I have been underground for the winter blues and have not been around helping to build the site. Sorry, just too much on my plate. It was with great pleasure to see that Pluto had joined us. I want to use this diary to respond in some ways to Pluto's Republic's (that's a hard spelling nut) two essays:

http://www.caucus99percent.com/content/americas-mein-kampf-%E2%80%94-20-years-later