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yeah I know you did not ask!
So I am walking out my building after a long, exhausting day of twiddling bits and bytes. There is a young lady from another office walking out in front of me. I say to myself, “There is something odd about that young woman?” Then it dawned on me what it was. She had a waist, a very petite waist. Definitely not something you see too much of these days.
We’re in historic St. Charles, MO. It is Christmas time and I am with a group that is caroling through the business district of this landmark town of Lewis and Clark fame. I’m doing everyone a favor by not singing, but I am taking pictures. There are many individuals dressed as various characters. There is a frontiersman, there is the town crier, there is a Santa Claus whose North Pole outfit is based on the American flag, and many more.
We encounter the most adorable young lady dressed as the Sugar Plum Fairy. She was so full of energy and quips that it was amazing. She saw me taking her picture, rotated 180 degrees and commanded me to take a picture of her other good side! So I did. She looked at me and remarked, “I really like your milk mustache, of course it is a chocolate milk mustache…” Well it is not totally white yet, but I am working on it.
“A man can smile and smile and be a villain. Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain.” ~~ from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” ~~ Albert Einstein
Twenty five years or so ago I made the “mistake” of rereading the whole Bible. When, as an adult, you read the Bible closely it does not stand up. So I started studying other religions which caused me to look at my own religion with the same critical eye. I detailed this in a previous blog article, Rev. Joe Stumbles. The long and the short of it, I lost one of my weak pillars, that of God. My religious faith evaporated. I became a born-again agnostic.
That still left a faith in Country. This had become weakened over Continue reading “WTF – Trump – May God have mercy on our souls”
yeah I know you did not ask!
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.
yeah I know you did not ask!
I’m not the only to notice this, but now days, normal sized people look skinny!
yeah I know you did not ask!
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”
