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David Mitchell

In case some of you felt something shakey beneath your feet, I think the earth just shifted in the last few days. Not a full blown earthquake, but serious "tremors" in my opinion.

First,

The state of Oklahoma just approved public funding for a Catholic school - first time ever in the U.S. if I am not mistaken. I am among those who are not too favorable to this idea. I always bought into the argument that without government funding, we were also free of government control.   TBC.

Second,

Apple finally announced its new "Vison Pro" AR gogles - at $3,500 apiece!  In addition to a scary price tag, I pose the question, "Who needs this?" And will this be just one more technological path to social isolation?

Third (and perhaps most dissapointing)

The PGA (Professional Golf Association) shocked it's own membership with the surprise announcement of a merger with the Saudi Arabian funded LIV golf tour. Showing what unprincipled cowards they are, and what greedy scum bags the likes of Greg Norman, Phil MIckleson and others really are. They seem completely void of any notion that there is a real world outside of their little overpaid sports bubble. Some of their comments defending how "good this is for the game of golf" are embarrassing.

I'd love to know how much the PGA committee members were paid in bribes by the Saudis, who have been paying the "Norman-Mickleson" gang hundreds of millions apiece to play in their tournaments (some of which were played on Trump courses). Yes, I think the term "sports washing" is a pretty appropriate term. 

Meanwhile, Tiger, Rory, and others loyal to the PGA were left stunned as they were caught completely off guard by the announcement.

Michael McLeod

Dave. Stop reading the news. As your doctor I advise against it.

I should take my own advice.

One story in the newspaper I used to write for this morning tells me that the oceans are warming at an alarming rate and wildfires are increasing as well, thanks to human caused global warming affecting the air that we breathe and the swelter of our summers.

In other news also that two more conventions have cancelled their plans to meet in my city because of our governor's legislative campaigns against gays and educators. We have become an unfriendly tourist destination, or so being a hot spot in the culture wars can lead people to believe.

And the next page tells me that farmers in my state are losing money because the migrant workers they depend on are frightened to work in florida because of that same governors campaign to chase them away.

To summarize: I'm hot and getting hotter, my current profession is under siege, people are afraid to come to the town where I live, the workers who grow the food that I eat are getting kicked out of my state and oh yes fuggetabout breathing easy.

I believe this is what they call an existential crisis.

Plus I already know they're gunning for Mickey Mouse these days. Disney's too woke for them.

I'm just glad Cubby and Annette aren't here to see what we've become. Our world was so much simpler when we saw it all in comfy black and white.

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

Dave, Mike......perhaps listening to this presentation will take your mind off of the problems of this fallen world, a world that has been through one crisis after another for thousands of years.

https://youtu.be/DHaRm0xdliY

Michael McLeod

ok fine but I think the whole class should have to watch it. 

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

Don't worry Mike...it is not a mandatory assignment.

David Mitchell

Mike,

I'm afraid I have been a news junkie all my life.  Before dinner on weeknights, my dad used to sit me on his lap while he read the Dispatch to me. On Sundays after church we would both get down on the living rooom on all fours (me underneath him) and he would read Snuffy Smith, Steve Canyon, and my favorite, Prince Valient to me. 

Years later we would watch Huntley and Brinkley together (on those rare occaisions when he wasn't at the office or hospital till waaaay late) and he would ask me if I understood what they were talking about. He didn't like Croknite very well and definately not Howard K. Smith - who dad thougth was a "commie pinko". Dad was shocked years later when he watched H. K. Smith (on his live broadcast) actually advocate letting General Chiang Kai Shek invade North Vietnam to help us win the Vietnam War.

Watching the news reels of Civil Rights events literally changed my dad from a McCarthy-ite to a much less political person - and turned much more back to just his faith.

He was a bitter anti-Kennedy person, but he personally despised Richard Nixon from his early days as a California Congressman (on the "take" from L.A. Real Estate developers from way back - according to dad's youngest brother who lived in LA from about the late '30s to his death in the '80s.).     

Coming home from Vietnam I became an steady Tom Snyder fan ("ha ha ha") and then became a Ted Koppel addict during the Iran Hostage Crisis. 

I guess I would be considered a "terminal" case.

David Mitchell

Whoa! Speaking of news items..........................

John Maxwell

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

It was totally predicted!!!!

David Mitchell

Question: How many lawyers does it take to screw in a lighbulb?

Answer: As many as you can get.

Make Attorneys Get Attorneys

(enter Todd Blanche)

James Hamilton, M. D.

First Fawn - It's That Time of Year Again

Captured this newborn fawn (probably 1-2 days old) on my "Critter Cam" waking up yesterday.

Nightime video showed mom tucking him/her (no other pronouns, please!) in behind the rock.

Jim

Michael McLeod

aw, but Jim: they is so cute!

James Hamilton, M. D.

Mike,

And nature camouflaged them well!

Jim

P. S. And "it" will be acceptable for this single fawn! 

James Hamilton, M. D.

Mike,

​​​​​​Wow, impressive use of the English language - endeer and rein! 🦌

Is there a name for that linguistic maneuver? 

Jim

Joseph Gentilini

Beautiful picture of the fawn, Jim.  So sweet!  joe

Joseph D. McCarthy

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) once said:  "Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence in society."  

David Mitchell

Excited!

As of this past hour, I am floating on a cloud as my Denver Nuggets just won their first ever NBA Championship (in 47 years)!  I used to take my (now 51 year old ) son as a small boy to old McNIchols Arena to watch David Thompson, Dan Issell, Alex English, Kiki VandeWeghe, Fat Lever, Billy Hanzlik, and many others.

What a game! What a team! 

    (and what a strange player to become the best ever?)   

Worried!

I am praying that MIami sees no violence tomorow. Miami Mayor and Police Chief both claim they are prepared.  We shall see.

Please God, no crazies - no violence. 

Michael McLeod

I ike the quote Joe. Thanks and I shall return the favor.

As it happens I Just ran across a brilliant quote from Carl Jung:

"Thinking is hard. So people judge."

Janie Albright (Blank)

Joe, Mike, love the quotes! Pretty profound, except Joe, what about streakers?!

Michael McLeod

(blushes)

Janie: We're trying to elevated the conversation here. Get your mind out of the gutter!

Michael McLeod

rip cormac mccarthy.

if you want it darker he's your man.

I'll be binging - bingeing?- in his honor the next few weeks.

Joseph D. McCarthy

My dear classmate and Forum leader, Janie.

Do you remember the name of the "gentleman's" name who streaked at the Buckeye's game with Purdue in 1969?

Janie Albright (Blank)

Gosh, Joe, I do not! Don't tell me it was one of our classmates! 

Joseph D. McCarthy

I was just joking, at least I don't think anyone streaked THAT game.  The point I was trying to make was streakers are just a flash in time (yes Mike that was a intended as a pun.)  Nobody remembers them.

On the other hand, I have sad news, especially for those who were interested in Land Speed records.  I just learned that Land Speed King Craig Breedlove passed away April 4th at the age of 85.  When he could first Legally drive he drove a 1934 Ford to 154 MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats.  Eventually he set Land Speed Records at 407 MPH,  In the mid 1960's he set records at 458 MPH, 500 MPH, 526 MPH.  Then in 1965 set his best at 600.5 MPH at Bonneville, his final Land Speed Record.  

Mark Schweickart

Happy Father's Day to all of you fathers out there, who, like me, despite the teenage-eye rolling years, managed to balance our ineptitude with certain amount of grace and good will to the extent that we saw them into adulthood with very few scars. It may have been touch-and-go at times, but we made it! Congrats!