I know this is really just preaching to the choir but I just need to share this because I can say here what I cannot say at GOS or FB.
I will never vote for Hillary. No one could pay me enough to do it. There is no carrot that she and her crew could possibly hold out that would get me to follow and no stick painful enough to goad me into it.
everybody's sayin' that
hell's the hippest way to go
well i don't think so
gonna take a look around it though
In describing the arc of 
her songwriting, Joni Mitchell not so long ago said:
My first four albums covered the usual youth problems—looking for love in all the wrong places—while the next five are basically about being in your 30s. Things start losing their profundity; in middle-late age, you enter a tragedian period, realizing that the human animal isn't changing for the better.
I don't know: maybe there's something wrong with me. Because though I guess I too am moving through middle-late age, I think better of people, places, and things, than I did when I was younger.
When I was younger, I thought that, though the world seemed to be controlled by Hairballs, it—the world, that is—would all become right, in my lifetime. And I, meanwhile, had a tendency, to become distraught, at every signal, that it might not.
Now, I just don't get distraught, any more. Because, I know, that that won't happen—all becoming all right, in my lifetime. But I also know, now, better, what life was like, for those who came before, as compared to what it is like, for those, who are here now. Because I have been afforded, the luxury, of traveling widely, in space and time, through history.
And I see movement. I see an arc. I see that it is long, so very long, but I see that nonetheless it indeed bends that way, towards all becoming all right. Someday.
Not, in my lifetime, of course.
Our government lies to us man.
No shit Sherlock, everybody knows that.
Wait! Everybody knows that and the government still lies to us?
Yep. That's a fact Jack.
When the balance of power shifts in the world, you expect it to be a Big Thing. Am I right? Bombs bursting in air? But turning points are often very subtle. And this one happened just now.
It’s “time to say goodbye” to the United States, said Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on a visit to China, where he and President Xi Jinping are turning the recently-frosty tide with bilateral agreements, while Washington now gets the cold shoulder.
To tell the truth, the legal stuff is not in my wheelhouse, but that seems to be where I've had to hang out the last few days. Tuesday it was DOJ to appeal injunction and yesterday it was Federal judges issue conflicting rulings. Today we travel to Virginia for the challenge of North Carolina's HB2.
I've reached a limit of sorts, kind of like when you eat too much at Thanksgiving and you feel like you're going to throw up. Or like when you're in rush hour traffic and you have to piss so bad you feel like you're going to blow but you're in the fast lane and no one will let you over. "You bastards, let me over!!"
We already know that Americans aren't saving enough to retire. Well, one of Hillary's top advisors, and probable Treasury Secretary, has a plan.
You may not know that Syria isn't all about Russia! Russia! Russia!
For instance, the pro-regime change Syrian Network for Human Rights had something interesting to say today.
