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Harsh Your Mellow Monday: What Did You Expect? Edition

On this Monday before Thanksgiving, which is in the opposite spirit of Harsh Your Mellow Monday, let us pause and reflect…

Andrew Donaldson
9 min readNov 23, 2020
“Metropolis”, directed by Fritz Lang, 1927. F.W. Murnau Foundation

On this Monday before Thanksgiving, which is in the opposite spirit of Harsh Your Mellow Monday, let us pause and reflect on the many, many takes in which folks have unjustly found their mellow. Those poor souls, not realizing they should not be so comfortable in being wrong, can at least be thankful that we few, we happy few, are here to correct the error of their ways in the conventional thinking that has lead them astray. Bless their hearts.

The “Who’s That” Cabinet

Former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden speaking with the media at the 2019 Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, 8 August 2019. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons

One of the easiest things in the world to predict was that that social media would get most of the Biden cabinet picks wrong in the usual prognostication portion of the political silly season that runs from the end of the election till the inauguration of the incoming regime. And silly some of those predictions were, where folks had a fifth of the Democratic Senate contingent suddenly abandoning the cushiest of jobs for the grunt work and anonymity of…

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Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson

Written by Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media

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