Well, it looks like I've entered another weird random book jag

where I'm unable to really focus on anything other than one book, repeatedly.

It may be a craptastic setting that nobody would want to live in, but I'm now on my third re-read in as many days.

(Note - book jags happen without warning. They say nothing about the quality of the book in question. I don't always get them over the books I'd like to get them over either. Though the books I'm rereading a dozen times in rapid succession often *are* good, my simply having a book jag should never be taken as a recommendation.)

In unrelated news, if this doesn't let up then tomorrow I'm going to go over to my neighbor's house and smash all his speakers, try to stop me. I'd send him a note, but that's just being passive aggressive.
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President Donald Trump tweets he and first lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19

I think it's tacky to say mean things about sick people, so I'm just gonna lock comments now.

It seems sometimes that hardly a month goes by

when I don't see somebody saying a variation on "My $PERSON is having trouble with $PROBLEM because of the rigidity/black and white thinking since they have autism."

This is, of course, an absolutely inappropriate and disrespectful way to speak of your loved ones - or anyone! Irritatingly, whenever I point that out I get some variation of "Your continued disagreement with me over this issue is not because I'm wrong, but because of your autism". I said irritating, I meant infuriating.

JFC, some people.

(The particular context here is "My son is having trouble understanding that the pastor he was close to at church was actually an abusive spouse who is leaving his wife for his mistress". Your son isn't having trouble with this concept because he's autistic, he's having trouble with it because he's a kid and also because this is a troubling situation!)

What does he want, a cookie?

Prince Harry says he's had an 'awakening' on racism, in a world 'created by White people for White people'

Wow, buddy, did you come to this amazing realization before or after you got married?

"When you go into a shop with your children and you only see White dolls, do you even think, 'that's weird, there is not a Black doll there?'" Harry said.

...yes, I do! And I've been noting stuff like that since childhood, because unlike some people I didn't need to have Black family members in order to have functioning eyes and brain cells. You're not special.

I'm glad he's learned something, I guess. Maybe tomorrow he can learn that women are also not doing too hot. God, this entire article is insufferable.