Oh, my God, but humans are funny.  Stand by for 2019.  Hang onto your hats, folks, here we go again. But be of good cheer.  It ain't over until it's over!

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You will read a lot of bullshit about this card.  This method of execution was popular in Italy and doubtless everywhere else in Europe back in the Quattrocento.  It was reserved for traitors, a flexible term given the whole city state thing.  The individual thus strung up was allowed as much food and water as he wanted.  He is also suspended by one foot, not two.  All the tarot interpretations say that this is something to do with wisdom, ha ha!  This is a classic example of the decay of knowledge.  The original tarot had nothing to do with nonsense and everything to do with gambling.  I assume that the nature of chance led to the not unreasonable belief in cards being able to foretell the future.  My conclusion is that while cheating at cards is disgraceful and wrong, using them to peek into the hand that fate holds is disgraceful and wrong as well.   Regardless of what anyone says, this is a death card and a prognosticator ...

Henry Luhrs, American Manhood Magazine (and a real rip-roaring pic if ever I saw one). Luhrs, Animal Life Magzine Better Homes And Gardens, April, 1934 Henry Carl Luhrs, as can be seen, was a competent illustrator who went on to something far bigger than magazine covers and book illustrations.  This is an ad from 1954.  But Luhrs made his mark in industry, not artwork! Luhrs became a player in the sport boat game.  This is quite the achievement. As I type this I can see Key Allegro, an upscale neighborhood with some of the most badass sportfishing vessels afloat.  The market is hugely competitive and punished by high taxes, because a lot of people think that it is wrong to enjoy life fully if you have the means to do so. http://www.boatsdepot.org/boat-manufacturers/luhrs/ Not a bad legacy at all. Dreamy!

3 weeks ago I brought home the sweetest kitty ever found abandoned in a parking lot.  Now my entire family has ringworm, and we have had to go get antibiotics and various topical ointments because of my carelessness.   I got BoBo into the vet's today, and I was expecting him to scrape the cat and then I would wait a couple of days until the results got back.  The vet turned off the lights and put a blacklight on the kitty.  Where there was fluorescence, there was the fungus.  Fucking genius and oh so simple, like most smart things.  Now I have to give the kitty 1/2 cc of something or the other every day before meals. Next time I rescue an animal he/she/it goes into solitary until I have a clean bill of health for the same. This is just one example of the way I have run my life.  For the best of reasons I have made the worst mistakes, over and over and over again. Oh, well, only the grave can correct the hunchback. What have ...

You have your orders.  Slay them all. ("They have made a desert and call it peace" is a quote from the Scottish chieftain Calgacus, who's name translates as "has a blade".  In the context of Scottish lifestyle at the time this meant that Calgacus was no one to argue with.  Tacitus uses this in his biography of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father in law and a great Roman general.  Below is a partial quote and it is worth reading.  After all, the Romans were the scourge of the ancient world). "Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace".  Spot on.

All those opportunities wasted.  Goddamnit!