Yesterday & Today

I’m sorry I missed it. Yesterday was the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, the protest of “taxation without representation.” These days it’s taxation, inflation and woeful representation.” Reenactment photo from Google Images:

Excerpts from a nypost.com editorial on America’s ceding of the energy independence achieved under President Trump: “…we’ve had to rely more on oil imports, to the tune of 8.3 million barrels a day last year, including 1 million from Persian Gulf producers… A tanker trip from Saudi Arabia to the US takes between 32 and 51 days, a trip that will itself burn about 2.5 million barrels of fuel — putting out some 58,000 pounds of CO2 emissions per hour…” Do we laugh or cry about the absurdities of those in power?

A win for the good guys in California, headline from foxnews.com: “Armed jewelry store worker sends would-be thieves running, stumbling in fear.” Great, but watch your back, sir.

From vajiramias.com: “Recently, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured never-before-seen detail of Cassiopeia A (Cas A)… remnant of a massive star that exploded some 340 years ago. “ Very cool.

My thanks to Mother Nature, who delayed the rain, enabling the floating book shop to put in 3/4 of a session, and to the gentleman who bought a DVD in Russian; and to Dave, who stopped to not only schmooze but who overcompensated me for The Footprints of God by Greg Iles.

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