Bi Polar People

Photograph by Tom Brenner / Reuters (edited) Disillusionment for success has left countless dead or starving  Our brand of democracy has allowed this to happened and also permitted a mostly peaceful presidential replacement  No system of government is perfect  May the future benefit from knowing how the electorates' power and trust was placed in hands that misused it   Read The New Yorker article: The Trümperdämmerung Is a Fitting End to 2020   By Susan B. Glasser December 29, 2020

" There's a hidden wire stretched above American cities — and few people know what it's for." This Rabi is overseeing the repair of the eruv at an annual cost of $100,000.00 a year.  This piece of string over Manhattan allows Jews to freely move about on the sabbath . Source  businessinsider.com

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A turtle bonds near a pond   The cat sees finches fond   My daughter's dog naps so strong   Mr. Spider a face so long   Orange beak, grey eye streak on dollar strong   The Blenny in her salted bath ends the song  

  A compendium of technologies first products and the people who delivered them   Steve Jobs’ First Demo of the Mac for the Public, Unseen Since 1984 : An important piece of computing history gets preserved. (January 2014) 50 Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal : In April 1964, Dartmouth College democratized computing. (April 2014) How Gmail Happened : Google’s e-mail breakthrough, ten years later. (April 2014) My Kennedy Polaroids: Instant History : Two moments from JFK’s 1960 trip to Medford, Oregon, captured forever. (January 2013) Please Don’t Call it Trash-80 : The 35th anniversary of Radio Shack’s TRS-80. (August 2012) Newton Reconsidered : Apple’s first handheld computer reviewed, twenty years after its announcement. (June 2012) 25 Years of IBM’s OS/2 : It was supposed to become the dominant operating system, and didn’t. But it’s never gone away. (April 2012) Why History Needs Software Piracy : Benj Edwards on the legacy we risk losing. (

  As a student teacher, I met children who had very little.  Of course, there were those who had a sufficient life.  That made an impression on me and it prompted this poem.  Values are created in part by what we have and don't have. Santa Claus makes all children happy, the ones who have and those who have not - at least in this poem.  After two years of satisfactory coursework, the University of South Florida denied my diploma, this poem is not the only idea they disagreed with.  Education is a bureaucracy whose aim is to socialize your child.  As one teacher told me, "teaching is the tip of the iceberg."   SANTAHOOD IS COMING TO TOWN a strange and wondrous tale by charles mistretta 93'  Christmas ornament - JoAnn   ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY, I GRABBED MY BAG IN SUCH A FURY, WANTING TO PLEASE LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS. THOSE REINDEER GROANED AND MUSED WITH RANCOR, THEN NEVER WAS HEARD SUCH SNORTS OF BANTER, QUIVE

A meteor fell from the sky and was reduced in mass as it burned it's way through the earth's atmosphere The result was this three centimeter remnant of a large menacing rock  If you find this hard to believe then the other version of the story simply is that it went up in smoke and those that experienced the event were amazed beyond comprehension   See the disclaimer at the top of this blog   An aside  Have fun while ye may

Christopher Haven is serving a twenty-five year term for murder  A year after incarceration he was placed in solitary confinement  He discovered an interest in theoretical mathematics while secluded  After about nine years he published a mathematical study in the journal Research in Number Theory   This is his story      By Caroline Delbert May 18, 2020  popularmechanics.com    

RUDOLPH THE LEAKY LAWYER - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody  " A parody, also called a spoof, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on, or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or make fun of its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it" or some dishonest public official who falls prey to the demands of the demented — theme/content, author, style, etc. et al    Wikipedia

 The cure is not a panacea   It fights disease not infection   We still need awareness that what kills can continue, to whatever degree, even when contained with inoculations   Ed Yong who is a staff writer at The Atlantic describes the history of the virus and the reasons for the success and failure we have experienced since its genome was discovered in January of 2020 "Health-care workers became better at saving hospitalized patients more through improvements in basic medical care than through pharmaceutical panaceas—a predictable outcome, because antiviral drugs tend to offer only modest benefits." "A few large trials eventually confirmed that hydroxychloroquine does nothing for COVID‑19 patients, but not before hundreds of thousands of people were recruited into pointlessly small studies." "The tsunami of rushed but dubious work made life harder for actual experts, who struggled to sift the signal from the noise."

Title From the 60's commercia l     A punch is more than you think  When done right your hand is your weapon and you don't loose it when you use it   An interesting look at the physics and physiology of making a fist that won't break under pressure source  Popular Science   David Nield  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-throw-a-punch?utm_source=pocket-newtab  

 An art form  Choreographed body rhythm  Moves that move you  Not your daddy's two step  People coming together to perform for you with something you may not have ever seen  Commonly called BreakDance   

 They see...  A skill that is often taken for granted  Presentation of an impression is part of the sight process  Thus this picture   Mark 8:18 ‘Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear?’ And do you not remember?   The picture was shot next to an open window that showed painted wall art     Central Ave St. Petersburg FL

 No two of anything or anyone can occupy the same place at the same time.  Territory is always earned through force or desperation.  Eventually we gain what we seek and live with what we replace.

Qui tollis peccata Mundi, miserere nobis.  Who take away sins of the world, have mercy on us.  

The White House is Trump's safe house.  Without it he will loose more than a job, he will become the target of truths he can't disclaim, debt, a whole lot of debt.

"Fueled by the pandemic, uprisings in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan and a war in the Caucasus region are undermining the influence of the Russian leader." Putin's efforts to weaken the West has turned into a mirror of lost public confidence  All in the area  reason the Corona Virus is one of the causes of the destabilization  It is increasingly more difficult for autocrats to rule by division without becoming the target of lost popular confidence - the one man show of national dominance remains difficult to maintain with today's complex survival choices  Source  nytimes.com   By Anton Troianovski  Published Oct. 7, 2020 Updated Oct. 9, 2020