Trying to make it look like regular citizens when it is just your own soldiers without insignia holding the naval base hostage is classic Putin – laughably transparent crude subterfuge but apparently successful if unopposed by united outrage and physical power. When do we make a stand?
For some reason the memory of the loss of JFK and his brother Bobby hurts more this year – the sense of lost potential for greatness of America. We have become more destructive of ourselves and others, more polarized, less healthy and less scientific in the last 50 years. Not that letting John F. Kennedy finish his presidency or having Bobby Kennedy become president instead of Nixon could have changed all of the bad things that have happened – or could it?
50 years ago in Germany they used and reused a plastic expandable net shopping bag for their almost daily shopping trips, done by walking to the local shops, where everybody knew their names. I was eight years old and still recall how efficient and friendly it all seemed. I was impressed at how large the net bag could get to accommodate the groceries. My Aunt carried the collapsed bag in her purse…
We’re all somewhere on a spectrum…