Paul- this is a fantastically astute thread- it needs to be an essay! R

love those guys

-Walter Benjamin

…The astonishment that the things we are experiencing in the [present] century are *still* possible is by no means philosophical. It is not the beginning of knowledge, unless it is the knowledge that the conception of history on which it rests is untenable.

One predictable downside of making it "no this is only about ACA, our only demand" is that does get harder to defend as time goes on and the shutdown pain stacks up. The line for giving up on that, taking its loss as the lesser evil, is much lower than "we're not funding this fascist police state."

so sorry to hear

you got home ok? I left early - yesterday evening- my flight was delayed too, but only 90 minutes-- imagine it must have been much worse today with the weather

just called DC office left voice mail too

gotta love it, yes

I've never been so happy to be living here still.

congrats!

God bless you both

kakania! love it

and pretty much always have been

thanks- bleak, yes.
planning on writing something further on this—
working title: “Owls at Dusk: Reflections on Damaged Nature”

i trust you get the idea

truth