Alpha to Omega

Seems Russia is having problems fighting this war. Today I read Russia changed conscription to raise the age limit–seems man-power is an issue. Russia also has trouble with hardware; there's a lot of older resources such as tanks being thrown into the mix not to mention the shortage of ammo one reads about. I also read very similar things about what's going on in the US armed forces. See here about one class of naval ships out of the sea . Army recruitment is off 40%. Why did Ukraine need cluster bombs–because they couldn't the other bombs they were using? So if I'm in the Pentagon I'm thanking Russia for waking up the armed services as they ratchet up for war with China. It's real live testing of equipment and strategies. How lucky can we be? Someone somewhere is generating and starting to spread a plan for military inductionment. We're gonna need bodies. The system is in place , and if you vote you are registered; regardless, every man (including transgend...

Realized my expectation would not happen felt upset, disappointed, perhaps a hint of anger. Later I saw  my selfishness m y attachment to getting  w hile she honored her duty thinking of others. "...hope for a hundred years of life doing your duty. No other way can prevent deeds from clinging, proud as your human life".  The Upanishads translated by W.B. Yeats & Shree Purohit Swami

But will it doom the rest of us, too? Good analysis by Paul Krugman

Good read on crisis from the Atlantic: How the Pandemic Will End.

I just finished watching season 4 of Mozart in the Jungle and really enjoyed it. Came across this Vanity Fair article regarding it and wanted to share it hoping maybe you might enjoy it too!

The Republican elite allowed themselves to become so greedy for influential power by buying politicians, that they all tried to varying degrees to "buy", I mean support, one of the 17 presidential candidate, and in the end lost with Trump who claims he's self-funded and can't be bought. The main weakness of the Republican Party is that while it built a reputation of being conservative, with family values, really it is run by rich elites for the sole purpose of serving their best interests.  How is it conservative to produce goods and services at the expense of the environment? To wage unconstitutional wars and "expense it" to the middle and lower class, both monetarily through taxes  and with their children's lives, while the rich not only don't pay for it, but actually profit. But that's a tough mission to sell to needed voters since the number of the rich elite isn't enough to win elections–so we define conservative as funda...