Long-ago cartoonist-of-the-absurd Rube Goldberg worked up a perpetual-motion machine “powered by Niagara Falls, which seems to run perpetually until the machine itself wears out,” recalls today’s New York Sun (which ran Rube G’s cartoons a long time ago), concluding that such a wearing-out “could yet be the fate of the Fed,” our Rube Goldbergian money machine.

Today’s candidate for winner of the week.

And the judge will allow bail if he’s electronically monitored — after he drove off with his Lincoln while cops about to tow it were answering phony 911 call he had just made. A truly upstanding citizen.

Obama mocked and vilified.

Why not? Because the glass is half full, dummy.

Actually, I do feel better when I look at it that way.

E-mails, son-in-loaw, emails, in that order, to be read and wept over.

#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.