"Dogmatic jargon learnt by heart..."

                                     grasshopper eating my guitar

so I didn't march anywhere lately
now that I think about it
I have never marched at any time
I have however picked up a lot of garbage
perhaps folks could pick up garbage
while they march
I sort of believe that the climate marchers
will end up like the
occupy wall street movement
no one will  come up with a competitive
idea...but if they were picking up garbage
they might get some good ideas
and even if they don't get any good ideas
some of the garbage would get picked up

so on the positive side I read this in a magazine recently
"...Rising temperatures and improving technologies
mean longer growing seasons, higher crop yield and
wider swaths of arable land in much of Russia. Everyone
is moving north..." I think this was from an "Economist" mag.

this is from a 2014 Science magazine about the history of
humans as predators.
"...persistent hominin carnivory...evidence at Kanjera South in
West Kenya, on the shores of lake Victoria which dating from
about 2 million years ago...eating of game animals..."led to brain
growth and invention of technology..."

so this would indicate that the invention of the device on which you
are reading this was a direct result of hominins eating meat...not grasshoppers
of course some of the bad soft wear may have been invented by grasshopper
eaters....

"Dogmatic jargon learnt by heart,
Trite sentences, hard terms of art,
To vulgar ears seemed so profound,
They fancied learning in the sound."
                              John Gay

Simplicissimus

"The public demands certainties..."

             Audubons  or Crested Cara Cara or Mexican Eagle on beach Texas coast

these are some of the smartest birds I had the opportunity to care for in a zoo
flight cage. They used to be listed in the falcon family due to their wing molt
pattern. But they may have been re-designated with the more advanced
DNA studies now being used. I have heard that the storks are considered to
be more closely related to the vultures than the cranes so the science will
continue to change taxonomy.

"The public demands certainties...but there are no certainties." H.L. Mencken

Archytas of Tarentum

"Our repentance is not so much for the ill we have done..."

                                                macfaddin beach this morning, texas coast

nice free camping beach near Sabine Pass, Texas,  at the end of the road
way too much trash...bring a bag and pick up some trash
there are 3 large dumpster so there is no excuse for any trash
but insofar as humans are flawed creatures we will always have
to fix what we break...until there is no more fixing it...Oh well.

"Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill
we have done as fear of the ill that may happen
to us in consequence."  Francois La Rochefoucauld

"I was already refusing to have taste..."

                             last week the surgeon general of the USA made a statement
                             about the use of pot and the possible hazards

i thought this was an informative article about pot
not too much for it and not too much against it
but with some well researched advice

there is an author named Charles Baudelaire who was reputed
to be a rather dissolute fellow but who according to his
essays entitled "Artificial Paradise" was against the use of
Hash which I assumed would include all cannabis
This fellow said that his reason for not using hash was that
it deprived him of the one thing which he was not willing
to relinquish...which was his will power...I would have to concur
with this appraisal of the use of pot...at least for me...

"I was already refusing to have taste. I forbade myself to
have it. I know that the cultivation of it would not have
refined me but softened me."  Jean Genet

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