I got to the grocery store early for more yogurt because I found a fake cheesecake recipe you’ll want to eat every day, all day (below).
Crossword (Done! I abhor cross words, but I love crosswords.)
Read more of The Children of Men. Damn, this is a good book.
Study French.
Workout at home today (kettlebell, mobility, balance, bodyweight exercises, stationary bike, boxing, & lots of squats).
I am working through the third draft polish of Where The Night Takes Us. (Greatest challenge: timeline logistics.)
Now, to that fake cheesecake that’s going to blow your mind:
1 cup plain high-protein yogurt
1 egg
1 tablespoon cornstarch
splash of lemon and/or lemon zest
Optional: sweetener
Mix it up, slam it in a ramekin, bake at 350 for 12 minutes, review Vengeance Is Hers and/or join the review team for Where The Night Takes Us, and enjoy!
Optional: top with berries.
You’re going to love it.
If you like 1984, The Burning Library, It Can Happen Here, or A Different Drummer…
A woman in a car waves for cars to go around her. ICE agents issue conflicting commands, one telling her to go and another insisting she get out of the car. An ICE agent steps in front of her car, phone in one hand recording, the other hand going for his weapon. Terrified and confused, the woman backs up and turns her wheels so she won’t run over anyone. No one is in front of her car as she begins to go. The woman is shot by ICE. A physician begs to check on her. ICE officers refuse. “We have our own medics.” “Where are they?” a woman screams. She is told to relax. “How can I relax when you just killed my fucking neighbor?” Medics don’t arrive for fifteen minutes. Meanwhile, two minutes after shooting the woman, the killer walks away calmly, gets in his car, and drives away.
In a normal world:
Law enforcement would look like law enforcement, not masked goons cosplaying their power fantasies. They’d have better training. ICE would conform to codes of conduct and have stricter rules of engagement than soldiers do in a war zone. Peace officers ask themselves, “Must I shoot?”, not “Can I shoot?” Being filmed should temper ICE response. It doesn’t. The shooter shouldn’t have walked away. His superior should have taken his weapon as evidence for the investigation. Call it what it is. He fled a crime scene.
In a better world, those in power could admit mistakes. They would announce that there would be an investigation. They wouldn’t lie so badly that anyone could see the difference between what they say and what all the video shows. The President wouldn’t claim the shooter had been run over and was recovering in the hospital. The vice president wouldn’t libel the murdered woman. Yale-trained sophist JD Vance (AKA James Donald Bowman alias James David Hamel) would know the difference between “immunity” and impunity.”
And remember when Kristi Noem claimed they had arrested the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa?
Whatever happened to that case? How has the press forgotten it? The original Antifa emerged in Europe early in the last century. That girlfriend must really be a tough old lady not to have given up all her secrets by now.
At the conclusion of Citizen Second Class, I found a relatively peaceful way out from under a grasping authoritarian regime. That was fiction. Reality is not so neat.
