Same Old

Starting the day in the usual way and I ran across this quote, “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
- David Brin” Well said! And who among us is sane?

On a different note; I’m a big fan of the Writer’s Almanac and I’m always delighted when I get a chance to hear it, but I have to be in the car at 9:00 AM or I miss it. That doesn’t happen often enough, so I went to their website and now I get the daily show delivered by email. And you can even hear the great voice of Garrison Keillor. Today there’s a note about Max Planck, the ‘father’ of quantum physics. Poetry and physics; that’s what I like about this 5 minute show. You’re never certain of what you will hear.

And the first headline I see this morning is all about the use of steroids by the so-called athletes of baseball. After two years of investigation! Now that the confirmation of steroid use is finally out there for all to see, will the ‘fans’ do the right thing and avoid the major league ball parks as they should? Or will it be another ho-hum moment? Although the owners and the players did their best to foil the investigation, the ‘fans’ won't see that as a problem and will never give up their idol worship. Odds are it will soon be forgotten.

And at the local level, I will be busy all day, working at the parish hall, loading boxes of food for those residents of the Planet Orland that need some help this year. Unfortunately, that number is now over 365, countywide.