Greeting fellow swampers and those who prefer to remain dry.

It has been a while since I shared with you some new insights gained from the world of genetics and political diversions. Fear not, your diligent swamp observer has been busy in the past few weeks (after digesting a really large pre-thanksgiving meal).

"We don’t grasp internally what an oligarchic class is finally about, or how venal and morally bankrupt they are. We need to recover the language of class warfare to grasp what is happening to us. And we need to shatter this self-delusion that somehow if, as Obama says, we work hard enough and study hard enough, we can be one of them."
- Chris Hedges

There's an unseemly rush by manufacturers toward building self-driving vehicles. This rush is thus far ignoring what I consider to be major concerns about the technology.

Much of the current expert analysis of the technology focuses on the data privacy issues involved. After all, do you really want private corporations knowing every trip you take by car and then selling that data to marketers? Or giving it to the government for warrantless tracking of your activities?

According to an article written by a leading State Department expert, this is the process by which the U.S. became one of the most violent societies in the world.

From you can't make this up file.

Did Someone Plant a Story Tying Paul Manafort to Julian Assange