{"id":18317,"date":"2016-11-10T04:15:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T09:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18317"},"modified":"2018-01-04T11:55:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:55:38","slug":"2-am-topeka-kansas-nov-10-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18317","title":{"rendered":"2 am. Topeka, Kansas, Nov. 10, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just woke up from 4 badly needed hours of sleep. I could use another 4. I&#8217;m sitting in the lobby of the downdown Ramada Inn&#8217;s lobby on an unfamiliar computer as my laptop died two mornings ago in Kansas City and it will have to be replaced. Amazingly I had backed up all its contents to a hard drive two days before I set out on this family research expedition. That was followed two days ago by my Chevy&#8217;s timing chain going rogue. I had to put it in the shop after five precious research hours lost waiting for a diagnosis and queuing up for a loaner car. On top of that the election night hubbub was clamoring all about me. Oodles of Democrats were in the Ramada before the most unexpected deflation I&#8217;ve ever seen on an election night. <\/p>\n<p>The next morning my Buddy sent me the following email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Harry<\/p>\n<p>From [your latest post]:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The better angels of our nature are in hiding.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nSo much for the efficacy of your ranting<\/p>\n<p>[Your Buddy]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Buddy],<\/p>\n<p>I am flattered if you thought my readership could have changed last night&#8217;s national election results.<\/p>\n<p>I will be satisfied if the local readers of my blog see fit to support me for reelection to the school board next fall. <\/p>\n<p>None of them will be able to argue that I exceeded Don Trump in excrescences or Clinton&#8217;s coy, pursed lippishness.<\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p>\n<p>PS. Speaking of efficatiousness &#8211; Do you expect Trump to sue the women who accused him of groping them and will he prosecute Hillary for her emails and corruption?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have been so busy I have not had time to mourn the election of <em>President Pussygrabber<\/em>. In fact, after that shot, I will back away from my promise\/threat to refer to him that way again until such time as he proves himself to have earned it as President. I&#8217;ll give him credit. He was well behaved for the first time in the last two years in graciously acknowledging his opponant&#8217;s humanity at his election night celebration. He was a good winner. That&#8217;s always easy. He&#8217;d already promised to be a sore loser in the event of his loss.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning I felt an odd exhileration that I haven&#8217;t felt since the minutes following my reading the now ailing Ralph Doty&#8217;s scurilous attempt to destroy my character in the Budgeteer three days before the 2007 School Board election. I read it slack jawed knowing that its having been placed on the doorsteps of almost [every] voter in Duluth two days before the election it would almost certainly dash my hopes of returning to the School Board and working out a more modest school rebuilding plan. I found myself smiling at the long slog I felt trapped into for the foreseeable future (it lasted three years) to fight for the right to vote on the Red Plan.<\/p>\n<p>In this election&#8217;s aftermath my &#8220;exhileration&#8221; may simply be the knowledge that the ugliness of the last two years is over before giving too much thought about how a Donald Trump Administration will proceed. But then, for the past month, my head has been turned toward the past. And that&#8217;s where I will proceed. I&#8217;m hell bent on writing a book about my grandfather next year. But I still have one more day&#8217;s research at the Kansas State Historical Society. I&#8217;ve been to five libraries in the past three days and corresponded by email with two others. <\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m going to head back to my room and see if I can catch a few more z&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just woke up from 4 badly needed hours of sleep. I could use another 4. 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