@Amanda Matthews @snoopydawg @ek hornbeck

As you may or may not know since almost one and a half years I try to keep in contact with the caucus99percent community reading the essays and comments from Germany. Aside from quite heavy personal distractions that became more difficult than I could foresee, I had to learn to 'look through' the German main stream media news coverage, which was quite difficult, because I had not lived in Germany for 35 years and very much has changed.

Several weeks ago, I was profane/overly abrasive here in my choice of language in a comment, which led to a corrective from a longtime online friend, which in turn led to several more obstreperous replies on my part. For this conduct I apologize and request my friend's forgiveness and that the community here also forgive me.

For many years now, I've been complicit in perpetrating a form of discrimination I thought was just ok.

Thanks to the Supreme Court of the United States, and their many allies in the House and Senate, I now understand the truth.

I can no longer discriminate against Corporate Americans.

For today's Open Thread, I thought I would republish an updated version of something I wrote in a personal blog over eleven years ago It seems more important than ever in today's dog eat dog world.

This evening's music features folk musician Ry Cooder.