Welcome to Sunday Brunch. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and let us know what is new with you. For those of us old enough to remember the television show The Wild, Wild West that is now what we call Steampunk. It has been said that Steampunk mainly takes place in an alternate Earth around the Victorian era where steam driven devices are the norm. Randall Garret's Lord Darcy books are a prime example of Steampunk literature.

I got the good news from a couple state delegates this evening at our little progressive café’s open mic night. I didn’t do state convention, but represented Bernie at the 6th CD convention, which chose 6 of our state's national delegates, evenly split, even though every county in the 6th went for Sanders.

Folks, just to let you know the management is aware of the current performance slowdown and we're doing our best to pinpoint the problem. It started last night about this time and has been ongoing, I hesitate to blame it on server over capacity as we just did a large resource upgrade just a couple of weeks ago and the on site traffic has been relatively light since last night when it began.

Thanks for your patience.

Today, upon searching my email, I discovered that the anti-gun violence organization EveryTown has just supported Hillary Goddam Clinton for the presidency! Like many of other progressives, I am stunned.

This has always been a tough topic for me, especially the weight loss. I've always been the husky kid with the big belly and my weight was always up and down. In recent years though...well, I'm 255 pounds. Up until a few years ago I managed to keep my weight between 200 and 215 (I'm around 6 feet tall). This probably doesn't help with my physical problems that I've had since I was very young. I gained all the weight in my stomach which probably escalates my back problems.

In 1780, seven years before our present Constitution was drafted, John Adams wrote the following in a letter:

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

          I learned more than I ever wanted to know about Sepsis during the summer of 1952. My father didn't trust doctors because one doctor suggested that he needed to have his legs amputated.