Wokeness  is a wonderful thing.  I heartilyrecommend it.

 I miss the intellectual mind games I could sometimes play with the learned professors especially the ones who took themslvsew too seriously like philosophers and physicists. We had this intro to philosophy textbook in 1978 back when philosophers would need at requiring student s to read anything but original sources.At UA this hotshot young philosopher had just finished laughing me out of his office when I said, "But remember Professor Tanner, Whitehead said that philosophy is nothing but a series of footnotes to Plato. You guys haven't mr much progress in 2,000 yrs, have you"

"Touches, Mr. Hudson!" So we partied friends.

 I am emerging from a terrible week of gout in my tender right foot. You masochists would love gout The pain would exhilarate you. But not for me! I have better things to do than writhe in pain.

 

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Is it just me (which occurs frequently for me) is nostalgia old hat now? Are we so caught caught up in the fractious present to care about remembering the past which is always better in retrospect?

Are old times now forgotten? Does anybody old enough to remember still wonder where Joe DiMaggio has gone to? Since nobody reads anymore does anymore remember Hemingway's old man at the sea remembering the Great Dimaggio?

Does anybody pay attention anymore to the pseudo-artsy stuff in the lobby of Cracker Barre;/

Nostalgia for baseball back when it was not considered boring with today's 3-second attention spans? Skilled boxing with today's caged brawling?

April,  come she will,  but May, she will stay.

What If

 What if the kindness of strangers is not forthcoming.

 Still, it's important not to overrate what Carlson's leaving means for Fox News. Fundamentally, nothing has really changed for the network. As we learned from the Dominion lawsuit, Fox's profitability depends on pandering to a MAGA audience that's drunk on the increasingly baroque conspiracy theories they pick up on social media. Carlson is an especially talented purveyor of disinformation, but his commitment to unadulterated nonsense is the norm on the network. With or without Carlson, Fox News will remain a fact-averse propaganda network for the far-right.

-Salon.com