"Consider the wheelbarrow..."

                                              

"The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, With Observation of Their Habit"         Charles Darwin (1881)

read a very good article in "Natural History" magazine collection by Stephen J. Gould,                             who was one of the best interpreters of science in the world...the article was about how a thinking person can figure out what happened in the past by making careful observations of the present...and so we have now a future which seems uncertain but perhaps fraught with turmoil and discomfort...to say the least... 

 I would like to recommend a movie...I watched "Deathproof" last night...Directed by Quentin Tarantino and with Kurt Russell and several nubile young females...this movie was produced by Bob and Harvey Weinstein...so one must wonder whether they hustled the women onto the "casting couch" etc...as much as i like Kurt Russell i cannot recommend this movie as it has too much gratuitous violence and way too much inane girl talk...and car porn...if you like car chases...however, I would like to recommend another Kurt Russell film which is one of my favorite of all time..."Captain Ron" which has a message. also I would like to recommend a music DVD song which is "Sweet Operator" which is on the "Sade Lovers Live" DVD...excellent singing and world class musicianship....

i see where "Noose Boy" is back in the news and his fate looks kind of grim..."Here's a good rule of thumb;/ Too clever is dumb. Ogden Nash

"Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but it's humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have."    Hal Borland....i like this quote as i took a Ph.D in wheelbarrow and shovel...