6 February 2019 – Wednesday

496 down; 234 to go.

Finally a day off from Hell’s Kitchen. Finished “How Democracies Die” last night. Great book. I love the possibilities it presented at the end that our democratic-republic might be saved after Dumpster Fire if we return to the practices of mutual toleration (by partisans) and institutional forbearance that served us well from post-Reconstruction to Nixon. Even thought that period of civility was bought at the expense of racial exclusion and single-party authoritarianism in the South.

Finished “The Truth Machine” this morning. Also enjoyed enjoyed that book quite a bit. I would be interested to learn more about the technology aspects of distributed ledger technologies and block-chain systems. Not so much as cash-like currencies, but for things like reputation stores for some of the interesting use cases in the book. Wonder if I would enjoy doing development of that sort?

I’m going to start on “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad and “The Federalist Papers” by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay now.

That moronic deviant Wingate denied my second personal pass. It had been an exercise in twisted Nebraska humor that they pretended it was a possibility. I think now that Wingate is the one who has been sabotaging my process. He’s pissed off that he had to displace Burgos on the lower bunk when I got here and that I embarrassed him in front of his inmate-groupies when I corrected him about his dead-wrong story about human chromosomes. He is probably the one who “lost” my work release application all the while telling me “I must be coming up soon” for it. He denied a bunch of my clothing items too (suit, tie, socks, books, bag). He’s going on my Arya’s list (non-physically-violent version). Apparently this was a game of “dumb cop-bad cop” (dumb cop = Donovan). This place is ridiculous. Once again I hope they all burn in Hell.

Someone in Kearney gave birth to twins and then took off. They said no crime was committed because of Nebraska’s safe haven laws. So why are the police looking for her then? They want to find anything to charge her with and harass her to death or try her in Nebraska’s court of public opinion. They definitely do not want to be forced to care for these children, that they allegedly love so much until the moment they’re born.