Well, I'm still awaiting results (and a bill) from an echocardiogram the cardiologist wanted to see before he would clear me for surgery. Sigh. Is this ever going to happen? I'm starting to lose hope.

*25 hours and 5 minutes.

My most beautiful thing is that a black man shattered a record set by a man who was trying to block the Civil Rights Act.

And IDGAF what the president thinks about the media outlet that revealed this. That is completely irrelevant to the topic of the sheer incompetence demonstrated by several top officials in his administration.

Maybe this is why Congress is letting Elon run roughshod all over the Constitution without doing anything about it.

... that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

-- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain...

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced...

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract...

We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this...

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure...

I used to think so too. Until...

Well, it is in the first book of The Bible. Eve was created to be a companion for Adam. Translation: women were created to service men, whether we want to or not.

No kidding. I worked for a big retailer who said we couldn't afford to hire enough people to run that location and couldn't afford to pay anyone much more than minimum wage but then gave a $280M severance package to the former GE CEO they strongly encouraged to resign.