of every age for their actions. Whatever sickness men have, it starts young. It starts taking pleasure in the distress of others. I simply won’t stand for it. And parents! The fuq ya’ll doin with these boys????????