I’ve been fairly busy since the last time I wrote anything on this blog. The “biggest” news is that An Erotic Life has now been published and is on sale wherever the censors will allow it to be sold (which obviously doesn’t include ol’ Jeff’s place). If you liked the four “autobiographies” I’ve done so far, you should enjoy this. It contains everything that was in those, but rearranged so that it’s all in chronological order, and I’ve added enough new material that I could have just done a fifth book instead of putting it all together.
Something else that’s new since my last post is that WordPress has finally managed to make it so ridiculously difficult to wrap text around images that I’ve completely given up on even trying. I guess I’m just going to have to use larger images and put them inline between paragraphs. Tech people are always trying to “improve” things, but as often as not they just screw them up instead.
Something else that’s new. One Room is now available as an audiobook. If you’re in the US you can get it from Audible here. It’s also available from Audible in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. All of those are in English, of course, they just have separate markets for those countries. Amaya Thompson reads it.
There’s also my other audiobook, Lust for Blood, read by the appropriately British Angela Mannering.
This is also available on the US, UK, French, and German Audible sites, and can also be had in both Kindle and paperback editions from Amazon. You’ll want to use the links, because someone has apparently noticed there’s a lot of sex going on in here and they’re making it difficult to find. When I put my name in as a search term the site just gave me several pages of clothing from some guy named Ralph.
Getting serious here, it seems that my mother still believes there was something funny going on in the last election. So do I, but what I’m inclined to question is entirely different from what she thinks happened. “It was those voting machines,” she says. Maybe, but not the ones you’re thinking of, Mom. I’m a lot more suspicious of how McConnell managed to get reelected, despite being such a miserable excuse for a human being. I don’t see much of problem with the Dominion machines. I really think the Reps dislike them because they’re so freaking difficult to tamper with. If you could somehow rig them to change votes at the input stage, the voter would be able to see it on the printout that goes into the scanner. And if you fucked with the scanners, then the count wouldn’t match the paper ballots. Which they did in all but one case, and that one had to do with some ballots being laid out wrong because of a local race, not with any attempt at fraud.
They want an audit? Okay, but you realize most fourth graders could manage that, right? The machines they like, on the other hand, look like they’re a lot easier to screw around with. Guess who won most of those elections.
On the bright side, even if Fearless Leader doesn’t get convicted in the Senate–and there’s a pretty good chance he won’t, considering the number of Republican senators who’ve essentially said they won’t even consider the evidence, they’re just going to vote to acquit–it looks like Georgia will be hauling his ass into court for election tampering. With any luck they can get Graham as well. I’m not sure if they have him on tape, but they’ve got the big guy, and Georgia is a “one-party consent” state, so the tape is admissible in court.
And, of course, New York will be going after him for a lot of questionable stuff involving his businesses. In the end, it may not even matter whether he’s convicted in the Senate and barred from holding office in the future. There’s a pretty good chance he’ll be living somewhere that won’t let him run anyway.
That’s an interesting legal question. If a prisoner managed to get himself elected President, do they have to let him out so he can serve? Or does he have to try to run things from the Ossining White House? Honestly, I think that would at the very least be 25th Amendment time. Being locked up for, well, in his case, probably the rest of his life (given his age and life expectancy), would certainly constitute a viable impediment to fulfilling official duties.