Liberty State Park, NJ, under threat once again, from the oligarchic side of the Democratic Party. The Park's as close to a secular shrine as we come...the Statue and the New York City Skyline.
The Pause Before the Storm? Ukraine is not doing well, despite the propaganda, and domestically, the U.S. is on the brink of dysfunction, if not Civil War.
To the "Eastern Front" via two Russian movies, a brief tour of culture under Putin & flashbacks triggered by the siege of Mariupol...and my own displacements.
Mariupol in ruins, sacrificed as a Ukrainian "Alamo," thousands packed off to Russian "filtration" camps; may I ask: Just what are Pres. Biden's and NATO's war goals in Ukraine now?