Grand Vision

To see underwater, you need  to spit on your goggles and rub. Starfish and corrals become clear.  What do you need to do to see above water?

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...