Open Up!

The R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant during Open Doors Toronto, 29 May, 2022

The travel booking aggregator KAYAK is currently running ads on the Internet showing families having hysterical fights because one of them is a “KAYAK denier”, which is a nervy appropriation of a painful cultural wound. But the ads are funny, especially the one with the mom telling her kids, just before she stalks off, to OPEN THEIR EYES. 

Speaking of open wounds, I watched the first episode of the January 6 Committee hearings on June 9. The Committee told us then what we've known all along. January 6 2021 happened because Donald Trump wanted to overturn the results of a free and fair election. 

Video footage showed rioters reading Trump’s tweets aloud, just to dispel any doubts about what motivated them.

But, of course, there will be doubts. Doubts manufactured by disavowals of the process. 

People who lie for a living will accuse the committee of spreading falsehoods. Not everyone will believe the professional liars, but everyone's attention will be focused on those who do, because of our fascination with the idea that nothing is true anymore.

Well, KAYAK is true. So there's one thing to hold onto.

Thanks for reading!

Have a great week!

Karen

This week's charcuterie was on Lil Clark's vintage
glass and chrome lazy susan -
so a lazy charcuterie perhaps, or a 
charcuterie susan.