Cold this morning but it looks like we will have sun. The temperature should get into the mid 20s. Not bad for this time of the year. Can you believe January is half over? Damn!!

"Better life," "better world"??? Thanks, but no thanks. How many things have been sold us on this "pie in the sky" notion and then utterly failed to deliver what was promised? Another thought surfaced while we talked around this issue: how much of these shows are geared more toward finding investing in the companies developing what are obviously prototypes? That bigger fish might be the real target.

Josh Marshall at TPM has a good take on how the reputation of the word "shithole" has been damaged by #45's use of it.