Q: Who turned me against the Democratic Party?
A: The Democrats.

Q: Why don't I consider myself a Republican?
A: The Republicans.

They all suck.

I've considered myself a political nomad for many years now, a stranger in a strange land.

Scams Happen, But This One?

I ran across this article/story/whatever a few weeks ago. It is a first person account from a woman who got scammed and it's called 'The Day I put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger'.

As I was reading it, I couldn't believe how gullible the woman who fell for the scam was. She is supposedly smart, wealthy, highly educated... I'm sure crooks claim to be Amazon as a way to start scams, and I'm also sure that everyone's personal details have been released on the dark web, and are just waiting to be used. But, I'm still not entirely sure the story is true, there are aspects to it that seem unreal.

Pic illustrating the article in the New York Mag (from the magazine article)

There's a bunch of stuff disparaging Biden on The Nation's webpage. But there's also this:

Why I'm Voting for the Enemy

Have you ever felt you've been on this path before?
Sometimes the quake strikes in following my own footsteps from
long ago. Déjà vu perhaps?

The failure of our policy in Ukraine and the greater Middle East gets plenty of news coverage, while the failure of our policy in Haiti isn't as well known.

Good morning one and all.
How do you deal with a person who insists the earth is flat?
Well, you ask them to describe the underside of earth. Is there a bunch of roots hanging down? Will you fall off? Where would you fall to?