Hey Buddy – Well, as you know, the key for me once was what happens when somebody needs to take a piss and line won’t stop. Course it got to be even worse when you couldn’t even complain to yourself cos you were in a Workers’ state! Doubt I’ll convince you, but been pretty conscious re Red Menace (w/o negating menace of McCarthyism) since I was a boy. Liberal Family Values.

But – truth to tell – Doubt I’m approaching the Storm right. Probably should acknowledge Marx hasn’t done anything useful for my own head for decades…Probably makes more sense to leave apologies for Marx to smarties like Hitchens. There are (morally) better ways to go. As per Obama…

Though it won’t be easy even if my guy makes it. Just found out Chuck Schumer’s 10 biggest contributors were banks – Don’t mean to get all materialistic – but if he’s an ally won’t be easy sledding if O tries to reform/re-regulate our financial systems and not simply rely on bailing out haves and have-mores..