Bi Polar People

"Dark matter  is a hypothetical form of  matter  that is thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter  in the universe, and about a quarter of its total energy density. The majority of  dark matter  is thought to be non-baryonic in nature, possibly being composed of some as-yet undiscovered subatomic particles." Source: nature.com   Wikipedia

The appearance of the judicial process for some but not all is the minor traffic violation or divorce court.  Others deal with the ultimate decision of one man on far more serious issues.  The Kavanaugh hearings are defining for all what type of behavior the person who delivers justice is responsible for.  The process of representation is not a crash course in getting your way, but knowing the ways of a system of rules and laws that govern our lives delivered by one man - a judge.     Source:  nytimes.com 

"The American Enterprise Institute is a public policy think tank dedicated to defending human dignity, expanding human potential, and building a freer and safer world. The work of our scholars and staff advances ideas rooted in our belief in democracy, free enterprise, American strength and global leadership, solidarity with those at the periphery of our society, and a pluralistic, entrepreneurial culture." Source: AEI.org

12 Strong Men

Where we belong

In its natural form, today a swamp marsh remains as a park Public access shows us how this area once was Homes on retention ponds from the reclaimed marsh 

"Perhaps most telling was the list of countries that Trump highlighted at the end of his speech as those embodying the “dreams” of the kind of nations our children will inherit. Trump praised Saudi Arabia, a brutally repressive dictatorship where women have few rights, and which is fighting a war in Yemen that is creating a humanitarian catastrophe. He praised Poland, a Nato ally where democratic institutions are under assault from its own government. And he praised Israel, a US ally that runs a military occupation of the Palestinian people in the West Bank. If these countries are Trump’s idea of the future we want to leave for our children, Trump’s vision of the world he wants to build is quite dark." theguardian.com   by Michael H Fuchs  Isolation in a world economy is counterproductive at the very least.  It removes the level playing field for less fortunate economies.  The richest of the US may influence policy in this country, but will ultimatel...

The Person Therein    You visit the person therein and say to him...   Don't I know you from some far away place and time?   Didn't you collaborate in this rhyme? I don't think so friend, I have better things to do,           Like muse of the misery of man and his zoo. We barely speak much, nor chat or chatter,           I often wonder what's the matter. Strangers true we are! Why have you bothered to travel so far?     I must confess I'm lost without you,      and many things have cost me dearly.       For lack of talk with you is my most grievous sin,       and I repent from afar and from within. Do not snatch at me with remorse,           those lost days of foolishness are of course.            I've been here all along,    ...

Source  theatlantic.com

Don't you look funny A photographer will go to any lengths to get a picture

Overall most call centers have empathetic and helpful people who know their product.  I have stumbled onto a machine driven support line that was just infuriating.  Computers (phones) aren't really smart.  They only provide an environment to think with.  Call it a cognitive crutch. 

I am an atom  Please leave me alone

W ill North Korea continue threats

This link is presented because I know from personal experience how few women are involved in technical fields  It doesn't need to be this way  Often technicians become proficient almost on their own as they pursue an interest or work with a team to develop a product  More than once my own job in the field of microwave was almost put in jeopardy had I failed to produce positive results for theories that proved current calibrating practices for the new digital system analyzers inaccurate  Women were often used as supervisors who had skills   "Steitz, who has advocated for greater gender diversity in science and co-authored a 2005 National Academy of Sciences report on bias and other barriers to women in “STEM” (science, technology, engineering and Mathematics ), spoke with Scientific American about her career, the #MeToo movement and working with James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA." Source scientificamerican.com Joan ...

roughly translated, means "The ignorant peasants will buy it. A one party system and the vanquishing of a democracy defines the times  How America is reliving Poland's political past - if we let it Source  theatlantic.com   Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series that attempts to answer the question: Is democracy dying? 

What scifi inclined person doesn't like some aspect of this three season (depending on streaming service and country) battle between Mars and Earth    Go behind the scenes to experience the complexity of recreating a future not to far from our own   Only just a little more far out   ouch    Source  SciFi  Netflix and maybe in the not to distant future a forth from Amazon Clip courtesy of Youtube 

what do I know source  me  may 20 2015

Barack Obama has delivered a sharp rebuke of Donald Trump’s America, attacking his successor by name for the first time in impassioned remarks that denounced “the politics of fear and resentment”. source  theguardian .com

What I call my kids, grand kids and anyone else who can't be bothered with real people. 

At The Helm: Harold Mabern, Stalwart Accompanist, At 82 Cleo Brown On Piano Jazz  Eliane Elias On Piano Jazz Nicholas Payton On Piano Jazz and more at above link source  npr.org   Marian Mcpartlands's Piano Jazz

Will color your world but not change your shape

source   theguardian .com

What level of abstraction are you comfortable with   How far from reality are you willing to let yourself go in search of something that is defining   even for a moment  

Returning the right to rule and make rules to all the people all the time, something missing when wealth means absolute power.  Will Waren's ideas influence action that the total population can live with, meaning some share so more can care if it is worth working. " I worry both for capitalism and for democracy. People across this country once believed that folks who work hard and play by the rules have a chance to be able to build real security and that their kids will do better than they did. Today, that dream runs into a very hard reality that this is now a world that works better and better for a smaller and smaller number of people. That's a problem for capitalism and for democracy at the same time." Source  Raedle / Getty / Boule / ImageFlow / Shutterstock / The Atlantic

Claude Shannon: How a Genius Solves Problems If you are bipolar life is an ongoing problem...  much of the above link will help those with emotional challenges as well as the ability to cope with tasks we create for ourselves source  medium.com

Blooms appear in the most desolate of environments  Hope flourishes when most unexpected

The result of giving your grand daughter a cat without her mother's permission.  We have had  this cat for about twelve years  Her name is  Cat

Down a hollow to a cavern Where the sun has never shone, Like a door that keeps revolving In a half forgotten dream, Or the ripples from a pebble Someone tosses in a stream Like a clock whose hands are sweeping .... Keys that jingle in your pocket Words that jangle in your head Why did summer go so quickly ? Was it something that you said ? Lovers walk along a shore And leave their footprints in the sand Is the sound of distant drumming Just the fingers of your hand ? Pictures hanging in a hallway And the fragment of this song Half remembered names and faces But to whom do they belong ? He: when you knew That it was over You were suddenly aware That the autumn leaves were turning To the color Of her hair ! She: when you knew That it was over In the autumn of goodbyes For a moment You could not recall the color Of his eyes ! Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles That you find In ...

Can an authoritarian president determine the outcome of the democratic country who elected him?   " Pardons can protect the president’s associates from prison. But they can’t protect the president issuing the pardon—if anything, they would worsen his exposure and enhance the impression of guilt." Source      David Frum is a senior editor at The Atlantic . In 2001–02, he was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush.

Host countries control the influx of information .  This is an established rule that protects foreign governments from external political and social decent.    source theguardian.com/world

Western Hemisphere’s tallest building Photo source  Sergey Ginzberg

Or the embodiment of evil   Our beliefs dictate what we know to be truth  even when truth takes the form of conflicting faces  Fee will remains our bond  Source  picture from a previous entry -  all photos are mine unless otherwise stated

The distance between objects in space is measured in light years    One light year is equal to six trillion miles   Moving from one planet to the next may be almost impossible with conventional propulsion  The Planets that we can see will possibly have had life that became extinct before earth was able to sustain life  We are alone in our universe  separated by time from any living organism  which is probably why there has been life at all at any time   Take care of the planet we live on

A PBS Frontline Special While governments posture with hopes of peace and trade while offering sanctions and other threats the people live on and they live well despite the decisions that will ultimately define their lives   Watch this Public Broadcast of life in Iran 

Modern television is so clear it's hard to tell it from real life. Of course actors are paid to look like the quintessential photo.

Trump will not tolerate criticism of any kind from anyone in government.  He moves against the tide of discontent over bad judgment, stupid ideas, and ill formed rhetoric - "We will get rid of the redundancy and duplication that wastes your time and your money." — President Donald J. Trump More from  www.nytimes.com/newsletters  opinion today Source  thehill.com    By Jordan Fabian and Morgan Chalfant - 08/15/18 04:44 PM EDT  

     For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Social media is no more perfect and noble than the society that uses it.  Why delete your social media account if it pleases you to tell the world about your new birth or latest family upheaval.  Anyway, besides a hand full of people, who cares, and who reads it?  Social media is the release you get from dumping on family and friends and occasionally political rivals.  I know, long before social media as such I wrote so many emails to family that one sibling encouraged me to start a blog.  That was years ago and some of this stuff isn't to bad, albeit opinionated under the guise of art and other reasonable excuses to be heard.  Social media shapes society.  An example would be the human drones I saw in a local park.  All of them heads down staring into their phones while ignoring the magnificence of nature.  Aldous Huxley would be proud to see his somewhat zombi...

in yourself While the name Kafka may turn some people off to his philosophy, he wrote about the condition of existence that makes sense to those who have pondered similar questions   And who hasn't 

Is my wife

Today  at least in the US   the cars are either Black or White   with the rest in shades between  Do we live in such a world where personal preferences are so limited   or don't we see beyond the ability to imagine color s vibrancy and fancy The above photo shows that the little things in life still have color   When there is a colorful personality do we shrink away  Yes  Donald your favor for red is a little alarming to most US citizens  Here a little black and white would be useful

Adele Konecki Marilyn Monroe Barbara Stanwyck click to hi-light answer>  Answer Marilyn Monroe

Saint Michael's Castle Vasily Dobroskok Move around  There is plenty to see in St. Petersburg  Russia

Attitude is everything

Everything you see on the internet is tied to someone's vested interest  Nothing is free  even if you didn't pay for it  or did you  Read more from Mozilla Hacks   Author’s Note: This post imagines a dystopian future for web video, if we continue to rely on patented codecs to transmit media files. What if one company had a perpetual monopoly on those patents? How could it limit our access to media and culture? The premise of this cautionary tale is grounded in fact. However, the future scenario is fiction, and the entities and events portrayed are not intended to represent real people, companies, or events. Source   By Judy DeMocker Posted on August 9, 2018 in av1, Featured Article, and Video

New lakes from old glaciers.  A warming trend?

The economy grows despite vanishing wages amid growing corporate dominance. Growth is good  passing it on to the those responsible for growth is obviously not a current trend. Who sits on the castle thrown and will allow its treasure to spill into the streets  Nay  none today Source  Commentary blogger  linked article   By   David Leonhardt    nytimes.com

draw your own conlusions               Unemployment climbed after the 2008 stock market crash   The economy lost 17,000 jobs, the first time since 2004