Amoebae Thoughts...
George Carlin- We like war; we are warlike people. We like it because we are good at it. You know why we are good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old, and already we have had 10 major wars. We average a major war every 20 years in this country, so we are good at it!
And it's a good thing we are; we are not very good at anything else anymore. Can't build a decent car, can't make a TV set or VCR worth a fuck. Got no steel industry left, can't educate our young people, can't get health care for our old people, but we can bomb the shit out of your country alright!
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Roman Emporers Vaspasian died on this day in 79AD. His last words:
"Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god."
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On this day in 1917, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retired 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
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From Skeptic Magazine
Top 10 myths of popular psychology
Myth #9: Full Moons Cause Crimes and Craziness
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On this day in 1931, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off on what would be a successful attempt to circumnavigate the globe. They traveled 15,747 miles in a Lockheed Vega named the Winnie Mae, in 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes.
Yes, successful, but too much ambition! That's the 8th deadly sin.
Wreckage from the submersible that went down to visit the Titanic wreckage was uncovered yesterday. Too much ambition. I saw Bill Burr last night, and he joked if humanity's future was just going to be getting killed in submersibles while we go down to visit the wreckage of other submersibles.
While I want to subject, he had a fantastic joke about jujitsu and domestic violence.
At one point he said he wasn't body shaming, that he's an artist and he's painting a visual picture.
He said that no one jokes with women about rape the way they joke about guys getting raped in prison, that it's a double standard.
He screwed up on time and said something about women getting together and eating cheese and stuff out of a chocolate fountain, and they put it away like a grizzly bear before Christmas. He caught himself, what the fuck does a grizzly bear care about Christmas? Then he riffed and joked about the grizzly bear standing up and putting the star on top of the tree.
He was on for an hour and a half, totally fun the way through.
I realized that one point that I was seeing him on the 15th anniversary of George Carlin's death. He certainly kept his torch lit- offending everybody and making everybody laugh at everything.
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Salman Rushdie- "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
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Peter Dinsdale started a fire at a house in Hull, England on this day in 1973, which killed a six-year-old boy. It was the first of 26 deaths caused by him over the next 7 years. Serial arsonists, how are they created?
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Nik Wallenda became the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope on this day in 2013. Again, like his grandfather used to say- "The dead are gone and the show must go on "
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Glenn Danzig was born on this day in 1955 with Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White) by Perez Prado and his Orchestra at the top of the charts. In two weeks it would be replaced by Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock.. He was the lead singer of the Misfits (who had something to say), and the subject of this iconic photograph.
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The Hill, June 22, 2017- North Korea: Trump a ‘psychopath’ who may launch strike to distract from US problems
No way, he'd never do THAT! His decisions are always measured, made with a calm state of mind. Bad thing when you have no option but to agree with North Korea!
http://hill.cm/cVkeL0E
June 23, 2017
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There you go Democrats... Republicans are "mean," and you are "nice." You can win elections on that, it's simple enough for everybody to understand. Even Donald "I Have Good Words" Trump can understand it... in fact, he thought of it. Thank him. Run with it.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/06/republicans-are-mean/
June 23, 2017
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June Carter, born 90 years ago today. I doubt if she'd want to be remembered any way other than Sarah Vowell's "A Love Story" from This American Life.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/247/what-is-this-thing/act-three
June 23, 2019
Maybe my favorite of her songs:
Tiffany Anastacia Lowe
I’ve been looking everywhere for Tiffany Anastasia Lowe
She’s my own granddaughter
She didn’t know how to play the guitar
So I took Mother Maybelle’s and taught her
She came out here to Hollywood to be a star
And Tiffany, I’m wondering where you are
She talked a lot about a man named Quentin Tarantino
Have you seen some of his movies that I’ve seen
I thought he was a country boy from Knoxville
But Quentin Tarantino makes his women wild and mean
So Tiffany, run and find an earthquake, girl
Go jump in a crack just don’t let Quentin Tarantino find out where you’re at
Cause Quentin Tarantino makes the strangest movies that I’ve ever seen
And Quentin Tarintino makes his women wild and mean
Now Quentin Tarantino’s women sometimes gets stuck with a hypodermic needle
They dance a lot and lose a lot of blood
But what’s the good of loving John Travolta
If he’s always dragging you through the mud
So Tiffany, run and find an earthquake, girl
Go jump in a crack just don’t let Quentin Tarantino find out where you’re at
Cause Quentin Tarantino makes the strangest movies that I’ve ever seen
Yeah, Quentin Tarantino makes his women wild and mean
Quentin Tarantino makes his women wild and mean
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The Phillies' Rick Wise performed one of the greatest feats by any picture in the history of baseball on this day in 1971. He no-hit what would become the Big Red Machine (Rose, Bench, Carter, etc) AND hit 2 home runs.
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Sad to hear that Frederic Forrest died. He played Chef in Apocalypse Now, and then Julie's dad a few years later in Valley Girl. That's quite a range!
June 23, 2023
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Other notable birthdays- Alan Turing (1912), Clarence Thomas (1948), Frances McDormand (1957)
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Another notable deathday- Jonas Salk (1995)
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"Forest Whitaker and His Holiness the Dalai Lama after taking part in a panel discussion on compassion in Minneapolis, MN, USA on June 23, 2017."
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Submission to the popular lexicon: "There but for the grace of science go thee."
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The Ultimate Warrior- LODGED IN MY SKULL ... WAS A PIECE OF THE CRYSTAL OF YOUR KINGDOM! YOUR MADNESS! THEY SAID, "BUT WARRIOR, IT'S LODGED INSIDE YOUR SKULL," AND I SAID, "SEW IT IN! LEAVE IT WHERE IT LAYS!"
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The longest English word with no repeating letters- uncopyrightable.
The most common word was six continents in a row- catchphrase.
The only common word with five vowels in a row- queueing
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Hume says that the only time we should accept somebody's testimony of a miracle, is if it would be more miraculous that their testimony was untrue.
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Bertrand Russell, Letter to Mr Major, collected in Dear Bertrand Russell: A Selection of his Correspondence with the General Public, 1950 - 1968- ”I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist. I do not think the existence of the God in Abrahamic religions any more probable than the existence of the Gods of Olympus or Valhalla. To take another illustration: nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice. I think the Christian God just as unlikely.”
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Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations- "Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."
But we've now seen it in monkeys.
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Jung- "It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going."
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Albert Einstein- "What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism."
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Powerhouse quote by cosmologist and astrophysicist, Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, English, born on this day in 1942.
"I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead--for our planet, and for life itself. Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4bn years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, 6bn years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae."
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