China spying...

Experts! Don't know why the Chinese military is  hacking US government and private companies. Oh, come on! This is a basic communist activity. They hack and spy on their own. Why spare the US?

Papa

Non habemus papa. What an unbelievable moment. A pope saying - I cannot continue. (need a break? have enough? not me?) Know too little about Catholicism.  But it is a moment underlying deep cultural decay - most cardinals did not understand the resignation announced in Latin. Nobody understands when I say Hic Rhodus, hic salta.
It is not just the loss of the Latin. But Latin has been taught using classic texts that will probably disappear from the horizon or from the basic cultural luggage...

Paintbush

Probably everything - funny, hateful or servile - has been said on the paintings of the most recent president Bush. Color, composition, subject. Water boarding, cleaning water, floating - you name it. Made me feel sorry for him - having to paint.