Lauri Love is accused by the U.S. government of hacking of the computer systems of various U.S. military agencies in the 2012 and 2013. He was arrested in Britain, a nation that we have an extradition treaty with.
So end of story, right? Nope.
Heresy! Gator--go back to the swamp. Well, communitarians, I have been exploring the swamp much of my life, and I can tell you is that you got your assessment mostly incorrect. Yes, Herr Drumpf's domestic policies are ruinous, callous, and environmentally destructive. Yes, his scheme for national privatization will fill the coffers of the 1%. This makes him a nogoodnik, not an idiot.
Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.
Good morning good people!
Senate Democrats look poised to relinquish significant leverage -- the threat of withholding government funding -- well into the next Congress.
faring thee well now
let your life proceed by its own design
nothing to tell now
let the words be yours i'm done with mine
John Barlow has moved on. His health had been shot to shit over 
the past several years, and Wednesday he at last vacated the corporeal container.
Barlow spanned worlds from Neal Cassady to Aaron Swartz. He was born into a wealthy Republican Mormon Wyoming cattle-ranching family; it took all of his life to shake off that imprinting, but in the end he managed all of it. A key moment came when, in conversation with Mardy Murie, he understood that money is an illusion, while the planet is very Real indeed. "Environmentalists can be a pain in the ass," Murie told him. "But they make great ancestors.” Barlow decided: "I want to be a good ancestor."
I.diots
O.ut
W.andering
A.round
I can say that because I grew up in Iowa, actually participated in a notorious Iowa Caucus and moved to L.A. in 1993, so I know it's true. They also elected Sen.Grassley and Rep. Steve King to Congress.
The story is about a nationwide problem:
Just about to brave the cold and go out for a meal, so you're going to have to pass messages between yourselves..... should you want to.
Anyway, writing of the cold, here's sculpted snow on our roof:
Remains of the day...
O, those heroes with feet of clay! We should be getting used to it, and never believe their campaign promises, but watch what they do. Of course by the time they ‘do things’, then…it’s too late. Allow me to go backward in time, if you will. Here’s some of the recent the recent evidence brought to my awareness:
Roughly 40% of people in Puerto Rico still have no lights.
