While trying to put this post together, some cat came into our offices and bothered us. I hear we are not alone with this problem. Due to the recent ‘Election’ – studies show – ‘Cat Ladies’, in great number, have been pressured into abandoning their cats and have returned to the kitchen and other places in the home. Who is going to take care of the cats? …And what about this one?
- I hear our Once and Future President has called what happened on ‘January 6th’ “A love fest.” Just imagine what would have happened if a violent mob had shown up instead.
- Various news services offer me the chance to take a quiz..so I can see how ‘Au Courant’ I am with things…In that spirit I offer a three (3) question quiz…if you get one (1) correct you are: Intelligent Enough. If you get two (2) you are probably a good conversationalist at dinner parties. If you get all three (3) correct you spend too much time trying to keep up. #1) Setoshi Nakamato is the name of: A) The new, spicey soy based sauce currently the rage in San Francisco. B) The name of the man suspected to have invented Bitcoin. C) The Japanese baseball player who injured his shoulder after signing a $500,000,000 contract to play ball for five (5) years. #2) “DUNKLEFLAUTE” is the new: A) Sausage shaped & crispy creamed Doughnut, which is all the rage at ‘Duncan’ – priced (30 cents) to attract more customers from STBX. B) A German word spreading across Europe – and coming soon to a town near you. Frequently, it is an energy related term meaning ‘Dark Doldrums” and is what happens when the sun goes behind the clouds and the wind stops and there is no energy provided by fossil fuel alternative measures. …It also can refer to the sadness over the recent U.S. elections. (i.e., “I can’t do anything today because I have Dunkleflaute over the electoral count.”) C) Is the name of a new Dance Craze, emanating from an AI game, which is causing late night traffic disturbances in several U.S. cities. #3) “Love Fest” A) A Bacchanalian Cavort, much adored by the Medici in the 14th & early 15th Centuries. B) “An expression, or exchange of goodwill, praise or affection” (-according to Miriam Webster, whoever she is) C) The name of the award winning movie at the Venice film Festival…loosely based on Donald Trump’s early sexual and criminal escapades…recently released on Netflix.
(All the above are correctly answered by the choice of letter B; but if you chose any of the others it does not necessarily mean you are stupid or gullible. If you want to know how to know more than you know – please send me your credit card numbers – and the three little numbers on the back – asap)
That’s all for now folks, due to the length of the quoted quotes below:
- “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” -Isaac Asimov
- “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution.” —- George Orwell, “1984”. (wherein it was also written: “…Ignorance is Strength.”)
Until next week …and a fond ‘Hello’ to Sonia, wherever you are.
