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Another warm day, although as I get older...I've begun to prefer warm days to cold ones. For various reasons. One prefer sun. Two prefer warmth to cold. Three prefer air conditioning to radiator heat. And the arthritis doesn't act up, so I don't hurt. This may mean a change in plans regarding where I decide to reside in my latter years. Andlucci, Spain might be nice but it would help if I knew Spainish.

Still watching Falling Skies - and tv shows really need to stop type-casting certain actors as villains. After a certain point, you know a character is a bad-guy just by the actor they've hired to portray him. This happened with both Steven Webber and now Matt Cverchy in Falling Skies. Matt Cverchy is currently Grayson on Revenge and is always playing a bad guy.
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1. ( to be or not to be an American )

Mystery Writer Walter Mosely puts it best in an interview in the NY Times Book Review:

We call ourselves social creatures when indeed we are pack animals.

This is so true. Except, I think I'm more of a lone animal type, me and packs don't last that long, sooner or later I'll break away from the pack.

Speaking of Mosely...the rest of the quote is even better:

The change of century is a challenging moment for the world. We have to face our deepest fears and prejudices in order to save the human race and the planet we inhabit. We have to encourage strange bedfellows and forgive many trespasses. Science and religion, capitalism and socialism, caste and character are all on the auction block. The waters are rising while we are dreaming of dancing with the stars. We call ourselves social creatures when indeed we are pack animals. We, many of us, say that we are middle class when in reality we are salt-of-the-earth working class drones existing at the whim of systems that distribute our life's blood as so much spare change. These subjects can be addressed in fiction or plays, even in poetry, but now and again the plain talk of non-fiction is preferred.

2. There were two other quotes of Mosley's that caught my attention:
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Game of Thrones - Raines of Castamere...

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ETA:..there be spoilage in the comments thread.