Wooly Hats

 Well, Texas and DFW are bracing for another Snowpocalypse...

Of course my next play is supposed to Load Into the Brand New Building Tomorrow, amid "wintery mix."

But amid all the angst of this little problem in the arts in Dallas...

My God!

The situation in Minneapolis! 

The government - OUR government - are murdering citizens in the street!

And then lying about them.  Blackening their names, lying about the threat they did not pose. Murdering a poet and mother of three who was leaving the scene after only observing.  Murdering a nurse, an ICU nurse who worked at the Veterans' hospital and who was protecting a woman ICE agents had shoved.  There only to witness and observe ICE's doings.

And what are ICE doing?

ICE agents - masked and nameless - grab a two year old baby to deport.  They grab a five year old in a wonderfully cute blue fuzzy hat with puppy dog ears to use him as a hostage to grab more of his family and deport them.  

What are the brave people of Minneapolis doing?  Witnessing.  Documenting on their phones. 

Armored only with fuzzy hats against below zero temperatures and even colder hearts...

ICE indeed.

Protest this.

Resist

Unknown photographer, please allow this usage

Today sees the new Trump Administration taking a swing at the environment.  

You know, all those "purple mountains majesty" and "amber waves of grain."  

But... 

some of us are kinda fond of the stuff.  It being our birthright n' all.  Protest has begun.  (See above, Greenpeace protest flag.)

The new government's first steps have been to stop the EPA acting and to muzzle it and Department of the Interior - along with Human Services and still other departments.  No public communication, no tweets or texts or blogs or talking to journalists or to the public.  Wiping websites of climate and other scientific data.

But...

some brave park rangers aren't having that.  Here's their response, an alt-National Park Service twitter page.  https://twitter.com/AltNatParkSer  Here facts and science and truth still have a home on the range.


ADDENDUM:

How could we pick this leader?  As usual, Shakespeare says it best: