Up on the Rez, no matter who you are, the first thing that happens, without warning, when you walk into the supermarket called Bashas is that a law enforcement officer pulls out his gun and puts it right between your eyes. <\/p>\n
You think I’m joking? Well … not exactly. It’s a temperature gun.<\/p>\n
Before I walked into the Moenkopi Bashas store today, that had never, ever happened to me anywhere in this world. <\/p>\n
And my question is: Why the everloving fuck not?<\/p>\n
In the rest of the capitalist empire, even mask use has gone from a nice option to an increasingly rare sight. In Moenkopi, every single person is wearing. The cop with the gun made sure of it, on their way in. <\/p>\n
I’m still very much in favor of defunding the police. <\/p>\n
But not that guy. Fund him through Christmas at least.<\/p>\n
Later, we were the rare tourists on what you might call the East Rim of the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n
As I think somewhat reluctantly about going back to some kind of job, a job up there is looking very tempting indeed.<\/p>\n
There was even one job listed for an IT hotshot, which I am, at 65-85K plus federal benefits. Unfortunately you already had to be a federal employee (or a vet, or something else otherwise privileged) to even apply
\n… learning that took some wind out of my sails. <\/p>\n
But not all of it. Not all of them. Sails. You know what I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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