Updated

Esoterica Obscura.blogspot.etc is now Reese Zollinger.blogspot.you've got it. I've uploaded the previous blog to this one and hopefully there was no one left behind.

Clyburn gets it

Earlier today.

As he left the White House, House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina was asked about Republican complaints that Democrats aren't listening to what their GOP colleagues have to say. "We're responding to the American people," he said. "The American people didn't listen to them too well during the election."

Dr King's prescience

The BBC discovers a clip of Dr Martin Luther King speculating how long he thought it would take America to elect its first black president. He was a bit optimistic, but there is no doubt tomorrow would not be happening without his and many others fight for social and economic equality.

(Photo: Yoichi R. Okamoto, Wikimedia Commons)

Shifting Sands

This series of maps puts the present conflict in the Middle East in historical context.  The I/P issue won't be fully dealt with until we stop acting like children, like race and religion separate us.