The snow is melting quickly and we have a couple of days in the 40s and a couple in the 50s on the forecast for this coming week.

I wonder about the details of these plans. Qatar and other gulf countries are notorious for the abuse of "guest workers." Thinking also about a report Mom read a couple of days ago about N. Korean workers in Russia whose earnings are (according to the report) remitted to N. Korea, not the worker or his family. Who or what gets the Salvadoran guest worker's money? Are we starting a new "slave trade?"

Sometimes swear words are the only appropriate expression of disgust which conveys the full feeling of utter, total, complete disgust I feel with #45 and his administration. Unfortunately, the old words simply are too banal and common place, and I am not creative enough to come up with new ones. So now our diplomats are to be shills for the armaments industry. Their corporate sales staff and lobbyists were doing well enough to ensure the U.S. was #1 in this category even if we aren't in maternal and infant health, in education, in medical outcomes vs costs, in infrastructure soundness, in (name your own category).

This is an interesting development. Maybe it will put a small spike into the pharma vultures.