{"id":2401,"date":"2018-03-23T19:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T23:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2018-03-23T19:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T23:20:20","slug":"23mar2018-ocf-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/23\/23mar2018-ocf-update\/","title":{"rendered":"23MAR2018 \u2013 OCF Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I\u2019m back in the saddle at work again and catching up here on the site.\u00a0 I\u2019m halfway through Robert Silverberg\u2019s Lord Valentine\u2019s Castle (hat tip to Tom) and should have the review soon.\u00a0 And based on the story so far, I think I\u2019ll read the other two books at some point.\u00a0 I have some movie and tv reviews coming up very soon.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got over a thousand photos from the Southwest to edit and rate so I should have a few photo posts coming up soon.\u00a0 The political situation is like some kind of crazy kaleidoscopic nightmare.\u00a0 It sounds like Ray Bradbury\u2019s formula for his stories, \u201cThe trip\u2014exactly one-half exhilaration, exactly one-half terror.\u201d\u00a0 And now we know just how many women are willing to admit to having sex with Donald Trump.\u00a0 I guess he was right about them letting him grab them.\u00a0 But they do seem to have been paid for the experience.\u00a0 Trump truly believes in capitalism.\u00a0 Well at least he wasn\u2019t attacking them like Slick Willie.\u00a0 Either way things seem to be going well.\u00a0 The Republicans are afraid of losing the House, blah, blah, blah.\u00a0 Well they are pretty lame so anything is possible.\u00a0 But they really should embrace populism and try to show some backbone.\u00a0 It is the smart move.\u00a0 I still have to read some of the political columns I missed but whether there is something important to share remains to be seen.\u00a0 From my point of view Trump needs to clean the stables and drain the swamp.\u00a0 Then he can move onto policy.\u00a0 And he needs to punish the sanctuary cities and send the illegals home.\u00a0 And finally, Justice Kennedy, go away, now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I\u2019m back in the saddle at work again and catching up here on the site.\u00a0 I\u2019m halfway through Robert Silverberg\u2019s Lord Valentine\u2019s Castle (hat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,5,239,818,3,237,4,242,6,240],"tags":[157,580],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-current-events","category-movie-reviews","category-ocf","category-photography","category-reviews","category-sff","category-sff-book-reviews","category-trump","category-tv-reviews","tag-ocf","tag-ocf-update"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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