'No one should be killed if they are not in the act of harming someone else.'

That's from a Kirk fan.

Then he reconsiders his statement and amends it (below).

Interesting.

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I know everyone is still circulating the details of that 'Original Sin' book by Jake Tapper et al, but is it wrong that what really stayed with me from the New Yorker piece is that George Clooney has a house in Lake Como AND the south of France? I mean, come ON... www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

What is corruption? (Since this topic keeps coming up...)

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. Astounding words from the judge about ripping U.S. residents off the streets and locking them up without due process. Pls RT. People need to know this. It's not going to stop with just a few scapegoats and everybody knows it.

A note to you all about authors and journalists -- and their Wikipedia entries. If you read an entry about anyone or anything and it is just filled with brags, it is VERY likely the person it applies to wrote a great deal of it and is treating their entry as a self-promotion (example):

Currently enjoying

NOW they all want to speak out? Craven. Absurd.

A nonpartisan chart showing how Trump's devoted base is the last group of people he's thinking about.

All I need right now is this Zen guy in slippers playing cello on a hillside in Davos

Proper autumn foliage in Vermont has finally arrived. We are getting our colors closer and closer to Thanksgiving these days. It makes it harder to rake up all the leaves before it snows. But, for now, beauty surrounds us.

Well, well. Seems like I made it here by the inspiration and impetus of @bcdreyer.bsky.social & @liberallylv.bsky.social. Thank you. (And a view from my office in Vermont on the Connecticut River...we are still awaiting proper foliage.)