No font of wisdom

I think it's kind of cute that Uncle Ken considers Verdana to be an "exotic" typeface; perhaps the subtle design esthetics of typography are too elusive but I won't get into that right now, lest I bore the Institute any further.  It used to be a lot of work to prepare copy for printing but with the advent of desktop publishing any idiot with a computer and a printer can fancy themselves as a graphic designer, and many of them do.  One of the prices paid for progress is mediocrity.

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Speaking of Uncle Ken, it's very rare that he fails to make his daily posting and I hope that all is well in the ivory towers.  Mr. Beagles may miss a day once in a while due to computer glitches but I've gotten used to the clockwork postings of Uncle Ken and when he doesn't post it's a big deal to me, like the sun hasn't come up this morning.  Okay, that's taking it a bit too far but you know what I mean.

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I prefer to quote the Bible, probably because I am more familiar with it.

If you are talking about the King James version, some recent scholars have discovered the role of a French guy in it's translation from the original Hebrew and Greek.  Some folks consider this a big deal.  I'm not familiar with any of the modern versions of the Bible but I suspect they lack the majesty and poetry of the King James version.  It could still be a bunch of claptrap but it's a divinely inspired bunch of claptrap and I'm fine with that.  Plenty of writers have been divinely inspired and I enjoy reading them, even if I disagree with what they write.

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Am I the only one that thinks that the presidency has become a reality TV show, like Survivor?  Who can keep up with all the twists and turns?  This week we find out that Ty Cobb, one of the legal White house hotshots, is bailing out and then Rudy Giuliani goes on TV (Fox News, of course) and spills the beans about the payment to Stormy Daniels.  The pundits are astonished, almost to the point of being speechless but not quite.  Tongues continue to wag and the viewers are wondering what will happen in the next few episodes.  Here's a hint: Mueller just request seventy blank subpoenas in the Manafort case.   That will put a spike in the ratings!  And poor young Barron is being bullied in school because of his daddy; it might be time for home schooling.  Secret Service protection only goes so far, I guess.