Your U.S. Postal Service after a visit by Musk and his gang of hackers.

What can you imagine coming next?

By summer 2026, will it be suspension of habeas corpus?
Appointment of an internet oversight board?
Suspension of broadcasting licenses and mailing permits?
Suspension of elections for federal office?

Borrowing a line from W.B.Yeats, as regards Republicans, the best (are they still around?) lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

From a reflection posted on my blog in 2015 "What is Art?":
An audience, and for that matter an artist, may be critical to assessing something to be art, but outside our perception, or experience, or assessment, is it art?

Final stanza of a poem I wrote last November, Awaiting the Storm Surge:

What innocence we held
was drowned long ago
in other tides
and dalliances with incomprehension
so shall we now go
inconsolable yet remorseless
holding fast to the long range forecast
and doubling down
on our fierce witness.

From Eric Metaxas' foreword to the 2018 edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship:
"They proved that even in this age nationalism stands under God and that it is a sin against him and his call for fellowship with other nations if it degenerates into national egotism and greed."