losing ground , rising seas
hello! welcome (once again ) to the weekend ! wherever the reader may be chilling out, North South , East or West (or maybe slightly offshore somewhere in the tropics of Capricorn. it's been quite an interesting sequence of events. Election meddling in Ukraine that brought Victor Yanukovych into power in Ukraine's 2010 election (via Paul Manafort and associates) has now become a fulcrum for the United States of America to analyze it's entire electoral and constitutional process. We are dealing with a flawed election here, and while I dislike the President, personally I somewhat want to see him finish his term in office. He'll probably be too old for most people to find him interesting in 3 years. My country, I hope can learn a lesson from this, and gracefully move on: with all of the lining up of legal teams, it harkens my imagination to recollect a rather famous antique poem penned by one of America's most erudite writers of the common folk. It's col...