so, today this great lumbering brute of a country moved another increment forward; today, in our convoluted meandering fashion we managed to put the needs of others above our own selfishness. There will be screams of anguish & the gnashing of teeth & there will still be setbacks to come, but those screamers & gnashers will become more & more irrelevant as they always do. It is an ongoing mystery to me that they do not recognise themselves, that they do not look at the old films of klansmen & segregationists, of the schemers & haters, the small minded bigots who love their little power & can only hold onto it by denying someone some small something, that they do not see themselves in these images & know that they are on the wrong side.