As I miss the bees and possums and butterflies and songbirds, so shall I miss the small planes lifting from Clover Field, their buzzing whispering to these earth-bound ears of freedom and imagination and unfettered joy.

Life After Facebook

Now we're all 'friends', there is no love but Like,
A semi-demi-goddess, something like
A reality-TV-star look-alike,
Name Simile or Me-Two. So we like
In order to be liked. It isn't like
There's Love or Hate now. Even plain 'dislike'
Is frowned on: there's no button for it -- A.E. Stallings

Seems fair.

Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., on Thursday introduced the “Make Billionaires Pay Act,” which would tax tech’s top leaders tens of billions of dollars in wealth made during the pandemic.

The “Make Billionaires Pay Act” would impose a one-time 60% tax on wealth gains made by billionaires between March 18, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2021. The funds would be used to pay for out-of-pocket health-care expenses for all Americans for a year.

The rest of the story:
Sen. Sanders proposes one-time tax that would cost Bezos $42.8 billion, Musk $27.5 billion by Lauren Feiner (CNBC)

Whew

Susan Rice is being floated so that, when Kamala Harris is chosen, we'll all go, "Thank god. At least it isn't Susan Rice."