Speaking of IPs again

A lot of the US traffic seems to be coming from IPs in West Jordan, near Salt Lake City. Or Rochester. Same IP address, different locations.

Some more of it from a different IP is from Dallas...or again from Rochester.

Guardian: Blaming Institutions in General a Mug's Game

Many institutions and people of wealth and means are more trustworthy than others. Capitalism needs the regulation that democracy can provide to truly function at its best, no matter what some of the practitioners of the former may continue to want for the future of the latter, or of the rest of us humans. I'm not sure how much of what I wrote above is of a piece with the opinion piece in the link, but I hope you'll tell me.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/22/blame-elite-nihilism-envy

CBC: Out in the Open's Holiday Survival Guide

Piya Chattopadhyah provides a guide to coping with some of the things we have to cope with during the winter holidays. Grief, alcoholism, bigoted relatives, staying away from home, interfaith coping...see if there's something here that helps you.

Movies I Watched in 2016

• Concussion


• Captain America: Civil War


• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice


• Star Trek: Beyond


• Independence Day: Resurgence


• Deepwater Horizon


• Arrival


• Miss Sloane

Two docudramas, three sci-fi dramas, two superhero movies, and a "plucky/ruthless lobbyist does good" movie. It's like I've been slowly abandoning TV for the movie theatres.

Films I've yet to see before end-of-year:

• Rogue One


• Doctor Strange

And in an odd note, this officially puts me over the 4,000 mark in terms of posts I've uploaded to my own Livejournal and to assorted LJ communities since signing onto LJ as a member/user in October 2005.

WTH: Gender Equality in the US

From NPR:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/22/506629695/trump-team-asks-state-dept-to-name-those-working-on-gender-equality

Smells like one of those obedience tests I've been hearing about...

Tomorrow...

...I want to get back to drawing. Pencil, pen and ink, digital tablet...take your pick. But I want to get back into practice for at least some small part of the day tomorrow, along with everything else I'm expecting and expected to do.