First Blog

Lessons learned...  Just perhaps the entire country is possessed by winning at any cost. It is not unlike sports but in slow-motion. The loser, as in sports, asks for a recount (i.e. replay) or to extend the clock.  The winner maintains steadfast in victory, claiming it was a good game, fairly played. Both sports and politics cite racism, phobias and maladies of all sorts; both demand immense sums expended. When winning is the exclusive goal, the sport is gone and all fans lose. Intensity escalates. The owners in both venues are all billionaires.

Between Clinton, de Blasio, and Trump, we have a new meaning for what happens on the Tweets of New York. :) My goodness, twitter-izing seems to be a new form of open warfare.   Have you been twitter-ized yet?  _________________ There are approximately 4.5 characters/word in the English language.   So how many Tweets would it take to broadcast some of our greatest literature and other documents? Note a Tweet is 140 characters, max.   Here’s a brief list. Spaces are not counted. Author Title Words Characters Number of Tweets US Congress ObamaCare (ACA) 11,588,500 52,148,250 372,488 King James Version Bible 783,137 3,524,117 25,172 Leo Tolstoy War and Peace 587,000 2,641,500 18,868 Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind 418,053 1,881,239 13,437 J.K. Rowling Harry Potter Goblet of Fire 190,637 857,867 6,128 Muhammad Qur'an 77,44

"The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful." --- Henri Poincaré "A goal without a plan is just a wish."   --- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The things that we love tell us what we are." --- St. Thomas Aquinas  " Experts often possess more data than judgment."   --- from the Internet “Wisdom begins with knowledge about knowledge.”   --- Anon. “The newest (and oldest) form of political thug promises bounty to the public while stealing from the cash register.” – Anon. "If you believe in sanctuary cities, you have a religion where you get to feel good about yourself, you don’t actually have to do anything, and others pay for your faith. " - Anon.  (Convenient!   The take-away here is that we mustn’t call the intellectual left stupid anymore.   They did dream this one up!)