Marcia E. Letaw's Blog

In these dark times, our best solution may be a time machine. This luxurious machine from the 1960 film, The Time Machine, is a promising candidate in being able to fluidly move forward and backward in time while watching the world change before one’s very eyes. Although it cannot move spatially on its own, it seems to have some sort of gravitational attraction to the very ground on which it sits which means that no complex calculations are required to avoid materializing in outer space.

Is life nothing more than the narratives we tell ourselves, the stories we tell others in our attempt to climb out of the shadows, and as that story moves from mouth to mouth ever changing, are we, the source thereby changed as we float down the stream of consciousness of this tremendous novel? 6 stars for Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and many thanks to Javier Marías for writing it!

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.

The rumors appear to be true: The Statue of Liberty’s green card has been revoked do to her disagreement with Trump’s immigration ban.

Even in Utah where Mr. Hypocrite, Jason Chaffetz, wants to sell our public lands., the marches went on and will go on to save our country from being sold out from under us.

Tens of thousands of people gather outside the National Center for Civil and Human Rights for the start of the Atlanta March For Social Justice and Women in Atlanta on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Photo by Kevin D. Liles for The New York Times NYTMARCH NYTCREDIT: Kevin D. Liles for The New York Times

BARCELONA, SPAIN – JANUARY 21: Demonstrators make their way during the Women’s March on January 21, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. The Women’s March originated in Washington DC but soon spread to be a global march calling on all concerned citizens to stand up for equality, diversity and inclusion and for women’s rights to be recognised around the world as human rights. Global marches are now being held, on the same day, across seven continents. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
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Participants in the Dallas Women’s March cheer speakers as they rally outside the at the Communications Workers of America Hall on Washington on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, in Dallas. The Dallas event was held in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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A picture of another march in downtown Reykjavik Photo: Árni Sæberg