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I stayed home sick yesterday with possible food poisoning. I had enough abdominal discomfort to keep me from doing much other than lying on the couch. I had significant muscle pain in my arms too, which the internet says can be a food poisoning thing. In fact, I still have soreness in my arms today. My stomach is unsettled too, but both are a lot better than yesterday. We happened to have crackers left over from an open house at the condo (no one showed up), so that's what I had for breakfast.

Despite feeling awful, Danae and I got out later in the day to get our marriage license (moving-related bureaucracy led us to the conclusion that the easiest way to deal with a bunch of things is to be legally married, much as it annoys both of us) and to pick up medicine she needed. That was a miserable experience, but it's done.

Politics

The developing story about a whistle-blower complaint against Trump is curious, and I'll follow along with the news and see where it goes out of idle interest.

I suspect, though, that no matter what information comes out though, it won't matter much. To his supporters, it doesn't seem to matter a whit what horrible things Trump and people around him do. The fact that the US could potentially reelect someone like Trump is, purely in itself, enough to make me feel like the system we have has fundamentally failed. When so many people could want as purely vile and worthless a human being as Trump in office, it's hard to imagine it getting better in the near future. I just never thought, growing up, that this many people could think and behave in this way. I'm not sure I believe anymore that the moral arc of the USA bends, in the long term, toward justice. It makes me glad to be leaving the country.

What is Marriage Equality?

I seem to be in that state of mind where absolute statements just don't make any sense at all.

"Marriage equality doesn't exist anywhere until X."

What is marriage equality then? No one anywhere on Earth right now has it? How do we know when it has been accomplished? I'm not convinced that it is even definable in this sense.