Pat, it depends on whether his right elbow is propped up on his left thigh making the pose apropos to Rodin’s ubiquitous statue. Or, do we have it backwards–Rodin wasn’t born until 1840.
Book of the weekÂ
THE PAINTED WORD, by Tom Wolfe.
Visually, I’d prefer the Rodin in my living room over the pic of Ben hanging on my wall.
flatus, good point on having it backwards. ben was amb. to france and there must have been many a tale handed down about him there via french history books, family gossip and old letters any one of which may have inspired a young monsieur rodin.  🙂Â
sturge, am afraid i’d need to move a few things out for the statue to fit in… like maybe a wall and ceiling.
Bink from yesterday. “Trump steals your tax-dollars to go golfing, shit on a gold toilet, give his dumb kids jobs and send them on fabulous vacations you could never afford, negotiates with terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks that killed 3000 Americans, keeps children in cages to punish their parents, makes friends with dictators that starve their own people and makes enemies out of our closest allies.” Good one.Jamie, so right about change!Â
Who you gonna vote for?
Jamie, so right about change.
Tiptoe!  Thank you!  You’re my “Dorothy Boyd”.
Here’s one more for you:
Trump, as President, is supposed to be a public servant- he is supposed to work FOR YOU. Â But if you pay federal taxes, and you do, and because he uses those tax dollars to enrich himself by steering federal money to his resort and hotel properties, YOU WORK FOR HIM.
Ok, we’ll see you all, again, sweet dreams. C’mon Tiptoe, let’s go.  Right now.
Change Gonna Come…. Â change came with Trump…. Â Â hey, you wicked smart trumpsters…how’s it working out for y’all.
Good to hear Brother Cooke again….it’s been awhile.
Pat, that old floor might need a bit of reinforcements while yer at it…..but what a conversation piece…….
Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to keep the government open through late November, setting up a showdown later this year over President Trump’s border wall that could lead to a government shutdown before Thanksgiving. The Senate is expected to approve the short-term measure next week. This is a developing story. It will be updated.
looks like a lot of congress critters will be home and able to campaign during the holidays.
Sturg, I was really surprised when I saw Albert Einstein standing top-center in the title page of your Sam Cooke video. Was he a regular? Here is an example of Albert’s usual fare
Well, I get what he was saying about music; in that, he and I are relatively the same.Â
But I do wonder if maybe he just thought it was a good way to meet chicks.
How about that masterful performance by SFB about the “wall” ?  Sounded like a 9th grader after taking Intro to General Science trying to explain the Big Bang  using a few terms heard in the discussion of general relativity. Â
An orchestrated war cry that also raised the price of oil. Â Maybe the Saudis punched themselves in the face? Â Â
And what of the whistleblower whose red flag about Trumpsky is being blocked from getting to the ear of Congress? Â Â
pogo, I gather you mean that “my wall is big. so big, it’s bigly big and so bad it’s hot, hotly hot because it’s painted black like my big sharpie and has mean thingies at the top which is really really high!”Â
guess it validates his masculinity to have such a big bad mean wall.
Twitter already has pictures of dudes with large backpacks scrambling right up the wall like they had climbing gear.
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The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Query for today:Â Is the painting of nekked ben not just a joke about him on the potty and merely a knock-off of Rodin’s The Thinker or is it an expression of one of his deeply held theories?
https://knowledgenuts.com/2014/01/07/benjamin-franklin-liked-to-take-air-baths/
Pat, it depends on whether his right elbow is propped up on his left thigh making the pose apropos to Rodin’s ubiquitous statue. Or, do we have it backwards–Rodin wasn’t born until 1840.
Book of the weekÂ
THE PAINTED WORD, by Tom Wolfe.
Visually, I’d prefer the Rodin in my living room over the pic of Ben hanging on my wall.
flatus, good point on having it backwards. ben was amb. to france and there must have been many a tale handed down about him there via french history books, family gossip and old letters any one of which may have inspired a young monsieur rodin.  🙂Â
sturge, am afraid i’d need to move a few things out for the statue to fit in… like maybe a wall and ceiling.
Bink from yesterday. “Trump steals your tax-dollars to go golfing, shit on a gold toilet, give his dumb kids jobs and send them on fabulous vacations you could never afford, negotiates with terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks that killed 3000 Americans, keeps children in cages to punish their parents, makes friends with dictators that starve their own people and makes enemies out of our closest allies.” Good one.Jamie, so right about change!Â
Who you gonna vote for?
Jamie, so right about change.
Tiptoe!  Thank you!  You’re my “Dorothy Boyd”.
Here’s one more for you:
Trump, as President, is supposed to be a public servant- he is supposed to work FOR YOU. Â But if you pay federal taxes, and you do, and because he uses those tax dollars to enrich himself by steering federal money to his resort and hotel properties, YOU WORK FOR HIM.
Ok, we’ll see you all, again, sweet dreams. C’mon Tiptoe, let’s go.  Right now.
Change Gonna Come…. Â change came with Trump…. Â Â hey, you wicked smart trumpsters…how’s it working out for y’all.
Good to hear Brother Cooke again….it’s been awhile.
Pat, that old floor might need a bit of reinforcements while yer at it…..but what a conversation piece…….
wapo:
Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to keep the government open through late November, setting up a showdown later this year over President Trump’s border wall that could lead to a government shutdown before Thanksgiving. The Senate is expected to approve the short-term measure next week.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
looks like a lot of congress critters will be home and able to campaign during the holidays.
Sturg, I was really surprised when I saw Albert Einstein standing top-center in the title page of your Sam Cooke video. Was he a regular? Here is an example of Albert’s usual fare
Well, I get what he was saying about music; in that, he and I are relatively the same.Â
But I do wonder if maybe he just thought it was a good way to meet chicks.
How about that masterful performance by SFB about the “wall” ?  Sounded like a 9th grader after taking Intro to General Science trying to explain the Big Bang  using a few terms heard in the discussion of general relativity. Â
An orchestrated war cry that also raised the price of oil. Â Maybe the Saudis punched themselves in the face? Â Â
And what of the whistleblower whose red flag about Trumpsky is being blocked from getting to the ear of Congress? Â Â
pogo, I gather you mean that “my wall is big. so big, it’s bigly big and so bad it’s hot, hotly hot because it’s painted black like my big sharpie and has mean thingies at the top which is really really high!”Â
guess it validates his masculinity to have such a big bad mean wall.
Twitter already has pictures of dudes with large backpacks scrambling right up the wall like they had climbing gear.
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