K&R If You Think.

[niyad]

4. you stole MY clouds?????? I need them back.

seriously, I know what you mean. I keep thinking about "bread and circuses", and "beware the man who looks you straight in the eye--he wants to keep you from seeing something". In these modern times, I see this as wondering, whenever the powers that be have our attention focused on the latest insanity, what it is they are doing elsewhere they do not want us to see.

So I really thank the internet, thank international news, and thank DU, each and every day. This morning, the first think I saw when I came to DU was a long list of incidents about good police officers from all around the country.

I try to remember each and every day that the vast majority of people are, as I read recently, hardwired to be helpful, loving and caring (which means that the repukes and their supporters are genetically defective??) I remind myself to look out my window, and look up at all the beauty around me. I remind myself that I have wonderful friends, wonderful 4-legged friends too.

and I remember this rather bastardized latin phrase "illegitimati non carfurundum" (don't let the bastards grind you down"