It's Memorial day, the beginning of summer, unofficially. Ma still calls it "Decoration day". Flowers on the graves of the kinfolk, most of whom did serve in the armed forces. That's who it was established for. United States armed services veterans. Easy to forget, since we live lives of casual indifference. People die daily, after all. Why worry? Ah, but there's the rub. We couldn't live like we do without them. Men and women who died as a result of combat, of service-related illness, or even of old age, but they share a bond. That of serving. Keeping civilians safe. A thankless task, generally. God knows the pay is horrible, the hours obscene, and the respect minimal, so it can't be for those reasons. Might be because they want to give back, to a country and an ideal that may be clouded at times, but still lives. You don't have to agree with them, but you damn sure ought to respect them. I do... I am one of them.

New Supreme Court justice nominee. Man, el presidente' really doesn't care where the shrapnel flies. Thank God this world ends, because the way this socialist bastard leans, we are all screwed.