LA, like Walt Whitman (and I expect both you and I), is “large and contains multitudes.” We humans and our creations are complicated. We can contain many contradictory and diverse facets, which are sometimes only revealed with time and circumstance.

So sorry for your loss. Hope this video of a swallowtail butterfly visiting our patio will help lift your spirits.

What a coincidence. For some reason this morning (possibly reacting to the photo of the train carrying armored vehicles to D.C. from TX) I was thinking about Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the last parade he attended in 1981…

Clearly Mr. Yarvin, in his praise for airline pilots, has forgotten about Germanwings Flt. 9525.