Hermit

Once upon a gloaming dreary, while I pondered weak and weary
over a book of quaint Lewisian Lore
I came upon a tale so disturbing, I tell you it was quite unnerving
The Adventures of a girl in a place of logic curving, swerving into madness one deplores
"Tis merely a stab at new math," I reasoned, "Merely this and little more"
Yet Alice's wrath shakes me to the core
 
And yet clearly I could read, how Alice made Wonderland bleed
As her curiosity she would feed, from flower bed to Mock Turtle's shore
Ever was her size a changing, by cakes and mushroom bites exchanging
Wonderland she was re-arranging, homes broken and queens endangering
"Curious" She cried, "And curiousor!"
 
Tea parties she crashed, leaving their ruins to smolder
her mad indifference ever colder, picking apart this world ever bolder
Why I think she even killed some soldiers! Scattered them like cards upon the floor
Madness taking her, and remaking her, into a monster any sane man would abhor
"Curious!" She howled, "And Curiousor!"
 
There is no haven, home, or palace-that can keep out the Alice
As she destroys that which is different, different from her!
As she bites growing cakes or drinks from shrinking chalice, now with a thirst for ruining
ruining more!
Alice cries, as her wrath she lets flies!
"CURIOUS! AND CURIOUSOR!"
 
Character Pick: Alice, From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
 

Once upon a gloaming dreary, while I pondered weak and weary
over a book of quaint Lewisian Lore
I came upon a tale so disturbing, I tell you it was quite unnerving
The Adventures of a girl in a place of logic curving, swerving into madness one deplores
"Tis merely a stab at new math," I reasoned, "Merely this and little more"
Yet Alice's wrath shakes me to the core
 
And yet clearly I could read, how Alice made Wonderland bleed
As her curiosity she would feed, from flower bed to Mock Turtle's shore
Ever was her size a changing, by cakes and mushroom bites exchanging
Wonderland she was re-arranging, homes broken and queens endangering
"Curious" She cried, "And curiousor!"
 
Tea parties she crashed, leaving their ruins to smolder
her mad indifference ever colder, picking apart this world ever bolder
Why I think she even killed some soldiers! Scattered them like cards upon the floor
Madness taking her, and remaking her, into a monster any sane man would abhor
"Curious!" She howled, "And Curiousor!"
 
There is no haven, home, or palace-that can keep out the Alice
As she destroys that which is different, different from her!
As she bites growing cakes or drinks from shrinking chalice, now with a thirst for ruining
ruining more!
Alice cries, as her wrath she lets flies!
"CURIOUS! AND CURIOUSOR!"
 
Character Pick: Alice, From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
 

Once upon a gloaming dreary, while I pondered weak and weary
over a book of quaint Lewisian Lore
I came upon a tale so disturbing, I tell you it was quite unnerving
The Adventures of a girl in a place of logic curving, swerving into madness one deplores
"Tis merely a stab at new math," I reasoned, "Merely this and little more"
Yet Alice's wrath shakes me to the core
 
And yet clearly I could read, how Alice made Wonderland bleed
As her curiosity she would feed, from flower bed to Mock Turtle's shore
Ever was her size a changing, by cakes and mushroom bites exchanging
Wonderland she was re-arranging, homes broken and queens endangering
"Curious" She cried, "And curiousor!"
 
Tea parties she crashed, leaving their ruins to smolder
her mad indifference ever colder, picking apart this world ever bolder
Why I think she even killed some soldiers! Scattered them like cards upon the floor
Madness taking her, and remaking her, into a monster any sane man would abhor
"Curious!" She howled, "And Curiousor!"
 
There is no haven, home, or palace-that can keep out the Alice
As she destroys that which is different, different from her!
As she bites growing cakes or drinks from shrinking chalice, now with a thirst for ruining
ruining more!
Alice cries, as her wrath she lets flies!
"CURIOUS! AND CURIOUSOR!"
 
Character Pick: Alice, From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
 

Once upon a gloaming dreary, while I pondered weak and weary
over a book of quaint Lewisian Lore
I came upon a tale so disturbing, I tell you it was quite unnerving
The Adventures of a girl in a place of logic curving, swerving into madness one deplores
"Tis merely a stab at new math," I reasoned, "Merely this and little more"
Yet Alice's wrath shakes me to the core
 
And yet clearly I could read, how Alice made Wonderland bleed
As her curiosity she would feed, from flower bed to Mock Turtle's shore
Ever was her size a changing, by cakes and mushroom bites exchanging
Wonderland she was re-arranging, homes broken and queens endangering
"Curious" She cried, "And curiousor!"
 
Tea parties she crashed, leaving their ruins to smolder
her mad indifference ever colder, picking apart this world ever bolder
Why I think she even killed some soldiers! Scattered them like cards upon the floor
Madness taking her, and remaking her, into a monster any sane man would abhor
"Curious!" She howled, "And Curiousor!"
 
There is no haven, home, or palace-that can keep out the Alice
As she destroys that which is different, different from her!
As she bites growing cakes or drinks from shrinking chalice, now with a thirst for ruining
ruining more!
Alice cries, as her wrath she lets flies!
"CURIOUS! AND CURIOUSOR!"
 
Character Pick: Alice, From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
 

Easier than sending him up in a homemade rocket.
 
(Too soon?  Sorry...)

Sure, you use that new fangled logic and Geee ooo Graphy, see how far that gets you
 
(Reads news:  Your country is doing fine? well, better stick  with that logic and geography stuff then. I'll be over here clubbing a flat Earther with a globe)

The costs of secrecy

Early indications are one common thread is- People under 40 just aren't voting.
I'm not going to shake my fist at every younger person  I see, but I do wish they'd found the motivation to get out more.
 
Warren's gonna catch some unfair flack for this from the more extreme Bernie supporters (And perhaps others pretending to be Bernie supporters) but I don't begrudge her staying in. If we get a brokered convention she can have enough influence to push for some of her agendas even if I don't think she's going to have the superdelegates look at her and go 'hey, you! how did we not see you?'
 
The good news is, maybe I've been wrong, and Biden inspires more folks than I thought he did. 
 
Of course, a lot of the states were in the South... and in the General Election it's gonna go 90% Red anyway. We'll see how the others go, but it looks like ultimately the super delegates will decide.
 
 
 
 

Early indications are one common thread is- People under 40 just aren't voting.
I'm not going to shake my fist at every younger person  I see, but I do wish they'd found the motivation to get out more.
 
Warren's gonna catch some unfair flack for this from the more extreme Bernie supporters (And perhaps others pretending to be Bernie supporters) but I don't begrudge her staying in. If we get a brokered convention she can have enough influence to push for some of her agendas even if I don't think she's going to have the superdelegates look at her and go 'hey, you! how did we not see you?'
 
The good news is, maybe I've been wrong, and Biden inspires more folks than I thought he did. 
 
Of course, a lot of the states were in the South... and in the General Election it's gonna go 90% Red anyway. We'll see how the others go, but it looks like ultimately the super delegates will decide.
 
 
 
 

So you can't just buy the American Presidency. That's a positive note.

*Sigh* SUper Tuesday is not going as well for Bernie as I hoped.
Ah well, Better Biden that Bloomberg IMO

"Hear the clicking heels of Gale
Dorothy Gale
What a doom of witches their clashing soon foretells!
How the silver tinkles, tinkles
to send a witch to fright
for the girl from Kansas sprinkles
as her eyes so wholesomely twinkle
with homicidal delight
what a world, world, world
as her destiny's unfurled
to cause painful witch liquidation as the pool of green it wells
At the hands of Dorothy Gale, Gale, Gale
Gale Gale Gale
Is there witch egression from the murderous transgressions of Dorothy Gale?
 
 
Author Pick:  Edgar Allan Poe

Character Pick: Dorothy Gale from Frank L Baum's Wizard of Oz books (They were Silver slippers in the books)

 

Author is H.P. Lovecraft
 
And character is Athos from the Three Musketeers

I have had that happen to me.
 
I have actually been in a conversation with an anti-theist that began to demand if I thought there was a literal talking snake etc etc...
I told him that much of the old testament was metaphorical, ,symbolism used to illustrate ...
and because I did not believe that every chapter in the bible was literal, he declared that I was not a "real" religious person.
 
There's really no winning with that sort of zealot on either side.
 
 
 

Character: Tyrion Lannister
  "I drink, and I know things."    

"Hear the clicking heels of Gale
Dorothy Gale
What a doom of witches their clashing soon foretells!
How the silver tinkles, tinkles
to send a witch to fright
for the girl from Kansas sprinkles
as her eyes so wholesomely twinkle
with homicidal delight
what a world, world, world
as her destiny's unfurled
to cause painful witch liquidation as the pool of green it wells
At the hands of Dorothy Gale, Gale, Gale
Gale Gale Gale
Is there witch egression from the murderous transgressions of Dorothy Gale?
 
 
Author Pick:  Edgar Allan Poe

Character Pick: Dorothy Gale from Frank L Baum's Wizard of Oz books (They were Silver slippers in the books)

 

I can see the astrophysicists yelling back, "Like we'd tell YOU, you crotch-rot kids!"

"Hear the clicking heels of Gale
Dorothy Gale
What a doom of witches their clashing soon foretells!
How the silver tinkles, tinkles
to send a witch to fright
for the girl from Kansas sprinkles
as her eyes so wholesomely twinkle
with homicidal delight
what a world, world, world
as her destiny's unfurled
to cause painful witch liquidation as the pool of green it wells
At the hands of Dorothy Gale, Gale, Gale
Gale Gale Gale
Is there witch egression from the murderous transgressions of Dorothy Gale?
 
 
Author Pick:  Edgar Allan Poe

Character Pick: Dorothy Gale from Frank L Baum's Wizard of Oz books (They were Silver slippers in the books)

 

First pick is Hermione Granger!
 

"Hear the clicking heels of Gale
Dorothy Gale
What a doom of witches their clashing soon foretells!
How the silver tinkles, tinkles
to send a witch to fright
for the girl from Kansas sprinkles
as her eyes so wholesomely twinkle
with homicidal delight
what a world, world, world
as her destiny's unfurled
to cause painful witch liquidation as the pool of green it wells
At the hands of Dorothy Gale, Gale, Gale
Gale Gale Gale
Is there witch egression from the murderous transgressions of Dorothy Gale?
 
 
Author Pick:  Edgar Allan Poe

Character Pick: Dorothy Gale from Frank L Baum's Wizard of Oz books (They were Silver slippers in the books)

 

Well, I think it is safe to say with a Tornado, turn out for the primaries in Nashville has every reason to be low.
 
Here in Eastern TN, I voted at roughly 9:30. I was the only voter in the room though I did see a guy leave the building as I came in. It's rainy and miserable, and most importantly most folks are at work and won't get a chance till lunch. Technically TN has a law where you get a few hours to go vote but most Tennesseans don't know that rule or even if they do are cautious of chancing in a state that wants to put 'Right to Hire" (Read as 'Right to fire") in it's state constitution.
 
We'll see if I"m wrong, but I don't predict any record breaking turnouts for my state.
 
 

I kind of want this webcomic now
 
 

Why do I have this mental image of a micro- biologist leaning in the hallway and yelling at the physics department guys "Suck on it, particle jockeys! Where's your giant earth smashing asteroids NOW?"

WIthout her hate for Pete to power her, she lost the will to run?
 
Ahem sorry.
 
Yeah, big boosts for Biden underway