Month: June 2019

ONLY IN AMERICA

“What this country needs is a really good 5 cent cigar.” (- Thomas Marshall 1920)  Times were simpler then, or maybe Cigars were a lot better in the old days, if that is all it took to take care of things. […]

PAST and FUTURE

Madness at Play   WORDS, WORDS & MORE WORDS & COMBINATIONS OF THEM ANTHROPOCENE ERA:  This is the period of time during which human activities have had an impact on the earth…creating a geological change. – aka Today, the world […]

IT IS OK TO BABBLE, IF YOU ARE A BROOK

A moment (above) you might have missed this week.   VOCABULARY AND PHRASE UPDATES “LIES, DAMNED LIES and STATISTICS” (-B.Disraeli [1804-1881] saying there are three kinds of lies): This  observation regarding lies can be contemporized to:  DATA, DAMNED DATA and MEGADATA, […]

WORK WILL SET YOU FREE

The Lily Doth Not Toil.  Why Do You? Welcome to the NOTES FROM THE ROOM OF WONDER, Today, I am in the mood to confess my most grievous failing:  I disapprove of work.  (You forgive me, I’ll forgive you for […]

WONDER CAN BE PUZZLEMENT

Quick! Take this path! Welcome,Traveller, IT IS VOCABULARY TIME AGAIN: PLENUM:  The opposite of: Vacuum. I have difficulty imagining such a thing.  I saw this word in an article about Black Holes.  Apparently, you might find a plenum in the […]