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Trompudo Napkin Art – 3
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] This is our third post in our Trompudo Napkin Art series. Past posts can be found HERE and HERE Trompudo has girl trouble. Trompudo told Iran it risked consequences "the like...
The Art of the Lie
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. Joseph Goebbels It’s called the “illusion of truth” and it is a powerful tool for authoritarian leaders, advertisers, and all types of...
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Part II – for Anthony Bourdain
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Lesley Stahl: Have you seen the really bad schools? Maybe try to figure out what they're doing? Betsy DeVos: I have not-- I have not-- I have not intentionally visited schools that are underperforming.Lesley Stahl:...
Trompudo Napkin Art – 2
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] This is our second post in our Trompudo Napkin Art series ... I suppose insulting the Queen made you feel like a man. Wearing a crown requires sacrifices beyond your ability Sir Donald. (I'm not...
Trompudo Napkin Art – 1
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Why do I call our President Trompudo? Trompudo is a Spanish slang word implying a man with thick lips, blubber lips, grouchy, snobbish, piggish, a man who lies or tells tall tales (think Pinocchio),...
Road Tripping To World Peace: Interlude II — Alexander von Humboldt
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Traveler, your footprints by Antonio Machado Translators Mary G. Berg and Dennis Maloney Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there is no road; you make your own...
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Interlude I
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Railway Travel. A journey in a railway train makes me sentimental. If I enter the compartment a robust-minded, cheerful youth, fresh and whistling from a walk by the sea, yet, as soon as I am settled down in one...
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Part I—for Anthony Bourdain
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11GYvfYjyV0 Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know...
Political Antinomians
Snopes.com [Click on BLUE links for articles, sources, and more information] “There is only one heresy and that is Antinomianism.” John “Rabbi” Duncan In Christian theology, an antinomian is a person who believes the moral law is of no use or...
Coincidence Or Business As Usual
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] They’re back in the news again. All three. At the same time. Oliver North soon “to be the NRA’s new president”, Iran, Donald Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Abide by Nuclear Agreement, and Daniel...
The Eyes Have It
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] At the library, Sandman eased himself into a chair, booted up one of the computers and showed him how to access the files of individuals the Securities and Exchange Commission kept on its website as...
The Tragedy of Maxim Gorky: What It Means For Us Today
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36 "The aim of literature is to help man to understand himself, to strengthen the trust in...