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The FBI on Wednesday released new footage of the suspect who placed pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters in DC on January 5. Two pipe bombs were planted at the RNC and DNC DC Headquarters and safely detonated by a bomb squad on January 6. The FBI on Wednesday released new footage of the pipe bomb suspect on a cell phone with timestamps…yet they still cannot identify the individual? The FBI is asking the public for help identifying the suspect.

Now that the national conventions are over which one fired up -- in a positive way -- the country? The Republican National Convention. The Democratic National Convention. That marginally strange Kumoricon Convention at Esther Short Park.

My apologies to Shakespeare, but the phrasing so clearly expresses the dilemma that I have faced since the mid-sixties, when my friends and I discussed our objections to boys too young to vote on matters of war, being drafted and sent to Vietnam. By the time voting rights for 18 year olds had been passed, I was so disillusioned with the government that I, personally, took the stance of refusing to vote. As a young child, living just twelve miles from where I currently reside, many of my earliest memories are of voting and party choices. A favorite family story...