My kind of weather today – currently 75, high of 79. Got all my windows open, listening the various birds chirping, some minor road traffic from the county road 1/2 mile away. And, then, there are my backyard neighbors, with their air conditioner running full tilt. Weird thing is, it looks as though their back […]
Archives for June 2016
Mr. Trump and his Tweets following “Orlando”
Presidential Candidate Donald Trump and his Twitter tweets (please see the above photo), in chronological order, since Mr. Trump became aware of the mass killings in Orlando. I also looked at his official campaign website – no official statement from him (other than the tweets in the attached photo). As opposed to the following from […]
An article from “The New Yorker”
An editorial from the “New Yorker” magazine’s website, dated today: In the rhetoric of Donald Trump, mendacity and cynicism compete for equal time. It is hard to say which prevailed today as the Republican Party standard-bearer, a man who pretends to the most powerful political office in the land, tweeted this at his followers: “Appreciate […]
Orlando tragedy
My thoughts, prayers and tears are with the people in Orlando. Why do so many people have such hatred in their hearts and heads?
Bobby Fischer Movie
Watched a pretty good biographical movie tonight: “Pawn Sacrifice”, staring Tobey Maguire as a young Bobby Fischer (chess champion in the ’60s and ’70s). Tobey does a great job at portraying Mr. Fischer. The movie starts with us seeing him as a 6 yr old chess prodigy, thru his teenage and young adult years, and […]
