'Where are we going to live?'

Before the Borg, there was advertising. It too seeks to penetrate everywhere, assimilate all, asserts that resistance is futile. It too is loathsome beyond the ability of humans to truly express. Though many have tried. Rudyard Kipling, for example, when in 1889 he shipped to San Francisco, was appalled to discover the city to be one large gaseous mass of advertisting.

ISIS dominated Anbar province a year ago

This post marks a return to one of my favorite themes - that just about anything can be the subject of an interesting photograph.

This weeks assignment is: Boring (yup you read that right).

Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you.

We hear all about what it means to be successful, or rather, twisted American Capitalist tales of it. You know, the whole 'Look at that guy! He started with nothing but the hairs on his head and now look at 'em. He has enough money to buy and sell everyone a thousand times over and he's a job creator. A model for success, I tell ya what!'