Atchafalaya John McPhee on the struggle to control the Mississippi River.

Looking for a Ship is great but is about the Merchant Marine. Atchafalaya is his piece about the Mississippi. Going to have to go re-read both now!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/198...

Thanks to Van Orden I learned about Marlon Bundo

Van Orden played the role of Senior Chief Otto Miller in the 2012 film Act of Valor. He also had roles in the 2018 film Surviving the Wild[8] and Running with the Devil (2019).[9] From 2017 to early 2019, Van Orden and his wife operated the Butternut Café[10] in the Village of Butternut in northern Wisconsin. Van Orden attended the January 6 "Stop the Steal" rally[11] and was present at the United States Capitol during the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[12][13] On June 17, 2021, Van Orden confronted a teenage library page at Prairie du Chien Memorial Library about a display of books with LGBT themes assembled for Pride Month.[14] Van Orden was particularly upset by A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, a fictional book about the same-sex romance of Marlon Bundo, the real-life pet rabbit of former Vice President Mike Pence. Van Orden submitted a written complaint to the library stating that the book was "skewing young people to think that Republicans are not inclusive. This book is not informational, it is propaganda".[15] A staff member said that Van Orden was "aggressively shoving the books around", was shouting, and wanted to know who had established the display so he could "teach them a lesson"

Hope you are enjoying all the messages highlighting your craven, spineless, two-faced, mealy-mouthed vote to keep buying guns and building prisons for the secret police out there terrorizing people. Maybe just resign? Let someone who gives a shit have a go at this