“Love is what happens to a man and woman who don’t know each other.” — W. Somerset Maugham

“This is a free country, madam.  We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.” — Peter Ustinov, Romanoff and Juliet, 1956

“No matter.  The dead bird does not leave the nest.” — Winston Churchill (on being told that his fly [pants zipper] was undone)

“Are we having fun yet?” — Carol Burnett, The Four Seasons, 1981

Rainy days and Mondays…the weekend over, MI6 looking like a bunch of dallying dunces in a Bond film, a football team losing another close one…these are the men that try time’s souls.

I face another crossroads, more choices, less certainty, many goals to accomplish should I so choose.

In this big, big universe, a group of minorities banded together to form a rainbow coalition majority on a small portion of a medium planet.

Sixty-two million out of three hundred-plus million out of seven-plus billion.

My sister and her children celebrate victory — hello to liberal Christianity, legalised marijuana, gay marriage and abortion rights.

My mother, my sister in-law and her children see defeat — goodbye to conservative Christianity, the sanctity of heterosexual marriage and the right to life for all unborn children.

My wife and I wonder where this places us in the scheme of Internet of things.

At 11:12 on 11/12/12, this blog fades to silence — there is no longer any joy for the advance of technological achievements in the face of diverging social movements.