Mathematicians took 2,300 years to prove squaring the circle is geometrically impossible. In one day, six kayakers and two loons showed me why it became the perfect idiom for trying to reconcile two conflicting things.
The Trump administration and Iranian leaders reaching a comprehensive and lasting peace deal, is about as likely as pair of pyromaniacs agreeing to design and pay for a new fire station.
Wildfires, smoke, Trump, Carney, tariffs
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The loons that grace the lake where I am now ensconced, can say everything they need others of their species to know, simply by mixing the syllables of four clear calls. English-speaking humans seem compelled to do the opposite.
I have the (thankfully rare) distinction of genetically-induced tunnel vision. I gave up driving before I was forced to, because of the danger I posed to myself and others.
The world has developed a severe case of empathy schizophrenia. This week’s egregious symptom is the aid and sympathy pouring forth for earthquake victims in Venezuela, and the absence of either for civilians in Gaza and southern Lebanon.
The end of the shooting in Iran should have cleared the confusion and skewed judgement of the “fog of war”. Instead, it’s been replaced by the fog of the catchall label “deal”.
The historical claim that the FIFA World Cup presents “…an opportunity to foster peace and goodwill among competing nations” is, unfortunately, more lofty ideal than reality. But it does have a useful application in the foul-beset field of diplomatic gamesmanship — Red and Yellow cards.
Among other things, the travesty that has been unfolding at CBS’s storied and incomparable 60 Minutes, has led me to conclude this: “The thinner the skin, the more emaciated the intellect and character of the one wearing it.”
In his memoir “Night”, the author Elie Weisel wrote: “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” As you read this, glasses have been, or are being raised to ensure that does not happen to Paul Douglas and James Brolan.