Disappointing but unsurprising.

There’s a similar amendment on the ballot in Kentucky in November; here’s hoping for similar results.

A friend gave me this book as a gift for my confirmation nearly a year ago. I wasn’t sure what I would think about it, but I was excited about Merton’s connection with Kentucky, and I figured that if my friend liked it, it ought to be pretty good.

I finally decided to dive in and while I have a good opinion of it overall, I think my response is better described as mixed. Not all of the book resonated with me—I felt that Merton talked a lot about contemplation (sometimes in very interesting ways) without ever really giving any practical information on what contemplation is and how to practice it.

We’ve had a rough year of natural disasters.

I haven’t read Limón’s poetry (I don’t read much poetry at all), but I’ll have to change that. Happy for some Kentucky and Lexington representation in this way.

Good for the court, though the narrow majority is disappointing.

Je suis impressionné par le nombre de BD francophones disponible aux bibliothèques du Kentucky, mais c’est quand-même hyper decevant de lire une BD francophone en traduction.

Pretty upset about these results from the primary. I voted for the other candidate and was shocked to find Young won. At least I have a few months to figure out who to write in.

Religious freedom isn’t worth anything if it’s only a shield for conservative Christianity.

Primaries are coming up! Time to do your homework!

Grumpy about this this morning.

Wish that I’d been paying better attention to this legislation. Libraries are pillars of our communities and ought to retain partisan independence.

Worries about this picking up. General Assembly took steps in a bad direction this session, but they could go further next time.

I have spent a few hours this week reading violently anti-trans posts as part of a research project. My patience for queerphobic dog whistles disguised as feigned concerns about girls’ sports is at zero. So disappointed in the Kentucky legislature.

I do not always have praise for the local Republican supermajority, but I’m glad to see this goes beyond Ukraine to provide support for all kinds of refugees. Tentative optimism here.

Textbook example of why it is never enough to say you didn’t mean any harm. This is shameful and gross.

Tremendously worrying stuff. Taxes are the price we pay for democratic society.

Amazon already has too big a footprint here. Don’t feel great about this.

Disappointed to see more legislation like this under consideration.

Glad to hear this—and glad my state rep seems to me a voice of reason here.

We should all be concerned about this. Describing this as “high tech” in the first line of the story fetishizes surveillance. It’s gross.

I probably would not have read this book on my own but it was selected as the 2022 Kentucky Reads selection by Kentucky Humanities. I noticed that in a headline somewhere (probably the Herald-Leader) and decided it was worth giving it a shot.

I ended up enjoying the book a lot! It plays with themes of nostalgia and wondering if the past could have or should have been different. I’ve been thinking about both of those things a lot recently, including in the context of my faith transition. Mason’s Ann tries to imagine a past that would have been different but is unable to depart from the past that actually was, and for all my question about my own past, I know it’s the past I have, and I don’t mind it.

Nope nope nope.

Hooray for sports?

I am shocked—shocked!—to find gerrymandering going on in this establishment.