For a while there I thought there was something amiss with my browser; you guys were talking about stuff that didn't appear anywhere on the Institute's main page. What is this "design" tab you speak of, I wondered. And then it is revealed, you guys had admin access while I was a humble author. But now, thanks to Mr. Beagles, I got a promotion...Woo Woo! I now know what you guys were talking about and by golly!, there is a lot more info available now. I can't believe the number of views some of the posts have received. My guess is that some innocent Googlers were looking for some information on their favorite hounds and got directed to Talks With Beagles. Ha! The jokes on them!
The comments are baffling, though. Why did some guy post a comment in September for a discussion from many months previously? And why doesn't it seem to have anything to do with the original article? The cyber moves in mysterious ways.
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If you think that naked swimming in high school was peculiar, you should check out Ivy League nude posture photos on the Wikipedia page. Between the 40s and 70s, incoming freshmen had nude pictures taken for a study of spinal anomalies and social hierarchy Most photos were sent to the Smithsonian but have since been destroyed (or so they say) and there is no digital record, thank the stars. Bootlegged images of a certain Miss Rodham would probably break the internet.
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I am surprised that the House of Representatives manages to get anything done. The term of office is only two years, so you have to figure they are spending at least six months planning for their reelection. And next year all 435 seats are up for grabs; has it always been like that? Theoretically, there could be all fresh new faces with no holdovers to show the new guys the ropes. I think it would be better if the elections were staggered, with half being held every year. The six year term of senators is staggered, with a third of the senate seats being voted on every two years, or something like that. It's confusing.
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Trump must have some kind of magical hold over his staffers; how else can the tenure of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions be explained? I read about that staff meeting where Trump called him an idiot and said he should resign. So Sessions submits a written resignation but White House staffers mutter secret words in Trump's ear and then Trump refuses to accept the resignation. WTF?, I ask. Besides demanding loyalty does Trump also expect a high level of masochism?
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Have either of you fellows seen The Fog of War? It's an Errol Morris documentary about Robert McNamara, straight from the horse's mouth and covers a lot of ground. Pretty good, I thought, and McNamara doesn't come out too badly. One thing I didn't know involved the Cuban Missile Crisis, and how I thought the embargo was to prevent nuclear warheads from entering Cuba. At a later date McNamara actually talked to Fidel and found out the nuclear warheads were already in Cuba. Jeez, that situation could have turned sideways in a heartbeat.
And what's the deal with that mysterious sonic weapon in Cuba, where the diplomats are going deaf and having other neurological problems? If you take Raoul Castro at his word, he doesn't know what's causing it and wants to help us figure it out, even going so far as to invite the FBI to come and investigate. It sounds like something the Russians might have come up with; they're not letting any grass grow under their feet and they always seem to come up with screwy weapons.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and make a weather prediction. Those two developing tropical depressions forming off the west coast of Africa won't amount to anything approaching hurricane strength but the weather pundits will nevertheless do a lot of gum flapping. By the way, just off the top of your heads, has any one location been hit by more than one hurricane in a single season? None spring to mind but it would be more than sad if it happens this year. Folks have had enough.
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