Ah, it's Saturday, and I found a draft of a posting I never sent weeks ago.  I had already begun clearing out my desktop.   To the left, Sacha Baron Cohen, who was just nominated for the Oscar as Best Supporting Actor, playing Abbie Hoffman from  The Trial of the Chicago Seven , which got 90/91 ratings from Rotten Tomatoes.  I thought after his performance, he showed political potential, like Arnold Schwazernegger.  However, he and his family moved recently moved to Australia.  Maybe there, someday, he'll do something like that. Another from an actor who did get into politics. And about politics, what is legal or not is all semantics: Changing  the subject, this past year some of you were impressed by those drones, for they will someday soon replace fireworks, which are technically illegal from an environment viewpoint, and expensive.  You wonder if this will become another useful technology, or one which which  careens out of control . Animal videos are popular: Know anything

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