Today's Tids Issue 4,606
Out of the Vacuum:
There is virus,
I’ll call Cyrus,
Who will, yes, tryus
But’l never get byus.
Not in 4th of July-US!
I have to believe that a lot of
reaction over Cyrus is because of legal considerations in a litigious society. The
biggest genuine fear seems to be not knowing that much about the availability of
medical precautions and remedies. Let’s face it, I’m right up there in the high-risk
zone. And frankly I have worried about old fashioned flu all winter. But, this sense
of growing panic now seems a bit overblown, and potentially dangerous in itself.
I just urge reason and calm and intelligent living, and perhaps a little
wryness to overcome Cyrus and the depression infection.
Boston cancelled Their big annual Saint Pat’s
parade at a cost of about $21 million to city businesses. Down here in another Irish
stronghold city, Newport RI, the City council last night voted to keep the music
going, the bagpipes blowing this Saturday. The biggest danger to health will be
the over-consumption of booze and beer. But the hearts will be happy and the minds
will be carefree.
Old Bernie’s dedicated youth
let him down again in this just completed mini-Super Tuesday. Bern reminds me of
lots of former presidential hopefuls who captured the emotionally exuberant and
media, but went on to get trounced in the elections when the experienced voters
showed up. (John Anderson, Eugene McCarthy and more.)
And I could tell
by just watching his final salvos that Bernie had run out of things he could
give away for free.
I only ask for one thing
in this current phase of my life, just two up days in a row for the stock
markets.
As horses overran
downtown, the Mayor named the chief venue Mane Street.
The Question:
I hear it is Women’s Month. Really, I thought it was
every month. Do we forest women for the other 11 months? I think not. Who are considered
the “Greatest Renaissance Women in American History”?
The Headlines:
--China Reopening Factories; Dow, Nasdaq, S&P
Continue To Struggle With Vagaries Of Virus Impact.
--Biden Solidifies Growing Lead Over Bern; Bernie Nips
Joe In Washington; Delegate Count: Biden – 823, Bernie – 663; 1,991 Needed For Nomination;
Sanders Back In Vermont To Consider Future.
--Covid-19 Waning In China.
--Afghanistan To Release 1,500 Taliban Prisoners In
Major Step Towards Achieving Peace.
--Russia Parliament Backs Constitutional Changes That
Would Allow Putin To run Again For President.
--Newport RI City Council Votes 4-3 To Hold Saint Patrick’s
Day Parade.
A most serious disease that really
could strangle the USA is cyberattack-osis. It has just been revealed in a
report from the Cyberspace Solarium Commission (A Bipartisan Congress Commission)
that “The US is currently not designed to act with the speed and agility
necessary to defend the country in cyberspace. It goes on, “Our country has
lost hundreds of billions of dollars to nation-state sponsored intellectual
theft using cyber espionage.” The Commission is calling for a Senate Confirmed “National
Cyber Director” for the White House. The report commented, “Putin could hire
8,000 hackers for the price of one jet fighter.”
Word of the day: Vacuum.
Is it interesting because it has two “U’s”? Nah. It is defined as space completely
devoid of matter. Synonyms are emptiness, void, nothingness, vacancy and
nihility. I, you, we all experiment the vacuum effect. You know, that feeling of
what-just-happened-itis – one minute we are happily going along in our routines,
and then in what seems like an instant, nothing. It could be as simple as the end
of the NFL season to the sudden loss of a person that is a part of your life.
Yes vacuum can be scary and depressing. But seeing nothing there is also good
for focusing beyond what is missed. A vacuum-cleaner sucks away the dust. And
maybe a vacuum helps us discover the rust.
Over the past several years
I have received surveys asking questions like “What are your biggest concerns
about the USA”. (You know, things like Health Care, Abortion, Economy, Divisiveness.)
I always answer, Cyber insecurity.
Dems may never admit it,
but you have to figure a lot of them are elated at watching Cyrus destroy the
economy.
“r” is a pretty significant letter.
Yesterday I talked about how it changes friend into fiend. Even more important today
is how it changes “warning” about CV in China into “waning” virus in China. Let’s
hear it for the R’s!
As an Innocent on
the big board, I just have to figure that this market is about computers playing
games with each other.
Maybe the real virus
was planted in the computers of the NY Stock Exchange.
I think another big problem
in the US is rudeness, and sense of self over community, the avoidance of
caring about others. I’m calling it The Kazoo Society after that very
disconcerting Facebook Group commercial showing kids storming out of a college
lecture.
It is beginning to appear
that what happens in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada doesn’t mean a helluva lot
in the grand scheme of things. It’s just a good way for Cable news channels to lure
viewers.
A new study reveals
that being grumpy and mean-spirited helps you earn more money and live longer.
Huh! So much for my kindness crusade. I guess that’s living longer, miserably.
Bad Pun of the Month Department:
“I was really enjoying stargazing when it started to cloud over, much to my
constellation.” I warned you.
Yesterday I described
a new Feature for The Tids -- The Ramble. Let your emotions out. Here’s a short
political rant that arrived this morning (It seem like a ramble):
“I don’t want to be governed by the
outrageousness demands of those who want to dictate that "I do for
them" what they won't do for themselves.”
Every other day
you read the same headline about what is affecting the stock market. It is ceasing
to make any sense at all.
The Answer:
You may have to look up some of these great women to
appreciate their contributions. #1 is American computer scientist and Navy Rear
Admiral, Grace Hopper. Next is Ida B. Wells, followed by Hedy Lamarr, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Sally Ride, Maria Goeppert-Meyer, Elizabeth Blackwell, Ida Tarbell,
Audrey Hepburn and #10 Shirly Temple. The rest are Lucretia Mott, followed by Mary
Anderson (Who invented the Windshield Wiper), Julia Child, Judith Resnik,
Victoria Woodhull, Maya Angelou, Francis Willard, Patricia Roberts Harris and
Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
This was one of those pulling
teeth days. You know, the screen was more blank than ever days. I woke up in a
vacuum, and then as I stared at the wall, matter began to take shape. It always
does.
I’ll be awarding the
“Rude Kazoo” prize for rudeness I see in my travels or on the Tube or in the political
arena.
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