pen america is captured and enjoined in the political assassination of freedom of the press in the person of julian assange. 

i'm reading bell hooks all about love. she writes— 

i awakened from my trance state and was stunned to find the world i was living in, the world of the present, was no longer a world open to love. and i noticed that all around me i heard the testimony that lovelessness had become the order of the day. i feel our nation's turning away from love as intensely as i felt love's abandonment in my girlhood. turning away we risk moving into a wilderness of spirit so intense we may never find our way home again.

and that was in 2000. now we're 21 years later in the wilderness of spirit. world domination, the death of nature, freedom crushed by the blunt force of military capitalism. 

21 years after all about love bell hooks has died.