I love this photo, which I copied from Al Jazeera. The look on her face, the phalanx of photographers – all, but the woman photographer, wearing variations of formal wear – the blown out sky making a back wall, all push the storyline. We know she is on a red carpet somewhere – I like to think at a film festival of some sort – and there are probably alot of young women strutting their stuff – but not with as much fun as this gal.

Memory is always used in service to the present. remembered, I think correctly, from an On The Media broadcast, is my favorite quote right now. I read an article a couple of weeks ago that was about a poll claiming that everybody thinks the past was better, even something like 59% of African-Americans. I just find that so hard to believe. Sure, isolated things? items? culture-ets were better, although I can’t think of anything right now. OK, traffic, for sure, and fairer wealth distribution – for white men, at least, in the 50s and 60s – that’s a big one.

But almost everything is better now, the level of consciousness in the world, I know that my lens is through the Bay Area, but everywhere really. We are more tolerant. Cars are infinitely better now, there really aren’t any shitty cars anymore. Television, and TVs are way better. War is even better, as rotten, wasteful, and pointless as it is. Nobody is throwing nukes around or sending millions of young men into the meat grinder of battle. Now is the sweet spot on the time continuum.

I contributed fifteen bucks to the Bernie Campaign yesterday, about fifteen seconds later, I got two emails. One, from the Bernie Campaign, said Thank you for the contribution and the other one was from Paypal saying they deducted fifteen bucks from my account and gave it to Bernie. No human was involved. $15 disappeared out of my account and appeared in the Bernie Campaign fund. Nothing really moved except electrons and each one of them didn’t move very far. That’s astounding.

Lewis Hamilton won the Grand Prix of Monaco over the weekend, the Warriors are going to The NBA Finals, and I am thrilled. I also can’t help but be reminded about one of the reasons I was told was responsible for the Fall of Rome, The people were distracted from the failing government by the Games.