Ramblings

Can it really be almost two weeks since my last post???? But, I see, I am writing to myself--zero comments. It's like when I was working. I'm almost ashamed of it, but often I deliberately tried to insult people, to question their motives, etc. just to try to get them to say something, even "Shut up, Ron!" But, nope, rarely, very, very rarely, over 33 years did anyone speak up and, when he/she did, more often than not spoke from a position of ignorance.

Is global warming behind our numerous and thunderous storms of late spring and early summer? If so, how does that mesh with the 25,000 physicists who recently joined the skeptics that global warming is caused by man-made activities? I wonder what the hairy mammoths and wooly mastodons called the end of the Ice Ages?

What constitutes art, as opposed to crafts? For instance, the Ann Arbor Art Fair has both. Which is which? Some, oil or pastel paintings to name one item, are obvious. What about painting on rocks? If it hangs inside, on a wall, is it art? If it hangs outside, in the garden, is it a craft? Beats me.... What was it Supreme Potter Stewart said about pornography? "I can't define it. But I know it when I see it."

Kenneth Davis of the Don't Know Much about... books has a pretty good new one, Hidden American History. Some is new, but not much. But it's entertaining and he offers some good perspectives. It's worth reading. It ends at the Constitutional Convention/Ratification, so my guess is there's a sequel or two or three in the making.