Disney+

If you are the parent or caregiver of children under 12, this is not for you.  I understand the importance of Nemo and Mickey Mouse to those adults who need a moment's peace.  Far be it from me that your offspring be denied the pleasures of the Clubhouse.

But, for the rest of us, the reckoning has arrived.  I cancelled our subscription to Disney+ today.  It took a few minutes with a live person on Xfinity's chat.  It felt really good.

The historians are right - they come for the comics, first.  

It's not just Disney and ABC, of course.  MSNBC sent Matthew Down packing for reminding us that hateful words lead to hateful actions.  CBS canned Colbert for..... I'm really not sure.  Big business means big mergers and that means that the government gets a say in what happens, and apparently what is said, too.

So, what do we do?  I've been noodling on this all day.  I graduated from high school with Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney.  Our parents were friendly.  His parents always impressed me with their openness, their generosity, and their commitment to doing the right thing.  His father served on the school board and was involved in social justice causes.  As Daddooooo would say after running into him in town, he's a mensch.

When he died, his obituary asked for contributions to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

I found that factoid while ruminating and stewing and fuming and trying not to weep about what FFOTUS and his fiends are doing to our country.  It gave me an idea.

SPLC isn't exactly focused on free speech, but it's adjacent enough for me to feel satisfied making an $18 donation (my usual) in memory of Arthur Iger, who always tried to do the right thing, and sending an email card from SPLC to my old classmate (at Robert.A.Iger@disney.com) announcing the fact.

I don't know what else to do.