Sorry, no audio version of this post from me today. In the aftermath of the Big Move, my whole family has come down with colds. If I tried to record this post, the result would be unlistenable, with coughs and sniffles causing constant interruptions to the flow of words. I trust I'll be feel better enough to record an audio file for my next post toward the end of the week. Just kidding. I may have been utterly swamped with packing and then unpacking what seemed like 60,000 boxes, but I still managed to keep up on the news. There's been a lot of it, including a war between Israel and Iran, and Donald Trump's military parade in Washington D.C., which some saw as the leading edge of North-Korea-style tyranny but which turned out to be a sparsely attended big nothing of an event. By far the most ominous thing to occur over the last couple of weeks, from my standpoint, was the outbreak of sometimes violent protests in Los Angeles in response to stepped-up ICE raids in the city, and the...
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