Pic of the day:  La Grenouillere, by Claude Monet __________________________ Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours? [...]

Pic of the day:  Saint Jerome by Leonardo Da Vinci ____________________________ Strange—is it not?—that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ____________________________ Sudan dropped bombs on South Sudanese [...]

Oil is at the highest prices they have been at in a long time.  Brent crude is up over $121 a barrel.  Why?  Iran.  They have cut oil supplies, having decided to cut off both French and British companies.  They also happen to be in the middle of a major dispute with Israel.  And Iran [...]

The Bad news is that Pete Hoekstra is running for Senate.  The Good News?  Pete Hoekstra is running for Senate. The Hoax is a complete nut.  Has been for years.  Doesn’t mean he won’t get votes.  There are enough lunatics in America to make anyone who rants like a schizoid ass clown at least 40% [...]

I was trolling the web, looking for news of some import to write about. found plenty of it. Saw the headlines about Benjamin Netanyahu saying in a speech before congress that going back to the indefensible pre-1967 borders was  unacceptable.  My initial thought about this was something along these lines: “I wonder what Moshe Dayan thought [...]