Nature Is Cold, Wet, Hard And Unforgiving.

Trump's Rise Is Troubling Not Just On An American Level But On An International Level.

I Know, Too, That Millions And Millions Of People Voted For Trump Not Because They Are Cartoon Racists, But Because They Did Not Like Hillary Clinton For A Variety Of Reasons, Because They Had Real Economic And Social Grievances.

I Use Social Media Every Day. I Don't Have A Twitter Account, But Not Because I'm A Dinosaur About It. I Have Enough Of A Platform Here. People In My Position Who Do It Tend To Use It In A Promotional Way Or In A Hamstrung Way. I Look At Twitter All The Time As A News Tool Or For Cultural Conversation. I've Used It In My Reporting. It's Very Useful.

Donald Trump Seems To Think It Is Within His Rights To Trample The First Amendment, To Disdain The Press, To Punish Protesters Or Flag-burners, To Ban Ethnic Categories Of Immigrants, And So On.

I Would Like To See Russia Not Invade Ukraine Or Put Pressure On And Threaten Baltic States. But We Live In The Real And Existing World.