Heather Menzies Jones
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What Fresh Hell?

Berlin - March 8, 2018

 

I woke up last night – not unusual – I wake up many nights at two or three regardless of wine or coffee – I’ve heard that sleep is disrupted at my age – people joke about it, although it’s not so amusing when it’s dark and one’s mind churns. I try to remember my German lessons, which article, das, der, die – which one adheres to which noun. Then a name becomes stuck. I can’t remember someone’s name a name that would have at one point in the past tripped off my tongue but now it unglues itself and only hours or days later will it pop unbidden into my head and I think I’m coming down with my heritable brand of cognitive decline.

I can’t be the only one . . . 

I can’t be the only one . . . 

For many of us these days, healthful, mindful, proper mental hygiene habits have been jettisoned in favor of: 

  • nail biting
  • stress eating
  • Rally bus riding
  • Pussy hat wearing
  • Chardonnay drinking
  • Choir preaching
  • Charles and David Koch obsessing
  • Caffeine ingesting while composing post-card screeds to Republican members of congress

AND

  • Reading the most hair-raising, politically apocalyptic stuff, preferably when wrenched wide awake at two or three in the morning. 

Titles from my kindle library – enjoy!

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar

The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right” by Jon Ronson

Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus by Matt Taibbi

Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire by Matt Taibbi

Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History by Matt Taibbi

Sleep tight!

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