Thank you, Chad LaVeglia!

Now let’s please vote our state governor and Attorney General and their rotten isolation camps the hell out!!!

I am personally tired of living in a totalitarian city. We are all strong and all, but this is tiresome.

And I would be the last person on this planet to care about any politician. (As a Soviet expat, I am cynical about all elections and political slogans.) However, I am really tired of living in a totalitarian city!!

And I do very well remember being treated like a dog by a bartender, on my birthday last year, for being “vermin.” I have not forgotten. On that evening, I was merely trying to wait in the empty lobby, without any ambition to trespass on their precious segregated grounds—and the aspiring nazi-minded bartender really didn’t have to be sadistic. I am always focusing on the positive, always, but it was disgusting and abusive, and I have not forgotten.

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