This isn’t a substack or a journal or a daily paper, because I only write when I see something you should know about, and only if I have time.  Forgive me, there are so many things like that – things that only an unimportant person like me would bother with, but are so indicative of an entire society.  But I’ve got to rush off to the hospital now because Ezi has an appointment to have a cyst on his back removed.  It is a cyst that appears every time we fly and causes him great pain, and me a lot of disgust because it has to be drained every day, and I’m going to applaud when the doctors leave the operating room.