Category Archives: People of Note

The retirement of Lonnie Bunch and the potential end of the Smithsonian

Just notice I haven’t posted in month…a lot has been going on here.

For various reasons, we haven’t been home to watch Sunday Morning but today they squeaked in a positive interview of Lonnie Bunch as he prepares to retire.

The Rose Garden. The East Wing. The Kennedy Center. American Democracy. All have fallen.

Next will be the Smithsonian Institution with Mr. Buch at the helm.

This country is dead. If we split up, maybe one of the pieces will be worthy.

Here is the extended interview along with an earlier one.

President Jimmy Carter Has Died

Since the Twitter diaspora, I have lost track of some voices I followed. Some are on Threads now. Others went to BlueSky, which I genuinely cannot explain why I hate that layout, but whatever.

In any case, I saw this post going around from Qasim Rashid. More to the point, I saw him being genuinely touched that Amy Carter had read his words and responded.

Carter is the first president I remember, and the first live instance of seeing what the Republican party has since embraced wholeheartedly as they trashed his name and policies in an angry power grab.

I am amazed he still believed in this country to his last days. We sure as hell didn’t give him a reason to.