We've been silent but we're not gone.
The fact is we've been spiritually, mentally, and intellectually paralyzed by the sheer weight of idiocy, corruption, solipsism, malfeasance, rottenness, barbarity, vulgarity, wrongness, cupidity, bad acting, cretinism, stupidity, vileness, depravity, and ugliness spewing from the sphincters of the Trump administration.
We're doing our best to recover, and expect to get back to a somewhat regular schedule in the next few days.
Meanwhile we leave you with some words that every sincere American needs to commit to memory. (Yes, we've posted these before, but they bear frequent repeating):
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, …
" … when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them [the people] under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." (My italics)
--- Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
--- Abraham Lincoln, First inaugural address
Write these words on the walls of buildings and in schoolrooms and in your minds and hearts.
La lutte continue!
--- Diogenes, 15 July 2025