Discontent doesn’t seem to quite cut it.

Anyway, today is a media blackout for me, my heart has had enough. For this week.

What happens when you are reading two books concurrently: I started my evening with a chapter of “John Adams.” McCullough just totally goes off on Hamilton in ch. 10, like I think he has a personal vendetta? Unclear. Anyway, he freely uses the words “treachery”, “villainous”, “bastard”, “scheming” and so on — and not all of those were quotations! I’m starting to think the author is not fond of our first Treasury Secretary.

There was also a quote from Adams about the White House: “May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.” Welp. Henceforth, we are 0/2 on that score, John. Better luck next time. Hey, maybe it doesn’t have to be a man?

Anyway, after that I picked up the Theodore Roosevelt book, where TR is currently serving in the Harrison Administration of 1889. And whom should he befriend but Henry Adams, great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams. Hey I was just reading about those two!

Today I’m going to dress in my mourning attire and probably read, though I think I need a more diverting book than these bios of great or even average presidents.