“I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take to protect me.” - Banksy

The Power of the Powerless - a classic essay that rhymes with today’s events. Just like the economy of the 1970s looks familiar - so does the principled dissent. https://ia801204.us.archive.org/28/items/power-of-the-powerless/power-of-the-powerless.pdf

Time to germinate, plebs. “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” - Venezuelan Proverb

“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.” — Benjamin Franklin

“What’s an expert anyway? Just some guy from out of town.” - Mark Twain

The gist of Wall Street: We take your money and our experience and make it our money and your experience.

Before the end of the year, forgive someone who did you wrong in 2026. Start next year fresh.

Steel upon steel. The clamour of honour. The harsh melody of a tune played out by the participants in a wet field, where drunken words are reiterated or retracted by the spilling of blood. No gentleman should suffer the suggestion, that he was made wrong by his choice of language. He speaks now only with his blade, and answers only to that of his opponent. The lies of his foe will only be declared and proven outright, when he has rolled his wrist and beat aside that willow of steel. To force his own to puncture deep within the breast of his enemy. Or he admits he may have been wrong or hasty in his accusation by lying face down in the dew and adding his own life-water to the dampness of the field. A gentleman knows the distinction between proven and unproven. As well as how it is resolved. Not for courts of law is he. Such a suggestion would court his scorn and one does not do to court such as that. A gentleman knows of only one way to resolve issue, and that is, of course. Grass before breakfast.

Xmas sunset w/ beach volleyball. Who needs snow?

Innocent until proven guilty, … but it doesn’t look good.

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Gm--

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭9‬:‭6‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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Are we entering a dark age?

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