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Off the wall? All in all, it's just another brick... Something there is that doesn’t love a wall - Robert Frost www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44266/mending-wall

"In the annals of the American Revolutionary War, we often focus on the military tactics, political maneuvering, and battlefield heroics that secured independence. However, one of General George Washington’s most consequential decisions had nothing to do with troop formations or artillery placement.

"Instead, it involved a bold medical intervention that may have saved the revolution. In February 1777, Washington ordered the mandatory inoculation of Continental Army troops against smallpox, implementing what historians consider the first mass immunization policy in American history.

A fairer view of Gerry? "Elbridge Gerry ... the namesake of “gerrymandering” ... was also instrumental in the birth of the United States, from signing the Declaration of Independence to attending the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

"And he was notable for refusing to sign the Constitution he’d helped shape. "Gerry worried that the document didn’t safeguard the rights of private citizens and left them vulnerable to the power of the executive and the charms of self-interested demagogues.

A fairer view of Gerry? "Elbridge Gerry ... the namesake of “gerrymandering” ... was also instrumental in the birth of the United States, from signing the Declaration of Independence to attending the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

A more relevant significance to "86"? Uniform Code of Military Justice §886. Art. 86. Absence without leave Any member of the armed forces who, without authority-

Might this possibly apply to a commander who plays golf, watches pro-wrestling, or lies abed while servicemen die and the world burns?

A more relevant significance to "86"? Uniform Code of Military Justice §886. Art. 86. Absence without leave Any member of the armed forces who, without authority-

Artemis Ascending! nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e008487/ of Christina Koch shows the first time a woman has seen the entire earth from space. (Her predecessors in low-earth orbit could see only part of the great globe.) And with the sun behind that orb, it is illuminated entirely by moonlight.

Artemis was goddess of nature, wilderness and wildlife, child-rearing and chastity. She was associated with transitions, as youth to adulthood; and with the moon. Homer gave her the honorific Potnia Theron, "She Whom Beasts Obey." This woodcut of Artemis is by the late Winifred Milius Lubell:

For whom the Lutine bell tolls? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%2... No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52829/... ... I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand — How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep — while I weep!

Sobriety of speech supplies a useful contrast to theatricality of manner. Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, and pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools.

Tao Te Ching, Ursula Le Guin tr. Ch. 17 Acting simply True leaders are hardly known to their followers. Next after them are the leaders the people know and admire; after them, those they fear; after them, those they despise.

And so, neither harming the other, these powers will come together in unity.

Tao Te Ching, Ursula Le Guin tr. Ch. 17 Acting simply True leaders are hardly known to their followers. Next after them are the leaders the people know and admire; after them, those they fear; after them, those they despise.

To give no trust is to get no trust. When the work’s done right, with no fuss or boasting, ordinary people say, Oh, we did it.

Thoughts, prayers and… Perverse investments? 20 years ago, betting against its own customers, Goldman Sachs crashed the world economy, ruined millions of innocents, and perhaps killed more than many recent wars, while making chair Lloyd Blankfein a billionaire: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS9r1Dk-Zg8.

What goes around... "GOP-led Oversight Committee says Biden pardons signed by autopen are ‘void’ in final report" - CNN And what happens when the current madness subsides? Will all those J6 and other criminals be un-pardoned?

Alternate-reality TV series: TEW? The West Wing was a wonderful fantasy about how honest, effective and responsible senior officials and staff could be. Smart, honorable, passionate about service. And many of the best good guys were Republicans who restrained their own team's bad guys.