Most of my news and current events coverage comes from my remarkable group of friends on Facebook. I realize how absurd that sounds to put out to the world. I am fortunate to have a strongly academic and well-read group of friends on FB and their posts bring to my attention an excellent array of articles about what was happening in the US during and after the 2016 election. Not to mention that I am a Wellesley alumna, so I'm tapped in to all those "secret" Facebook groups in support of our famous alumna sister, Hillary. I find myself more and more frustrated, dismayed, and outright disgusted by what is happening in the US. Part of that is my bubble - the limitations of what I hear and read and with whom I interact. And part of my attempt to avoid too much bubble-time is to work with the materials I have been reading and work to connect the dots myself. I'm struck, time and time again, by the utter chutzpa of the Republican party (which one can very well argue has ...