The Economic Blackout
begins tonight at 12:00am and goes all day tomorrow (Friday) until 11:59pm.

It's never over! Well, unless people begin to accept everything that's happening as "normal" - then it's pretty much over. The point: Never settle for what's happening. Resist it with every fiber of your being!

We really need to get our shit together, people. We're totally embarrassing ourselves in front of all the extraterrestrials. The rest of the Milky Way is watching. Act like it!

Throughout history, when times have gotten difficult, networking has been especially important (even before the word "networking" existed). There has been a lot of fallout in the short time since Trump has taken office. People are concerned. They are confused. They are afraid.
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So Facebook is doing away with fact-checking... When I consider some of the things Facebook flagged while considering all of the spam posts they gave a pass to, I actually thought their fact-checking kinda sucked. ...

From NASA Administrator, Bill Nelson:

NASA’s Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object from Earth, now heading into interstellar space, carries a message from President Carter that captures his core values and grace:

This is my jam:) Live for something bigger...
youtu.be/N616HFar4Yk?...

I just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a safe and happy new year. It breaks my brain to think that tomorrow, it will be the 25th year of the 2000s.

People can critique Carter's presidency however they wish (I for one think he gets an unfair rap), but evaluating his life on the whole, there is no doubt that he was a human being of the highest character whose service to mankind is, and forever will be, unparalleled.

Happy Monday. Time to fire up a pot of coffee, scan the headlines, and play another round of "The Onion or Not the Onion"...

I may need reading glasses. I just texted the middle finger emoji to someone when I clearly intended to give them a thumbs up.

Today marks the winter solstice. From here, the days start getting longer. As in life, though we go through periods of darkness, there are always brighter days ahead, and opportunities for new beginnings...

“[T]he happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest.”

John Glenn

Live life like a movie - one that, when the credits start to roll, makes you exclaim "That was awesome!"