The Bill Russell call to action on MLK Day: ‘What are you going to do with it???

MLKDay2025

#Inauguration2025

First we open with some serious celebrating.

RantWoman and the RSOF: The really important stuff today: #MLKday2025

Bernice King's call at the 2025 MLK Service

#NotGoingBack

Woke is a GOOD THING.

Oh wait. There was that other thing: #GrandpaSleepyhead and the wall of white people.

This MLK Day We Are ALL Michelle Obama

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Biden's Shock Pardons | Did Trump Save TikTok? | Snoop Dogg Plays The Crypto Ball - More Monologue

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There.

RantWoman is VERY grateful for everyone who helped find things to laugh about.

And RantWoman's head is about to explode so further chronicles will just have to wait.

Obama Presidential Portraits and vision for the future highlighted.

RantWoman sincerely wishes to thank Michelle and Barak Obama for grace, humility, dignity, and vision.

That is all.

No wait. That is not all. At a time when people are starting school (Knock on wood Seattle teachers get a good contract that addresses all the human needs in the community) and going off to college and stepping into unimagined horizons, RantWoman has been composing fantasy all-women Presidential tickets.

So far:

AOC and the Green New Deal Meets Liz Cheney and big energy and water resource issues

Michelle Obama meets Condolezza Rice about strength at home and abroad.

Either scenario above depends on people wanting the job, and ...

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End of year retrospectives The Best Of #HeWhoShallBeNamed

Help RantWoman kick 2021 and the FORMER President out the door.

Please note: lexicographic interest does NOT equal endorsement.

Also please note, RantWoman suspects this compilation reflects more than one year of name-calling.

 

International Women's Day Lexicography First Ladies

RantWoman is observing #InternationalWomansDay and #WomensHistoryMonth with the above lexicographic moment.

What the Hell Happened This Week? - Week of 1/18 | The Daily Social Dist...

RantWoman is a big admirer of Trevor, not only for trenchant commentary about matters of race but also for his amazing ability toto speak in a variety of accents. 

RantWoman is especially enjoying :"Miss me with your BOOLsheet!"

RantWoman hopes readers will also enjoy

WATCH: Harris escorts the Pences as they depart U.S. Capitol

First a quick link to NPR story about inauguration poet Amanda Gorman

Next, RantWoman, why are you posting THIS exact video of Inauguration events? There are excellent videos of the poet, of Vice-President Harris getting sworn in, of Lady Gaga and her amaing red dress with all the petticoats, of JLo, of the Bidens, the Obamas...

Why ya gotta post THIS video? This video is basically 15 minutes of well-dressed people, many in couples walking through various parts of the US Capitol. There is a military band. There is pomp and circumstance and protocol. But it's basically 15 minutes of people parading through and around the Capitol.

Compared to the #CapitolRiot rabble, this simple parade is a triumph. Plus, unlike the hordes who attacked the capitol, EVERYONE in this video seemed to be wearing a mask. They were not wearing hats to save themselves from losing 20% of their body heat through the tops of their heads, but they were wearing masks.

The MAGA mob was exactly the reverse: plenty of hats, almost no masks. Go figure. And in the meantime celebrate a Presidential transition!

Pandemic Postcards with Heartbreak and Outrage

As the clock helps show the Soon-to-be-Ex-President out the door, RantWoman, true to her psychic state offers here mix of snark and cotidian details drawn from life during pandemic.

COVID testing UPDATE

RantMom was thrilled to watch the inauguration. She was not so thrilled later in the day.

RantMom has to quarantine again, at least for a few days. RantMom got her first shot yesterday. Today she learned that her ACCESS driver from a few days ago tested positive for COVID the day after he drove RantMom to...a COVID test required before a medical procedure. Welcome to the #pandemic.

At least RantMom forgave RantWoman for bursting out laughing and even managed to crack a chuckle too. .Stay tuned.

A year of COVID strangely: 

RantMOM got her first COVID vaccination today. Irrepressible Nephew got his because of a home health care role over the weekend. RantWoman thinks her turn will be a ways off and is not too distressed by that reality on top of everything else. RantWoman is sad, though, about the growing list of people she knows who have fallen sick and even died...

Snark from Twitter: Ruin a Book Title with one letter.

RantWoman's contributions:

--Lady Chatterley's Liver

--Done

--Little Louse on the Prairie

Quips via Twitter on behalf of Latin America After the January 6 assault on the US Capitol:

"Of course the coup failed. There is no US Embassy in Washington DC"

"The US is keeping it local due to COVID."

Personally, RantWoman does not want to pay to house people who treated the Capitol worse than Fallujah. RantWoman wants to house the unhoused. RantWoman wants to charge everyone who can be charged. To heck with privacy: RantWoman keeps thinking of virtual dragnets to identify all of the "I'm not a Terrorist" crowd who took part in the assault. RantWoman wants these people, rounded up, charged with the most serious charges they can be charged with. RantWoman wants them fined heavily, sentenced to long periods of home monitoring they have to pay for. RantWoman would definitely add some community service, though RantWoman can also see where finding suitable community service assignments might be a tough road.

Not the only hopeful clip RantWoman has seen.

The Pillars of Democracy are holding

Christmas present roundup

Brother in law's socks turned up in the mailbox to which RantWoman had been directed to send them.

RantMom's present needs to be delivered and RantWoman will soon be asking RantMom to schedule another round of flirting with hypothermia

RantWoman is thrilled with a new mixer food processor combo. RantWoman specified what she wanted and dispatched Little Sister to suggest options on Amazon. RantWoman is a pretty simple girl and almost all of the options suggested just looked like TOO MUCH especially for RantWoman's storage and counter space issues. Soon RantWoman will actually make something with her new appliance.

Stimulus

After upgrading the underwear supply and some badly-needed new clothes, RantWoman still has part of her last stimulus payment in the bank. RantWoman has plenty of options for what to do with it. In the meantime, new stimulus will go for new shoes, a favorite brand with new guess about width due to changes in foot size. Add some new compression socks because there are new patterns and more importantly some old pairs are starting to get holes.

RantWoman is also on the lookout for a high-capacity exercise bicycle and more importantly one she can afford.

Food and Grocery Shopping Bless your heart Child.

Recently the Queen of Spades dispatched RantWoman to replenish the cat food supply. RantWoman thought she needed Olive oil popcorn; RantWoman has decided maybe not in the future just because if there is olive oil popcorn around, RantWoman tends to eat it, more of it at once than she needs.

At the checkout counter, RantWoman realized that the bag your own regime is no longer in effect, at least at that store. Store staff will actually bag one's groceries even if one insists on bringing one's own bag. 

Mixed blesssing: RantWoman used to managing her own bananas and avocados.

That day the guy bagging RantWoman's groceries did not ask RantWoman before putting all the groceries in one bag. If RantWoman hands the clerk more than one bag it is because RantWoman is on foot/ bus  and bus and has various approaches for balancing her load.

More pro tips:

Cold things in one bag. Things that do not need to be refrigerated in another.

Long handles.

RantWoman probably should just not have handed the cbagger the bag with the hole. Bless his heart. He put all of RantWoman's groceries into the bag with the hole. The hole is more than large enough to lose cans of cat food on the way home. Boo Bagger. RantWoman is glad there was a table on the way out of the store where she could rebalance the load.

And this, with new clothes and holes in a shopping bag, SO LONG #POTUS45!

U.S. Army Veteran Speaks Out After Capitol Attack

RantWoman has been binge-watching videos connected with the January 6 assault on the US Capitol.

This video captures one strand of heartbreak and outrage.

Why Do Black People Always Have to Save America?: Week In Review | The A...

May We Send ... Back to Scotland?

Scotland?

May we consider sending The Orange One off to Scotland/

Would the Scots take him? After all, his mother WAS Scottish?

RantWoman recommends this video for:

--reference to Blasphemy

--enough vulgarities to remind anyone why UK English IS different from US English. (Don't say RantWoman didn't warn you!)

Lexicography

RantWoman desperately wants to consider herself a patriotic believer in democracy, peaceful transfer of power and other concepts straining RantWoman's soul in the face of present realities. At a minimum RantWoman would SO like to find something positive and constructive to say 4 days into the new regime.

To hell with such aspirations.

RantWoman is going to receive the new regime in her capacity as language geek.

1. NO REPORTER who cannot do interviews in at least two languages EVER gets to make fun of the current Mrs. Trump's accent or her imperfect English. RantWoman would consider it sporting to look up how many languages the current Mrs. Trump speaks / has studied , but tonight RantWoman is not that sporting. Stay tuned.

2. RantWoman is pretty sure that if asked, famed sex advice columnist Dan Savage would advise the current Mrs. Trump DTMFA. RantWoman has no opinion about the likelihood of Mrs. T doing so but mentions the term in the interest of linguistic propagation. RantWoman recommends readers unfamiliar with the acronym use search engines.

3. As a public service RantWoman has resolved to compile and catalog terms she observes being used in reference to @realdonaldtrump  @potus

Tonight's entries:

The Cheeto

The thin-skinned small-fingered Cheeto

The Orange One

Orange Foolius

The White House Occupant

Obamas Welcome Trumps To White House

RantWoman is noting this video for posterity. There is much data here. RantWoman does not feel called to elaborate.

Transit options for the Womxn's March

Understand, RantWoman would go to the Womxn's March Seattle  on Saturday but RantWoman has a conflict. RantWoman has been to many such events in the past, so one more or less is not a huge deal. As a service to those attending, RantWoman humbly offers somewhat imperfect  transit encyclopedia service derived from living and having a relative who lives in the area.

RantWoman means it about transit. Forget about driving because there will be nowhere to park for miles. Plus, even if the incoming administration is peppered with Climate Change deniers...we all get to celebrate our hip commitment to exercise ...

The Definitive RantWoman  summary of good transit options for getting to the Womxn's March on Saturday. RantWoman offers this local detail as pointers and pedestrian paths. Readers will still need to consult their trip planner for connections. Also crowds are expected to be heavy so Allow Extra Time. And no, this is not down to the comma blind perfect.

Topical transit stops and the bus routes served by them ON SATURDAYS:

Light Rail
RantWoman recommends
the Mt Baker Station, served by routes 7,8, 14, 48, 106,
The International District Station served by the 7,14, and somehow RantWoman has not looked up by the 106. as well as the 550, 554
Capitol Hill station, served by the 8 to / from MLK / Mt Baker and the 60 too / from 12th and Jackson

Bus ROUTES to connect to:
4,7,8,14,48,106, 550,554

(RantWoman forgot about the downtown streetcar and buses that stop near 12th and Jackson, the 36 and 60. If you take one of those options walk the stops RantWoman refers to for the 14 are E of 12th and Jackson.)

BUS stops within walking distance of the park, with walking directions to the march.
The I-90 stop on Rainier, both directions: the 7 and 106

Anything that stops at the Rainier Flyer stop on I-90.
Example the 550 or 554 are one stop from the International District tunnel stop and a good park and ride lot connection to / from the Eastside.

23rd and Dearborn: the 4 both directions

23rd and Judkins: the 48 both directions

MLK and Judkins, the 8 both directions.

17th / 18th and Jackson: the 14 to / from downtown.

23rd and Jackson: the 4,8, 14, 48

The Walking Directions from Bus Stops
 the I 90 stop on rainier or the Rainier Flyer stop off I-90 on either side of rainier.
On the E side of Rainier a little north of the bottom of the ramp from the Rainier Flyer stop find the asphalt path up through the park. When you get to the skate park, cross Judkins and keep going N through the parking lot until you see the flat area.
The 14 along Jackson. Stops on either side near the Franz bakery
and thrift store. think big yellow 18-wheelers. Between the bakery and
Washington Middle school there is a nice walking route to the N side
of the Park.

23rd and Jackson the 4,8,14,48: Walk W on Jackson until you get to the walkway between the middle school and the bakery as above

The 48 stops either direction at 23rd and Judkins. Go W on Judkins
until you see parking lot on the right. then walk N through the parking
lot and up until you see the flat area.

The 8 stops both directions at MLK and Judkins. It is further to walk
than the 48 and Judkins jogs interestingly.


Questions? Corrections? Leave a comment or consult your favorite transit agency.

And now some other links for posterity
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/01/16/24803429/inside-the-debate-over-whether-the-seattle-womxns-march-should-be-silent


http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/cant-make-it-to-dc-seattle-will-have-own-womens-march/

http://q13fox.com/2017/01/16/womxns-march-on-seattle-expected-to-draw-thousands/

Happy canada Day before it's too late: kd lang O Canada 1987

Levitation

RantWoman and RantMom dined together last night.

One occasion was the RantBrother's 50th birthday. Another was the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Guess which one was a bigger deal to RantMom!

RantWoman has been thinking of anniversaries today just in time for a 45th anniversary to leap into mind.

http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/10/the-day-they-levitated-the-pentagon/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WagingNonviolence+%28Waging+Nonviolence%29

RantWoman is especially deeply amused by the detail that those organizing this spectacle were able to secure a permit by scaling back their plans: instead of levitating the Pentagon 300 feet, the group only committed to three feet.

Workforce Investment Act: we object

From the convention of the National Federation of the Blind:


ESOLUTION 2011-17
Regarding the Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization
Proponent:

WHEREAS, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions has distributed language for the reauthorization of the
Workforce Investment Act including a proposed Section 511 of Title V
(the Rehabilitation Act), which would provide for employment of
people with significant disabilities at wages below the federally
mandated minimum wage; and

WHEREAS, the proposed language of Section 511 would be a tacit
endorsement of the subminimum wage provision found in Section 14(c)
of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and its antiquated contention
that people with disabilities cannot be competitively employed; and

WHEREAS, this language links the Rehabilitation Act, which was
established to assist people with disabilities in obtaining
competitive integrated employment, with Section 14(c) of the FLSA,
which is based on the false premise that people with disabilities can
not be competitively employed and therefore can be paid subminimum wages; and

WHEREAS, the language in Section 511 that defines what steps a
vocational rehabilitation counselor must take before steering a
client into subminimum-wage employment is intended to prevent youth
with disabilities from being tracked into subminimum-wage jobs, but
is likely instead to track clients into subminimum-wage employment; and

WHEREAS, language in Section 511 asserts that employers holding a
certificate that allows them to pay subminimum wages can also serve
as training facilities for people with disabilities, a claim that
ignores the fact that job training services provided by an employer
holding a special wage certificate are likely to reinforce the low
expectation that workers with disabilities cannot be competitively
employed, since the incentive is for the employer to continue
exploiting their labor rather than prepare workers for other employment; and

WHEREAS, the Section 511 documentation and review process, which is
meant to provide safeguards against inappropriate use of
subminimum-wage employment, does not take into consideration the fact
that state Vocational Rehabilitation programs do not have the
resources to ensure effective compliance with the various
documentation and review requirements, including the six-month review
period in the proposed language, creating an opportunity to expand
the exploitation caused by Section 14(c) of the FLSA; and

WHEREAS, the good intentions motivating the development of Section
511 are likely to result in enormous negative consequences,
especially the validation of subminimum-wage employment as a viable
outcome for people with disabilities; and

WHEREAS, the language does not provide an effective procedure for
workers to challenge improper placement in such employment: Now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention
assembled this seventh day of July, 2011, in the city of Orlando,
Florida, that this organization call on members of the Senate
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to remove Section
511 of the proposed Rehabilitation Act; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we call upon all members of Congress,
not to address the unjust law of Section 14(c) with ineffective
measures, but to take direct action to abolish the reprehensible
practice of subminimum-wage employment forever.

Fifty: JFK Inauguration

RantWoman is crossing a major decade horizon this year. Not until July, but still, in an effort to help RantWoman adjust, RantWoman proposes from time to time to post reflections specific on life at this f rontier.

What better way to start than, ta-da, an occasion involving one of the most famous non-alumni of RantWoman's alma mater: the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. RantWoman knows perfectly well there is much to say of global weight and import. RantWoman instead is going to comment upon the practice, historically if not presently, in alumni publications of listing the class year, the year the person would have graduated from Princeton for anyone who ever matriculated.

John F. Kennedy '39 was enrolled in Princeton for less than a semester before he got sick and went to Harvard. Wait, there is probably a better way to say that....

Stay tuned.

A Bedspread

RantWoman found herself, during today's time on Da Bus thinking again of the inauguration and in particular of our new First Lady's ballgown.

RantWoman had a small digression to wonder whether the world-wide e-chatterers would be having the same conversation about a dress if, instead of the First Lady, we were discussing a new President. RantWoman thinks sooner or later, eventually, the right combination of campaign brilliance and personal history will add up to a woman President. Even so, we probably will be having the same conversation about clothing, and there is a certain level of heroism in just dealing with it.

RantWoman finally saw a still shot that captured what must be the dress's real charm, a lovely romantic sheen. The fur or feathers or whatever still do not play well on camera, and apparently that is true not only for fuzzy-eyed people like RantWoman but also for many internet chatters. RantWoman thinks the dress is a little full around the waist. That is not fair to anyone's physique, though of course the camera supposedly always adds 10 pounds, and Mrs. Biden's red getup also made her look fat.

RantWoman finds herself thinking that one does not buy ballgowns just every day and one might be sort of at the mercy of designers and unquestioned conventions about the whole ballgown concept. Rantwoman herself has worn floorlength clothing perhaps once or twice since high school. In high school RantWoman played the cello and the orchestra concert gear was a long navy skirt full enough for the cello section but otherwise fairly plain. At festive occasions, RantWoman, RantMom and Little Sister all took turns wearing a patchwork skirt of polyester doubleknit from RantMom's sewing room. Come to think of it that skirt did not do anything good for anyone's waistline either.

In short, if RantWoman were faced with the need for a ballgown, she imagines sort of awkward conversations with the designer: "Just make it something one can walk in. ... Nothing strapless. ... Shoulders are there for a purpose. Please use them to help keep the dress on. ... Wouldn't want any wardrobe malfunctions..." In other words, RantWoman's pedestrian practicality could sort of blow the whole purpose of a ballgown, which is really to look as romantic as possible, something where RantWoman thinks the first lady and the designer succeeded brilliantly.

True, RantWoman has said the dress looks like a bedspread. Other people have been even more harsh, and RantWoman does not regret in the least writing that the dress looks like a bedspread. The First Lady is the sort of person who would look smashing in almost anything, even a bedspread. More importantly, if one has to dance the night away on camera with one's beloved over and over, there is a certain sentimental symbolism about the bedspread comparison!

The same goes for commentators who thought Michelle Obama needs to stand up straighter. Hello! It's ballroom dancing with one's beloved, not media interviews about foreign policy. The Obamas are such a sweet couple and inauguarl balls are a perfect time to beam in their devotion to each other. I expect there will be plenty of other times for our first lady to stand up tall!

Inaugural Hair

We have just inaugurated the first African-American president of the United States. RantWoman could wander around our nation's history, civil war, slaveowners and slaves. RantWoman could venture into heady topics like demographic shifts in the US, apartheid in South Africa, and global finance. RantWoman does not rule out tackling any of those topics in the future, but today she really wants to talk about hair, specifically hair behavior, hair expectations, and mostly inaugural hairdos.

One of the paradoxes of how RantWoman interacts with television is that using screen enlarger software, she often sees details that would be totally lost at normal size and normal TV-viewing distance. Today's item of note in the greater detail is the Obama women's hair. for the swearing-in ceremony, Michelle, Sasha, and Malia all have their hair straightened and down. Some of the time one of the girls has braids, but today every one of them has their hair down.

First of all, this is one of those "the universe just is not fair" topics. People who have straighter hair go to elaborate lengths to make it curl and stay curled. People who have kinky hair take equally elaborate measures to straighten it and to make it stay that way. Now that our First Family is African American, are we as a nation going to get to the point that we can talk honestly about these contrdictory yearnings, say by complementary advertisements in the same publication or in day-to-day conversation?

One of RantWoman's college roommates was blind. She went to public school in New Jersey and she used to tell a story of her teacher slapping her hand after she for the first time brushed against an African-American student's hair and just exclaimed how different it was. Roommate said she liked the texture; she was just vexed to have her hand slapped for something she would have had no other way of finding out.

Once upon a time RantWoman went to Finland with some young professionals, including several African Americans. One of the duties of foreign exchange participants is to make gallant efforts to participate in local customs. In Finland, this includes the sauna, steaming one's naked self in a bathhouse with one's hosts. Sitting around naked among strangers with only clouds of steam for cover is, well, one challenge. The other of course is hair especially if one's hairstyle wilts at the first whiff of steam. A couple members of the group just bagged the sauna after the first couple days because of the time it took after the sauna to do their hair.

RantWoman and her sister are the other end of this tale. RantWoman as a child would have loved to have cute little ringlets. RantWoman was never really willing to put up with endless curling and mostly just enjoyed reasonably thick, slightly wavy locks. RantWoman's Little Sister was at times disconsolate. She has always had thinner, straighter, wispier hair and craved curls, ringlets, any form of curl that last more than about 3 seconds.

RantWoman thinks she remembers an episode of Little House on the Prairie involving rag curlers. Somehow the Rantsiblings discovered that in RantMom's childhood, wearing rag curlers to bed was they preferred way to wake up with curly hair. RantWoman remembers thinking that was darned utilitarian and remembers getting quite satisfactory results a time or two, though RantWoman lost interest much sooner than Little Sister.

But thinking about the requirements of inaugural parades in the COLD, RantWoman finds herself wondering what happens to straightened hair when one goes in and out of cold air. RantWoman is used to glasses steaming over anytime she goes from cold to warm places, and she wonders whether big temperature changes have any ill effects.

At this point, RantWoman wandered off to a different topic: hair care products aimed at African American women. Thanks to Google and Wikipedia, here are a couple links to info about really cool figures, MAdame C J Walker and her granddaughter Alelia P. Bundles. One of these days RantWoman promises to write about how she even learned of these figures.


MadamCJWalker.com


Madame C J Walker and business ownership


Madame CJ Walker in Wikipedia

It's STATUARY Hall

RantWoman is partaking of the inauguration courtesy of NPR, and she wishes emphatically to remind the hosts, that the luncheon is in STATUARY HALL, not Statutory Hall in the Capitol. RantWoman thinks she has been there, once long ago during a stint doing good and public services and internship in our nation's capital. Probably if RantWoman were watching this on TV instead of enjoying the radio, there would be even more things to rant about.

RantWoman actually has TWO TV's but neither of them is plugged in. RantWoman generally finds things to do with TV more enjoyable over the computer with screen enlargement software. Well somewhere in RantWoman's mind, RantMom's voice is saying don't sit so close to the TV; you'll hurt your eyes. Under some circumstances, RantWoman's Inner Nerd would be looking up all the reasons new flat screen monitors cause less eyestrain than previous generations of TV's, but we have an inauguration to attend to, and mercifully not by Jumbotron.

RantMom invited RantWoman over to watch the inauguration on RantMom's new (to her) TV. RantWoman pleaded late night laundry needs and correctly guessed that she would barely be out of bed by the swearing-in. Actually, RantWoman has morning exercises and those were well underway, but that is still nowhere near presentable enough to leave the house. RantWoman is aware that this state of affairs is a huge luxury compared to all the people who not only had to get up for the affair, but also are outside freezing their pekid behinds off.

Okay, scratch that: if enough circumstances had aligned to allow RantWoman to attend in person, even among the millions on the mall instead of in some more official capacity with accompanying perquisites INDOORS, she probably would have jumped at the chance. Seattle Snowpocalypse or no, RantWoman would have summoned every thread of her MT childhood and numerous rounds of keeping warm while standing around doing opinionated things Protest and Survive zeal. She would have piled on layers and made sure she had a good hat, a couple layers of gloves, long underwear, a thermos of something warm, maybe even a sleeping bag, space blanket... and some good peers to hang with.

RantWoman would probably still be cold but would know either to keep moving or when to quit and celebrate indoors. And since RantWoman knows her way around a good bit of the DC Metro system, she would come armed with fare cards both for souvenirs and for transportation. She would probably know a few different boarding options and even walking routes away a good bit from the massing throngs. Or she would be somewhere helping people keep warm and trying to make people flow smoothly, in solidarity with the planners fretting about how to get everyone out of the area when necessary.

Wait, RantWoman probably could have found a place to celebrate with like-minded folk somewhere in Seattle too, but this seems to be a solo act for now. Self-employed as RantWoman is, she also still has to try to attend to work while soaking up inauguration broadcast, letting details gallop through their various resonances with her experiences, and thinking about today's manifestations of public service.

Back to work? Not yet...