I'm always fascinated by the disjunct between what's REALLY happening on the ground and the propaganda MACHINE that FEEDS America alarmist news about immigration.
The whole thing about Tool is that it kind of feeds on itself. If it's GOING, it's going. If it's at a grinding HALT, there's either the will to PICK it up again and get it going or not. We've been through serious stages of nothing... business problems or personal problems or WHATEVER.
I LOVE being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally FEEL that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an ENCOURAGING force for CREATIVITY, it feeds creativity - it did for me, CERTAINLY.
There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to SURVIVE as a species for EVER, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds US, which is EXACTLY what we are doing.