in the days following, I’d expect significant cyber-attacks from Iran. And I’d also expect Russia & China to file a UN resolution of condemnation as the world isolates from us, leaving us to fend for ourselves. If you thought COVID broke the supply chain, this would take it to an entirely new level.

It will never change until people stop listening to, and loving, calls for racism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, nationalism, religious hatred ... the list goes on.

They are the tools carefully laid out in the fascist playbook, which keeps being replayed rather often, because it works.

Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda:

I'm fighting for those higher values, not just spoken but lived and acted upon every minute if every day.

lived and acted upon

That makes all the difference.

respect for the inviolable dignity of human life

And blowing up a school full of little girls. Reprehensible.
Just as reprehensible as these two and little girls.



First must come accountability.,

I paid the credit union and insurance yesterday and may go pay the property tax today, hoping that it's ...

I got an email from Terminix today, saying that the guys will be at my house tomorrow to replenish the termite poison in the bait traps.