"Love is often nothing..."

                                     desert scene with wire and bird

the stalking and harassment has continued without ceasing...well for quite a while now                                however my market value has stayed steady...about zero...a good round number....                                        i recently read "huckleberry finn" by mark twain and published in the usa in 1885                                        i read it rather quickly and was somewhat disappointed...the story is rather too complicated                          for young readers and the wholesale use of the word "nigger" (over 100 times) seemed indulgent even in the 1880's the word was a slur...as it still is...when i recently heard sidney poitier remark that he did not come into contact with americans until he was 15 years old so did not have           the habit if "cringing" around white people that was exactly the same notion i had when i visited the virgin islands...the were no "niggers" they had not learned to cringe...which is what richard pryor said when he went to africa...no "Niggers"...imagine that...i tell you what is worse than the abrupt and vile practice of prejudice is...the long slow degradation as implemented by a dominant class over a subservient class...i personally have know black men who have been "niggered" to death over a period of many years...men who had self respect and ambition who succumbed to daily "aggression" and died many years prematurely...it a gruesome thing to see...

"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market." Erich Fromm "The Sane Society" 

"Virtue is more clearly shown..."

                                     ants and the seed that they eat

i saw these ants and there were black round things around their entrance hole...rocks is what i figured they were...i figured the ants had picked up these rock and whittled them into round rocks...for what purpose i could not determine...then a little voice in my head said..."What! are you an idiot, those are seeds!" so i looked around and saw these prickly things and inside were the black seeds...but with a little white part..which must be the only part that they eat because the white part is gone on all the seeds around the ants entrance hole...another discovery for science...sort of...

i watched a very good movie a few days ago..."Dog Day Afternoon" with Al Pacino from 1975...spoiler alert...there are no dogs in this movie..it is about Sonny and Sal who try to rob a bank...it is not a documentary or a comedy...it is a tragedy...it is very dramatic..there is one memorable line which Sonny says to Leon which is the only funny line in the movie but it is still not a comedy the line is..."I'm with a guy who doesn't know where Wyoming is. Think you got problems!" anyhow Aristotle named tragedy as the highest form of poetry. Plato did not like tragedy...thought it would put bad ideas into the heads of youth...Socrates did not like tragedy either...Aristotle said tragedy has the power to impart virtue through the actors IMITATION of noble acts...i was thinking which poet might have written this movie...maybe charles bukowski...maybe alan ginsburg...who knows...Leon should get an academy award!

"Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than is the non-performance of base ones." Aristotle
 

"Grief is not in the Nature of things..."

                                                                                                                                                                                                 

 some of the native americans thought the coyotes would be the last animals on earth

coyote came around for a drink of water here in the desert last night...very nice to see them again            governor of california may try to get vigilantes to enforce assault weapons bans...not a very good idea

watched "the people versus o j simpson' on dvd...outstandingly performed...there was a bit of genius in the casting by courtney bright and nicole daniels...read in a science journal where new undiscovered germs are being found as the perma-frost thaws in the arctic...more than half the deer tested in america  have tested positive for covid...so we a can assume that any animals with lungs can be vectors...humans had best realize that deadly viruses will become increasingly common and all precautions should be taken to protect against infection...lots of nurses have said they have had enough and are going to take the money and run...good for them...i have been diagnosed with "FATTY GRUNT SYNDROME" and my lawyer "HARVEY BIRDMAN ATTORNEY AT LAW" says i can sue the grocery store...yeah!          also i have HOMOPHILY...as does everyone else...it means liking those like yourself...EVERYONE is prejudiced...manatee starving in florida...we have lots of lettuce leaves left in the fields in Yuma...found a dvd in the dollar store called "American Buffalo" with dustin hoffman, dennis franz, sean nelson...a shockingly emotional film which only re-enforces my opinion that hoffman has never made a bad movie..."Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion" cicero

 

"The importance of an individual thinker..."

 another animal burial in the desert....so long Zookie

heard a commentary about bill gates opinion that most meetings will be held via META...the commentator suggested otherwise...i told a long time acquaintance from the zoo biz that i thought the zoos of the future would be 3d and not live...he said i was wrong...mr zuckerberg is right to evolve into the 3d technology which has been so prevalent in our si-fi writing for so long...however if people can't look at their e-mail without becoming addicted they will really be in trouble when their senses are immersed in a 3d world...by the way mr zuckerberg is not yo' mama or yo' daddy...he did not take you to raise... he is a promoter of technology like henry ford and mr edison...i hope that some ambitious people can get enough 3d film footage of the vanishing wildlife that people can get a sense of these animals lives...while they are still alive...

I picked up a copy of  "Journey to the Center of the Earth" with 4 3d glasses a while back...very nice

"The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the mind of his successors." Alfred N. Whitehead

"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... 

 

"We can do without butter...

                                       i prefer butter thank you very much....

motivation? gun...                                                                                                                                              tucson policeman shoots man in wheelchair 9 times from behind...may be fired from force                           motivation? gun...                                                                                                                                              school shooting...motivation gun!                                                                                                  "The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."  Charles Darwin....lets face it the empowering force that guns have on many human is so overwhelming that it changes the way people encounter the world......              "....they can ignore me but they can't ignore my gun!" so mental health issues will need to be taken into consideration much more if the citizens are to be safe from those who would "run amok"....so I will recommend a movie that was the first movie for Kirk Douglas..."The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946) 1hr.57min.           with Barbara Stanwyck  and Lizabeth Scott and Van Heflin...and the subject is one of my favorites the corrupted District Attorneys office...

"We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with a gun." Paul Joseph Goebbels (1936)

 

"Superfluous branches..."

                                    moral dilemma-had to compromise...

awoke in the campsite next to the road above the lake on the edge of the ravine...                                          and there were kittens in my campsite...according to the bird people cats eat at least                                   a billion birds a year...not to mention rodents, lizards and insects....my general attitude is                     that for wildlife to live...cats must die...however the theory is easier to expound than the practice            of killing cats is to implement...so I was weak and just put out some food and water before I drove away...i hear a lot of coyotes at night here so they will probably be eaten before long...

now i don't want to sound like a person enthralled with death...but after listening to a couple of weeks of the climate summit in glasgow the one thing i never heard anyone mention is the possibility                     that the human population is going to have to be reduced for any of the goals to be met that will         result in less carbon in the atmosphere thereby alleviating the rise in temperatures and...well you            know...making things nice again...yeah right....so there was a lot of the little people wailing about            the fact that they did not spew the carbon into the air but they will suffer the most....blah blah and blah    i think the big people who they want to cough up a hundred billion bucks to give to the little people        to...? what? buy boats? insurance? what what what! i know of a famous animal trainer who used             to say "i can train any animal that has to eat"...and I say that all money should be tied to the stipulation that the "endangered" people will have to reduce their numbers...until this basic reality is accommodated there is not a snowballs chance in the sahara that the temperatures are likely to be               moderated for the better...now i think that since replication of our genes is what got us into this                pile of do do governments should start a gene bank so that when the human population gets down           to a survivable number...a hundred million? a billion? 5 billion? 3?...whatever it is having a lot of genetic material will be good for the gene pool...SAVE THE GENE POOL!

"Superfluous branches                                                                                                                                  We lop away, that bearing boughs may live" Shakespeare "Richard second"