Happy Flippinosis, Fellow Coin Tossers*, You might have heard some stuff about the president lately. He’s been gumming up the news. But speaking of presidents, we’ve been sitting onsome good news. Sorry we skipped over it, after all you’ve been through. Anyway, the good news, speaking of skipping, is we have decided to skip over the
running-for-president headaches and proceed directly to the grand opening of our presidential library. In keeping with the tradition of presidential libraries, we won’t have any actual books. Maybe some nice illustrated pamphlets. Mainly, though, photographs and movie clips and plaques and goblets and etchings, with really great captures of us negotiating, like the time we told everyone dining at Salvatore’s Trattoria, "We know what spumoni is, and this is not spumoni!" When you’re the leader of the free
world, you might nudge them to serve actual spumoni. Our inaugural exhibit will feature ice. We do not need a reason for everything, in case you were wondering. But . . . at the same time, if you score some real spumoni, don’t let it thaw on the way home. Ice could help.
Junction Creek
Deep Cascade Creek
Animas River, Looking North
Animas River, Looking at Dusk
* Wikipedia Friday Favorite: Thanks to Tom Kelley of Morro Bay, we may now enjoy
Flipism, a streamlined methodology for avoiding the scourge of over-thinking both presidential libraries and life itself:
And just in time for Super Bowl Sunday (during which something happens between two teams while you're waiting for the next commercial break), Jonathan Doff of Oakland, California (right up the coast from Morro Bay) directs us to a video which proves amazing outcomes from the Flipism practice:
Fictionary Friday: Words You Need. Whether you know it or not.
Lowpocrisy(loh pock rah see) Noun: When the bar set by hypocrisy is way too high.
In a sentence: Man Usecrypt tried to select an example of lowpocrisy from this week's impeachment trial, but there were too many options so he gave up and flipped a coin.
Fizzdom Friday: from our collection of favorite quotes:
"Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, states, and societies, it’s the norm." — Friedrich Neitzche
Reader Replies From Last Week:
We’re gratified to have received thoughtful replies to our Founding Mothers piece posted last week.
Jeffrey Benson of Brookline, Massachusetts, shared his life-long appreciation for the Founding Moms at odds with their troubling acceptance of slavery, graphically portrayed in the recent "1619 Project" in the New York Times:
Jeffrey’s concerns raised the question, "What did the Founding Moms know about slavery, and when did they know it?" Hmmm. A Quickipedia search ensued, and the data implicates the Moms. They knew. Turns out that societies around the world have been
outlawing slavery since the Sixth Century BC:
And Henry Cohen of Dunwoody, Georgia, identified (1.) another inconsistency in the Founding Moms’ founding documents, namely the damn electoral "college"; and (2.) an amazing capture from the little known history of Venice, when it was an empire, and governed by a complex balance between centers of power which was perhaps betterconceived than our own which followed centuries later:
