It's going to take a decade or more just to assess the damage.

They test the sirens every month on Maui. We called it the rent alarm.

Yet countries that provide education and mental health care to prisoners are closing prisons.

Despite his troubling history, I believe Plantner did wake some people up.

The reason guys in prison hate pedophiles is because many of them were abused as children. It's nothing to joke about.

Thank you for calling Senator McConnell. Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line. Your call will be answered in the order received.

July the fifth

Jonathan Banks reprises him Mike Ehrmantraut character from Breaking Bad for a message for America’s 250th "There is right vs. left. And there is right vs. wrong"

It has been a long, cherished fantasy of mine that President Jabba the Hut gets struck down by a lightning bolt.

Article 3, section 1 states in part: the Judges shall hold their office during good Behavior " Hmmm

The USA celebrates its 251st anniversary

New Playlist: My manager robbed me. First up Queen, Death On Two Legs.

I read his biography, fascinating.

Very good article on energy.

Facebook folk getting their knickers in a knot about Ukraine recruiting in jails. I guess they don't know what soldiers do for a living.

It's interesting that Apple wants nothing to do with A. I. When the bubble pops, they'll be fine.

The Economist used to refer to certain countries as "kleptocracies."

Mom never forgave me for the green food coloring on the white cat that one Easter.

I've spent the better part of 66 years wondering how much more people will be willing to put up with. I mean, we're in serious French Revolution territory here.

I'm under assault by constant distraction, constant bad news. It's like the only time I can think is when I'm asleep.

"I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit." -- Mel Brooks, born #OTD 1926

“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow

The same people who build, improve and breathe life into our country are the ones we are always trying to keep out. A nation of immigrants filled with fear, hate and ultimately, self-loathing.

We need a luxury tax that includes stock, property, yaughts,etc. 50% over 10 million, as a start.

“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.” — Bertrand Russell

All the insiders denouncing Trump are jockeying to get control of his death cult.

"The President is clearly insane and insanest of all on the glories of war." Mark Twain on Theodore Roosevelt

Never gets old

Poem for Juneteenth. From Robert Hayden's Collected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9780871406798 #poem #booksky #writing

For Mark.

Sometimes, I miss those Ohio summer thunderstorms.