#3 Daughter, Maggie Bowman, was series producer for this Pulitzer-class winner.

He had just preached from Simon Peter’s boat, then told him to go out and fish some more. Bad night for fishing, Lord, said Simon Peter (whose wife’s fever Jesus had just brought down). They aren’t there.

Do it anyway, said Jesus, and thereby hangs a tale. So many fish were caught that when they got back to shore, Simon P. said, You better go. You don’t want to spend any more time with me, I’m a sinner.

Forget that, said Jesus. You’re hired. Not to fish for fish but for men (and women).

Simon P’s crew, James and John, got the idea. They came along too, charter members of Jesus’  team. And thereby hangs an even greater tale.

“If you are foolish enough to be contented, don’t show it, but grumble along with the rest.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

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Driver training compulsory. Gun safety too! Shooting range in every school.

New indoctrination to counter present, as Fox counters NBC et al., WSJ (for long time) counters NYT, etc.

Go-go new media, with this new schooling . . . on our way to a new gestalt, new (masculine) sensibility, vs. passivity, so self-defense.

Who are the two most populist-popular people in the world?

Trump and Pope Francis.

One on the right, other on the left.

One smart, the other not quite but shrewd.

One with clear, other with mixed, signals.

One a candidate, the other already elected after a stealth candidacy.

One worldly, other other-worldly with keen if not main interest in this one.

One vague on details, other over-detailed.

Both draw huge crowds, with Pope way ahead of T. in this respect. But give T. time.

For his sensational (I guess) saying put a hold on Muslim immigrants until we have a system for checking them out.

“Not at all,” said T.

Why would he? Because it’s proven unpopular among those who don’t like him anyway?

Won’t someone tell President O. what it stands for?

No Christians allowed.

It’s the tilt,longstanding pro Islam.

Rahm’s lawyer squeezed $206 billion out of Big Tobacco, he’s a hero of Big Govt. going for the money. But he screwed up Chicago cops reform, reports Konkol.

Nice going, Rahm.

Give us the money and we will disappear 26,000 unemployed people.

The Greater Austin IPO is proposing a 1.5 percent tax on city income, which organizer Jason Lee said could raise an additional $1.2 billion in revenue for the financially strapped city. That money could be used to create more than 26,000 jobs with livable wages in some of the city’s neediest communities, Lee said.

Get that? A $ billion-plus and 26,000-plus jobs for “some of the city’s neediest communities.”

Not all? Go ahead, say all. You’ll feel even better than when you say “some.”