Cold Blows

"Cold blows the wind over my true love, cold blows the drops of rain..."

Once again on this (Tuesday, Mangal-waar, Seshanbeh, yawm-ath-thalatha, Boomtime) the weather has taken a sharp turn and it is windy and cold. I was thinking this morning as I was standing in my garage watching the weird old bearded sow across the street clean his windows off with a towel while wearing shorts (I've only seen him wear shorts and am not sure he owns any pants), that this has been a brutal winter for much of the US of A. We're all due for some nice weather.

If you were thinking to yourself, "God it's been awhile since I've heard a good palindrome," I've got the most famous one for you right here today, brothers and sisters: Able was I ere I saw Elba. As I sure you know, a palindrome is a phrase that is spelled the same in either direction. The Greeks referred to this as karikinike epigraphe, or "crab inscription". This reminds me of something my granpa used to tell me, "Crabs on your plate are always better than crabs in your pants."

And speaking of Elba, in 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte espcaped from that island where he had been imprisoned. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the National Banking Act into law. In 1870 the first pneumatic-subway opened in NYC. In 1897 Sigma Pi fraternity was founded at Vincennes University, which is the oldest public college in the extremely dull state of Indiana. Their mascot is the Trailblazers. In 1917 the first jazz album was recorded. Two years later the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park. Grand Teton National Park was then established in 1929. In 1970 NPR was incorporated as a non-profit organization which is why they have those incredibly annoying fund raisers a couple times per year which make you want to commit suicide. In 1972 a dam burst in West Virginia resulting in a flood which killed 125 people. In 1991 Tim Berners-Lee introduced the WorldWideWeb. Without the www we would have nothing. We would be helpless. Praise god for the www and the gift of free porn. In 1993 a truck bomb exploded at the World Trade Center in NYC killing 6 and injuring over a 1000. In 2001 the Taliban destroyed two giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan because they thought they looked like fat Americans. One of the things the terrorists hate most is obesity. They are very health conscious those terrorists. And in 2004 the US lifted the travel ban to Libya, which used to be a terrorist haven. Now anyone can go to Libya and enjoy whatever it is one might enjoy in Libya.

For our Baha'i friends today is not only Fidal but also the first Ayyam-i-Ha. All day you will hear people walking around saying, "Ha!" for apparently no reason. Do not be afraid. Just say, "Ha!" back and you will be rewarded with strange looks and a muffin.

It is Savior's Day for the Nation of Islam in commemoration of the birth of its founder Wallace Fard Muhammad who they believe was Allah incarnate and the savior of the black race. In other words, it's like Christmas minus the cards, decorations, music, and the fact that no one knows who the hell Wallace Fard Muhammad was or what he did that was so Allah-like. It is assumed that he was born in New Zealand and that his parents came from Hawaii. This sounds like Barrack Obama... one difference is that WFM served a stint in the pokey for drug trafficking while Barack went to Harvard. I guess if Allah was to reappear on earth he would get busted for selling crack and go to prison. This makes sense in that the Taliban are all super Muslims and they sell heroin. And if Barrack Obama is Wallace Fard Muhammad incarnate, then maybe he will legalize drugs which will then take the profit out of illegal drug sales and thus reduce the criminalization of the urban poor (who will then have to look for some other illegal avenue in order to make fast money).

It is Liberation Day in Kuwait which is a Muslim nation but does not condone the selling or using of drugs.

Happy Birthday: Victor Hugo, dead frog who wrote Les Miserables; German-born Levi Strauss; Buffalo Bill; Herbert Henry Dow, after whom everything in Midland, MI is named; Jackie Gleason; Fats Domino- "I found my thril, on Blueberry Hill" (blueberries have a warm place in my heart); Johnny Cash; Michael Bolton; and Erykah Badu.

"Kill two birds with one stone. Feed the homeless to the hungry."