I haven't been silent this afternoon. I've been silenced. My laptop--a tender 7 years of age--bit the staticky dust this morning. Sustained, even heroic efforts by a perfectly inept technician--me--have failed to revive it. Naturally I had nothing backed up; seven years of links, files, research notes, everything ... gone, all because I'm as piss-poor a manager as George W. Bush.
I'm using my daughter's computer (a Mac, which is alien to my Microsoft-embedded brain; for example to scroll down, I must scroll up) to write this brief but desperate missive. In the morning I shall attempt a more dispassionate post on something political. For now, disorientation reigns. Thank you, and good day. Mine stinks.