A smattering of applause

The Giants (baseball) broadcaster Mike Krukow said the other night of all the stats/metrics now kept in Major League Baseball, "it's mind-boggling, I think they've designed it so everybody leads the league in something."

Question for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh: presuming you are as righteous and law abiding as you present yourself as being, truly committed to preserving the US as a country of laws not men, why would you accept a nomination from a man like D Trump?

"The power of laughter among men is great and terrifying, and no one can consciously protect himself entirely from it. He who has courage to laugh is master of the world and is not much different from one who is prepared to die." (Leopardi, from Pensieri, trans. by W.S. diPiero, Oxford University Press, 1981.)

Thoreau claimed a man could get by working only 6-weeks a year. But we need to remember that when Thoreau made this claim the miniumum wage went a lot further and poets tended to live with their mothers.

"It was just yesterday. I was out walking with my friend Jane, we were looking for something to amuse us in that strange village in the hills of southern Italy, having come to believe that if the world has a future it's a walking one.

"I walked a lot, almost all the time when I was living in the classical world." (Thomas Fuller, from The Classical World, IF SF Publications, 2018.)

 Screenshot of original typescript, The Classical World, a Novel of Ideas by Thomas Fuller, 2018.