We Will Arrest You
Sun, 25 Jan 2026, 09:00 PM (-06:00)
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner a couple weeks ago,
We will arrest you. We will put handcuffs on you. We will close those cuffs. We will put you in a cell […] We will do everything in our power to convict you and we will make sure you serve your entire sentence because Donald Trump has no power whatsoever to pardon you. [ref: WHYY]
More like this, please.
A Definition
Sun, 25 Jan 2026, 10:11 AM (-06:00)
David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
From Britannica:
terrorism: the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective
Words of MLK
Mon, 19 Jan 2026, 03:45 PM (-06:00)
If you don’t have anything nice to say, perhaps you shouldn’t say anything. Nevertheless…
The arc of the moral universe might bend toward justice, but that arc is evidently quite long [MLK speech, Unitarian origins]. I once lived in times in which its bending was manifest, but times have changed.
Today plain spaces are made rough. The straight are made crooked. Valleys are filled, and hills and mountains raised [MLK speech, Isaiah 40:4-5 origins]. The twentieth century grows distant in the rear view mirror. The arc is bending the other way.
Call Me Pop
Wed, 7 Jan 2026, 08:56 PM (-06:00)
It’s not that I worked at NASA. It’s not that I was a software architect. It’s not even that I have been a teacher. The accomplishment of my life is my son, Ben. And now he and Sam are doing that themselves (despite his declarations years ago that he a “breeder” would not be).
Lila (5 pounds 10 ounces) arrived January 6. (What a riot!)
That makes me a grandfather. So just call me “Pop”.
2026
Thu, 1 Jan 2026, 07:40 AM (-06:00)
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Start of the Day
Sat, 20 Dec 2025, 08:42 AM (-06:00)
They went up. They looked around. They came back down. What a way to start the day.
The Day Before the Cold Front
Sat, 13 Dec 2025, 03:15 PM (-06:00)
They say that a front is blowing thru tonite. In the meantime…
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