l.p. - luminous pondering - hmm...

As much as I dislike admitting it, it is true: Between the two extremes that are represented so well by Ron Paul and Mitt Romney, we would have THAT: a not-so hostile, amicable even, foreign intervention? Hmm... Maybe Ah-nold should be considered, after all: for, if we open up the doors to the foreign possibilities, we'd rather have with (an alleged) backbone in the Oval Office, not some sissy from up north... eh? No offense, "cannots"...! ;-)

Is it a good tactic, I wonder, to blackout in protest of something that might permanently black things out all over... hmm? Wikipedia decided to go dark for 24 hours (in order to "raise awareness" apparently - one supposes that a simple banner/message on top of the page, whichever page is chosen, would not have sufficed?) so dark we go to protest the fact that U.S. Congress is merely discussing at this time the possibility of passing some restrictive legislation that would limit access to free stuff on the web, like we're all used to it by now... Wikipedia® chose to go dark indeed on the 18th of the first month of the ominous year of 2012 - and it is all for our own good, of course. Their encyclopedia articles have become the easy-access/easy-solution for any-and-all interrogations that we might have had, at any time during our cyber-lives - and to be met with a dark screen and a sinister message (though the hyperlink "learn more" does lend it a hopeful twist) ...