We learn today from Pierce that the Feebies have been keeping a keen eye and a cocked ear on activists who oppose the Keystone pipeline because, you know, freedom, and that moreover they appear have conducted this surveillance at the behest of a Canadian energy consortium because, you know, energy independence. Talk about an expanded definition of "terrorism." Sheesh. As I'm increasingly fond of telling my younger relatives, nobody ever said that late-stage capitalism would be pretty.

But the reality is, with each passing year, uglier than I ever thought.

cordially,