Aristus
Aristus's JournalLost another patient last night.
Cardiogenic shock. I just got the notice from the hospital. He was admitted ten days ago, and then put on comfort measures. He was only fifty.
Don't ever let anyone tell you that life on the streets is some kind of picnic; that homeless people "choose" to be homeless, and that they're living it easy, no job, no rent, no responsibilities. It's heartless blame-the-victim bullshit.
Our dystopian country is really taking it out of the young people.
My 22 year-old grandson just got a vasectomy. He has no kids, and only one (maybe) pregnancy scare in his history. But he got a vasectomy the other day, because although we live in liberal Western Washington, he's not taking any chances with the PTB. He, like a lot of politically-engaged young people, sees the writing on the wall. He senses the police state we're turning into.
Mrs. Aristus and I were talking to his SO the other day, a transgender man, about jobs and work and what sort of working life they are moving towards. (They both live with us.) We talked about the huge sacrifices Mrs. Aristus and I had to make in order to get the education necessary for high-paying jobs.
He said he doesn't want to make sacrifices, and doesn't see a potential for anything better than his low-paying retail job. At first I was a little non-plussed, and could feel myself gearing up for a "kids these days" response.
But I actually got what he was trying to say: We adults have ruined American society and the American economy, and left young people with very little hope for the future, and no hope that sacrifices today will earn them anything worth having in the future.
And that's leaving the ravages of climate change entirely out of the picture. Factor that back in, and young people today have very little to look forward to. Our desire for low taxes and a threadbare social safety net have killed their future.
Friday Night Vodka Buzz. Ask me anything.
Enjoying the last weeknight of vacation. Two more days and back to work.
I love you all… 
If SCOTUS brings back "Wife must have husband's permission before..."
and there is some sort of catastrophic event like an earthquake or a hurricane, just know that it was likely caused by Mrs. Aristus blowing her stack and going on a rampage.
Mrs. Aristus spent the fifteen years of her first marriage having to ask her asshole husband permission for anything unless she wanted to get slammed up against a wall.
She has never and will never have to do that with me. But she will be damned if she is required to do it by law.
She manages her own credit cards, her own bank accounts, and buys her own cars. And she ain’t going back, folks.
Friday Night Vodka Buzz. Ask me anything.
Unspooling after a long, crazy day in clinic. On vacation for a week. No excitement for the Fourth this year; there’s no real freedom to celebrate. Even the British monarchy we broke away from is saying “Crikey! Get your shite together, Yanks!”
I love you all. That, at least, will never change…
Joan of Arc was put to death for making rape more difficult.
History says witchcraft, but Joan was put to death for the capital crime of wearing men’s clothing. Trousers made it more difficult for an enemy soldier to exercise his ‘right’ to rape. Skirts made that easier. Joan of Arc was executed for defending herself against the possibility of being raped.
That jaw-dropping level of ghoulish misogyny is alive and well in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Do women routinely try on each others' shoes?
Let me back up and explain that question.
My poor stepson has been married and divorced twice so far (I may be biased, but neither was his fault at all). Both times, he was married to a woman who, among other transgressions, thought nothing of rooting through Mrs. Aristus' closet and trying on all her shoes. Mrs. Aristus has small, delicate feet, and neither of them did, so they ruined more than a few pairs.
Is this a thing? Do women actually do this? Or was this just a symptom of the larger issues plaguing the women my stepson chose to marry?
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