Loved reading " The 10 ' most beautiful experiments of all time "
in the Providence Sunday Journal, Sept.29, page A-17. But a weighty
error that cannot be dismissed as a typo is right here : the eccentric
Henry Cavendish had ingeniously weighed the earth. But the figure given
in your article fails to indicate EXPONENTIAL value. The approximate
mass of the earth is 6.0 x 10 ( multiplied by itself 24 times ).
NOT 6.0 x 1024 kilograms. A good banker knows what compound
interest does to a sum of money. Tell him he is worth that in gold and
he will smile. Give it as EXPONENTIAL and he will faint: He now owns
the universe !
Was a New York Times editor asleep on the job ? A while
back this humble letter writer discovered them to be obtuse on
the famous Periodic Table.
But THANKS for a very interesting story !
Monday, September 30, 2002
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Sainthood for Evita Peron too ?
Being a Catholic by fate if not by piety, I keep up with
Church affairs by reading " The Providence Visitor ". I do recommend
reading this weekly for a balanced view on the sex scandals.
Yesterday I was amused to read that the famous Catholic
TV personality and Church scholar-or propagandist- Archbishop Fulton
J. Sheen is being considered for sainthood. Catholic baby boomers-
who experienced the golden age of The Church in America - will never
forget that guy with his piercing, pious look - and that blackboard
with short notes on it suggesting that for this mighty intellect
Hell fire was as real as global warming is for the Greens today.
I don't know what my opinion might be worth in the higher
circles of the Church. But I think that Argentina's legendary " Evita "
- Eva Peron - who did more for her poor people than Mother Teresa -
is a more credible candidate for sainthood than Fulton J. Sheen -
whose fierce anti-communism at times made him seem more loyal to
capitalism than Catholicism.
" Evita " had the heart of the saint -even if certain
cynics would brand her as the patron saint of prostitutes.
Next time I visit LaSallette, I will light a candle for
my kind and lovely " Evita ". Saint or no saint, the death of a
beautiful woman is always the stuff of great poetry.
"... Santa, Santa Evita ! "
Church affairs by reading " The Providence Visitor ". I do recommend
reading this weekly for a balanced view on the sex scandals.
Yesterday I was amused to read that the famous Catholic
TV personality and Church scholar-or propagandist- Archbishop Fulton
J. Sheen is being considered for sainthood. Catholic baby boomers-
who experienced the golden age of The Church in America - will never
forget that guy with his piercing, pious look - and that blackboard
with short notes on it suggesting that for this mighty intellect
Hell fire was as real as global warming is for the Greens today.
I don't know what my opinion might be worth in the higher
circles of the Church. But I think that Argentina's legendary " Evita "
- Eva Peron - who did more for her poor people than Mother Teresa -
is a more credible candidate for sainthood than Fulton J. Sheen -
whose fierce anti-communism at times made him seem more loyal to
capitalism than Catholicism.
" Evita " had the heart of the saint -even if certain
cynics would brand her as the patron saint of prostitutes.
Next time I visit LaSallette, I will light a candle for
my kind and lovely " Evita ". Saint or no saint, the death of a
beautiful woman is always the stuff of great poetry.
"... Santa, Santa Evita ! "
Monday, September 23, 2002
" Buddy " again and my PROJO Horoscope
With reference to the " criminal " Mayor Cianci a letter to
the editor today ( Sept.13 ) is fatuously titled : " Rhode Islanders
like criminals ". I think we like justice a little more. The prosecution
against our " Buddy " was so goofy that their case against him -known
as Plunderdome - came one count away from being sarcastically renamed
Blunderdome.
Why could not the prosecution present a single witness of
integrity to point a finger at the prince of Providence: " You
stole MY money.... YOU ruined my life " ? The testimony of assorted
bums should not have sufficed to convict Cianci of anything.
If he stole money from his beloved city, HOW MUCH did he
steal, WHAT did he spend this money on, WHERE is the rest of it ?
The Cianci trial was a distraction from the far greater
scandal of corporate corruption. Has George W. Bush disowned his
Enron buddies ? In general American capitalism has become a CRIMINAL
ENTERPRISE.
If guilty, our " Buddy " is just a crooked shoe-shine boy !
By the way my PROJO horoscope this morning reads : " Be careful
- your words will be quoted far and wide ".
the editor today ( Sept.13 ) is fatuously titled : " Rhode Islanders
like criminals ". I think we like justice a little more. The prosecution
against our " Buddy " was so goofy that their case against him -known
as Plunderdome - came one count away from being sarcastically renamed
Blunderdome.
Why could not the prosecution present a single witness of
integrity to point a finger at the prince of Providence: " You
stole MY money.... YOU ruined my life " ? The testimony of assorted
bums should not have sufficed to convict Cianci of anything.
If he stole money from his beloved city, HOW MUCH did he
steal, WHAT did he spend this money on, WHERE is the rest of it ?
The Cianci trial was a distraction from the far greater
scandal of corporate corruption. Has George W. Bush disowned his
Enron buddies ? In general American capitalism has become a CRIMINAL
ENTERPRISE.
If guilty, our " Buddy " is just a crooked shoe-shine boy !
By the way my PROJO horoscope this morning reads : " Be careful
- your words will be quoted far and wide ".
Saturday, September 21, 2002
Big Brother was watching Miss TOO-GOOD !
It seems that a lot of wicked people nowadays - like Miss
Too-Good whacking her kid in the back of a car - are being caught
on camera. And if you say " bring it down " a little too loudly
in a public place - and have that sinister Middle-Eastern look-
almost certainly a virtuous busy body will drop a dime on you.
It good to know that the nice people of the world
are ever ready to stop the nasty people -even at the moment of
conception , when the nasty deed is just a nasty thought.
How many of us ordinary Americans - not overcome
by the flatulent war rhetoric of George W. Bush - can identify
with Winston Smith in George Orwell's " 1984 " ? Not until Winston
was re-educated in the Ministry of Truth could he - finally - love
Big Brother - who was always WATCHING YOU !
And Miss Too-good - perhaps - was trying too hard to
be the perfect good mother. Observed Winston in " 1984 " : " Almost
all kids were brats nowadays ". Often they reported their rotten
parents to the Ministry of Love -where they could expect a punishment
more severe than an old fashioned spanking. For Winston there was
Room 101.
The NICE PEOPLE want the rest of us to know this : " BIG
BROTHER IS WATCHING " .
Learn the art of brainless conformity now. Or you will
learn it in Room 101.
Too-Good whacking her kid in the back of a car - are being caught
on camera. And if you say " bring it down " a little too loudly
in a public place - and have that sinister Middle-Eastern look-
almost certainly a virtuous busy body will drop a dime on you.
It good to know that the nice people of the world
are ever ready to stop the nasty people -even at the moment of
conception , when the nasty deed is just a nasty thought.
How many of us ordinary Americans - not overcome
by the flatulent war rhetoric of George W. Bush - can identify
with Winston Smith in George Orwell's " 1984 " ? Not until Winston
was re-educated in the Ministry of Truth could he - finally - love
Big Brother - who was always WATCHING YOU !
And Miss Too-good - perhaps - was trying too hard to
be the perfect good mother. Observed Winston in " 1984 " : " Almost
all kids were brats nowadays ". Often they reported their rotten
parents to the Ministry of Love -where they could expect a punishment
more severe than an old fashioned spanking. For Winston there was
Room 101.
The NICE PEOPLE want the rest of us to know this : " BIG
BROTHER IS WATCHING " .
Learn the art of brainless conformity now. Or you will
learn it in Room 101.
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