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On United States foreign policy.  
I long for the days when our Presidents at least listened to the advice of their foreign policy experts, and even more long for the days when our foreign policy experts were actually experts. Nowadays, contravening this chain of logic, politics seems clumsily to enter and dominate at every point.
I do support our current expert, Rex Tillerson, who has decades of pragmatic experience under his belt. This supersedes most academics with only theoretical experience, politicians whose watchwords are expedience and votes, and lawyers armed with only guiding reflections coming from litigation.
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On Judge Moore. 
The Alabama Senate race pits judge Joe Moore, widely accused of sexual harassment in his past, versus Doug Jones, the Democratic challenger.  It is not clear who will win, but in the case Moore prevails, he may be first seated in the Senate, then forced to resign, then the Alabama will appoint a replacement, which just may be Luther Strange, the currently appointed senator.  What a strange turn of events that would be. 😊

It is likely Moore is aware of this, but he soldiers on regardless.  Loyalty until demise, has been the fate of many, many players in human history.
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Light and Dark
Yesterday it snowed in College Station, TX.  It was the earliest I can remember in many years in TX.   But that is strictly a white matter matter.

On another end of things, there are now challenges to the established science of dark matter* matter.  Like legislation, science also a sausage making phase.  In this case, if the theories of astrophysicist André Maeder prove true, it would ruin years of work, reputations, and expense of attempting to find this elusive dark stuff – needed to hold the universe together.

* https://www.space.com/39001-dark-matter-doesnt-exist-study-suggests.html?utm_source=notification 

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