The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systemically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good.

Pope Leo

 It's world blob day. 

 all we can expect from hope and change is more corruption.

 At last one of my library books arrived: The Oldest Bitch Alive, by Morgan Day. I said that to the clerk and she laughed. ({i}) 

 a mass psychosis. 

Fear and loathing, aka Bring Change Home.
I've been gentrified
out of a few neighborhoods.
I hope we can stay here, despite the Obamachron.
I try to wait and see but you see I have a strange anxiety
in my insula, which seems to have been born in my brain.
It's reasonable given the circumstances.
All along we've been told change is for our own good,
oligarchy is actually democracy,
and a cruel optimism has taken hold of us.
Even genocide now they call democracy,
and we can't save our parks, nor our neighborhoods,
let alone the world.

Chanté, Chanté. Om mani padme hum. Awake, awake in peace.

Chanté—Dogs of Peace.