Much of the world seems to be suffering from post-Maggie depression. I really wasn’t terribly interested in hearing about her, but of course I had NPR on all day yesterday and was forced to listen. One person – it may have be British PM David Cameron – said people would be talking about her achievements for “hundreds of years.” Really? I realize she was every Konservative’s wet dream of union busting and “privatization,” but I think she’ll be pretty quickly forgotten. Hell, she already was mostly forgotten before she croaked and brought lots of attention to herself. Of course, the consequences of what she and her contemporaries around the world (and her political progeny in the UK) will, unfortunately, live on for quite some time. As for her? A footnote in the history of Britain: Margaret Thatcher, first female PM. Bubble cut hairdo.

I’m sure everybody has seen that Mitch McConnell is going to filibuster gun control legislation in the Senate. I’m not really sure what’s left in the bill, anyway, except for a proposal for background checks for all gun sales. I think something like 90% of the people are down with that, but the NRA says no, so it’s no. Oh well, just be sure to keep your head down, and don’t be a hero.

Otherwise there’s not much going on/ It’s a rainy start to the day, but it’s supposed to get sunny. It’s my late day today, so I’m trying to kill time before I have to trudge in to work. I really would have liked to stay in bed longer, but the damn cat kept jumping on me. I guess I’ll have to start sleeping with a baseball bat.