"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?" -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I name my motorcycles. Tank stickers arrived yesterday with this one's name ...

Gainesville, Florida is losing its rainbow crosswalks on Monday because OWN TEH LIBS.

Be a shame if sidewalk chalkers recreated them every time they get removed.

Ah, a poem completion prompt!

Note to @netflix.com: "Raising." The Word You're Looking For Is "Raising."

It usually doesn't occur to me to ask people who they voted for. That's their business, not mine, so unless they just feel like telling me I'll never know, since most of them aren't like me.