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the sea always seems to win

Does it matter that the last few years of tax cuts is not being repayed by growth in GDP, but bought by the Britain, China and Canada.

Funny and sad, Oops, Mom Googled Me

So I figured I was safe writing a little 900-word satire for the LA Weekly. I mean, who of my parents’ generation and political bent reads the Weekly? The bulk of my mother’s e-mails are forwards on moms or kids or dogs or jokes or Erma Bombeck’s purple hat musings. I never dreamed she would venture to Google and happen upon the piece in which I liberally trash Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, box wine and the holidays. Now my mother is no longer speaking to me.

My last e-mail from her was something like this: “I googled you and found ‘How to Survive the Holidays With Your Republican Parents.’ Why didn’t you share that one?” Why indeed?

In my guilt, I’ve sent them summer reading and care packages. But they are silent. They are hurt.

At the end of the classic sci-fi movie Blade Runner it said that the movie was based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Different dreams for different folks I guess. I don’t dream of the good old days of privacy, but I do have wistful thoughts about those days not long ago where we had reasonable expectations of privacy, of legal save guards that would keep zealous members of our government from abusing surveillance laws. Huge Victory - EFF Defeats Government’s, AT&T’s Motions to Dismiss in NSA Spying Case