absent without leave ...

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Derailed a few days with other projects ...
... and there is the rub for us all:

How to give attention to larger problems in society while coping with the "daily bread" struggles we all (most of us) face.

Not all of us. There are a few exceptions ...

" Exxon Mobil Corp. invested only $10 million last year on direct research on alternative energy while reaping a record $36 billion in profits. Meanwhile, it handed its retiring chief executive officer a nearly half-billion-dollar parachute, according to the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.The New York Times reported last week that recently retired Exxon Mobil CEO Lee R. Raymond received a $400 million compensation package in his final year, factoring in his salary, stock options, pension and longer-term restricted stock grants."

No doubt he earned every penny.

New wikipedia pages today: Parchin, Abdel Qader Khan, Pierre Goldschmidt
Edited: IAEA adding Khan, Nuclear program of Iran linking Parchin

Curiously, at the end of the day, severe computer problems. Were I paranoid, I might think a connection to my activities ...