Why the obsession with history, faith practices, business models, news and politics? One could say to know the past, brings understanding to the present and improves projections into the future. Another way to phrase the evolving puzzle of self or a population group: How I got here, where I am and imagining future possibilities.

Sometimes it is simply for self preservation and a moderately safe future. The US safety net has become an illusion for any US citizen falling from middle class to poverty. As a general rule citizens seem to have been willing to provide funds for a safety net it is just the nonprofits and governments to often use up or save money for themselves.

She Said It for All of Us!

A day or two ago Caitlin Johnstone wrote a great piece about how this time the war will be entirely different than the previous wars. Joe Shikspack highlighted the piece in his Evening Blues yesterday. I’d read Caitlin’s piece a bit earlier via an email from Caitlin and agreed with everything she wrote. Everything.

The propaganda and lie telling to get ‘us’ to support a stupid idiotic war is so blatant. So repetitive. I’ve heard it all my life. Surely TPTB could improve on this a bit?

From Streetartutopia.com

A mighty Imperial Armada has gathered around a planet country threatening total annihilation should the rebels not surrender.

I took a crack at this once before, and a lot has happened since then.

The current attorney general of the USA is under fire for harping on stock market prices rather than answer the Democratic Congress-folk's questions about some other Blue-ish issue.