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I’m driving in big city morning rush hour traffic, on I-64 attempting to get the 25 miles or so to downtown St. Louis. It dawns on me suddenly that I am in a K-Mart world. Every few miles are so there is Blue-Light Special due to drivers playing bumper cars.
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I’m not the only to notice this, but now days, normal sized people look skinny!
“Yet the person tens of millions of viewers saw in this fall’s debates was hugely impressive all the same: self-possessed, almost preternaturally calm under pressure, deeply prepared, clearly in command of policy issues.”
While reading an opinion piece by Paul Krugman in the New York Times – Why Hillary Wins
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If somehow I were magically to become God, the first thing I would do is to get rid of all religions.
Here are three quotes from Thomas Jefferson that are much needed in today’s noxious political climate.
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, April 22, 18001
“When I hear another express an opinion, which is not mine, I say to myself, He has a right to his opinion, as I to mine; why should I question it. His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote to bring all men by force of argument, to one opinion? If a fact be misstated, it is probable he is gratified by a belief of it, and I have no right to deprive him of the gratification. If he wants information he will ask it, and then I will give it in measured terms; but if he still believes his own story, and shows a desire to dispute the fact with me, I hear him and say nothing. It is his affair, not mine, if he prefers error. ”
further on in that same letter:
“. . . Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially on politics. In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. . . . Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal. You will be more exposed than others to have these animals shaking their horns at you, because of the relation in which you stand with me.”
– Thomas Jefferson to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph Washington, Nov. 24th, 1808
I work in the Metropolitan Building in downtown St. Louis. The Metropolitan is the tallest building in St. Louis and the second tallest in Missouri. It is 42 stories tall in the tower section of the building. It is listed as 593 feet. The next tallest building in St. Louis is the AT&T Center at 588 feet. For comparison the St. Louis Arch is 630 feet. I once rappelled from 150 meters (492 feet) which is a pretty good drop. I do not work at such lofty heights, but I am on the 7th floor of the non-tower portion of the structure. My cube is right next to the outside walls and thus the large glass windows of the skyscraper.
Once year they clean all the windows on the outside. For part of the building they use the stereotypical platform hung from two points. On my portion of the building the window washers strap on what looks like a Continue reading “Me Too”
Quick quiz:
Question 1: Name the most critically acclaimed book written by George Eliot?
Question 2: What is George Eliot’s real name? Continue reading “Silas Marner by George Eliot”
I will have to admit that more than once I have threaten to move to Canada if Trump were to be elected. Alternatively, I have considered taking my social security and pension checks and moving somewhere in Latin America. What A strange, strange pass we have come to in this country… A Canadian friend sent this to me. Do you think she is trying to tell me something? Instead of Yankee Go Home, is it Yankee Do Not Come?
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I saw a yard sign that read, “To stop violence, try prayer.” I thought to myself if pray worked (or worked like that) this world would have been an utopia centuries ago.
I had just got done golfing Friday and went into the club house to get my post round 
Budweiser. On the TV, the news was blowing up with latest Donald Trump atrocity. Which one? They one where he got caught on tape bragging about assaulting women sexually.
The gentleman behind the counter was a fellow my age. We have had several nice conversations together. They are however, generally of the innocuous nature of small talk involving cars, golf or the Cardinals.
After watching the TV for a couple minutes I made the comment, Continue reading “I Had to Walk Away”