Claudette Sutherland

Claudette could teach an alligator how to write...
...and when I climb out of the swamp, I also offer guidance and inspired phrasing to actual people.

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

So just to be on the smart and safe side, I say, get a
tattoo. It will be a big relief and you can enjoy the life you get to live now free of someone throwing a monkey wrench into the whole "death" thing. Onward.

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

I'm heading to 83 but the paramedics will aggressively try to keep me alive and that would risk a bruised sternum and broken ribs. I might wake up in a hospital bed in pain and it would buy me a year or so to recover from being alive.

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

I have my directive with my primary care but what if she's the only one who sees it? I have a DNR bracelet and a yellow one taped on the fridge.

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

Got my last tattoo this week. I had a DNR tattooed on my chest.

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

@BCDreyer I understand he was tough on knees. Make of it what you will.

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

@BCDreyer Then he must have found the elevator

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

That line of doctors look like they were assembled and dressed in a wardrobe trailer.

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

Those who chose to not wear masks are those who are sure they are different from the rest of us. They are. They lack humanity

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

@Teri_Kanefield Censure isn't really for Trump. It's for the voters.

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

Cautionary words: "Beware the Jubjub Tree and shun the frumious Bandersnatch"#LewisCarroll#nonsensepoetry

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

"...No feeling is final." Rilke#Jo Jo Rabbit Rabbit

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

My bet is that Trump relished the booing at the game. He would use it to prove that he is victimized by the "others".

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

Yes well, composure is all good and well, but when it comes to something so deeply disturbing, vulnerability wins the day. . https://t.co/kSiWwhRI3t

[Rachel Maddow @maddow]

Ugh, I'm sorry.

If nothing else, it is my job to actually be able to speak while I'm on TV.

What I was trying to do -- when I suddenly couldn't say/do anything -- was read this lede:

1/6

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

Shame, shame, shame on you. You have placed yourself on the wrong and heartless side of history.

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

@benjaminwittes @matthewamiller Yeah, like writers don't submit their first drafts, duh.

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

@nytimes All it does is make John Mc Cain look like an angry old man. No surprise there.

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

@Kojackonez @GreyhoundNews Thanks

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

The EPA rollbacks prove it: He doesn't breathe the same air we do.

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

For one entire day substitute the word "protections" each time you read or hear the work"regulations."

[Claudette Sutherland @nolaavis]

Of all things in motion, investigating his Russian ties are where we are likely to find issues to prosecute. Let's get to it! Go Pelosi