Felix Dies Porci Terrae
>>Happy Groundhog's Day

Oh, see, Billy, see her go,
Forty Buses in a row!
Oh, no, Billy, them is trucks.
What is in them?
Cars and ducks.

O, si vile, si ergo,
Fortibus es inero!
O nobile, demis trux.
Vadis indem?
Causem dux.
Isabili, heres agofortibus in eronoces mari Thebi truxvatis enim pax a dux?
O sibile, si ergo.Fortibus es in ero.O nobili, deis trux!Vates enim? causa an dux!
Si senor, der dagoForti loris inaroDemant loris, demam truxFulla cowsan ensan dux

Who are these people? Twins or relatives?

Glenn Close
Sigourney Weaver
Meryl Streep
Harvey Keitel
Robert DeNiro
Al Pacino
Kevin Bacon
Kurt Russell
Patrick Swayze
David Keith
Denzel Washington
Cuba Gooding jr.
Blair Underwood
Roddy McDowall
Malcom McDowell
Andie MacDowell

Colorado Rockies: Not too bad!

Rocktober stats added.

Columbus Day Genocide

Every year on Columbus Day we hear of the protests and the parades marking Christopher Columbus. I grew up with Columbus as a hero. But then again George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and others have lost their heroism as well. When I googled Columbus Genocide to find out just what the controversy was all about, beleive me: there were very few postings that were even readable. They were rants and raves without any direct facts at all, there were pieces that tried to sound scholarly but made no sense. Even Wikipedia seemed to have trouble when it came to talking about the "controversy." One main source, it seems, for the genocide accusations, came from none other than Ward Churchill, who has been permanently fired from the University of Colorado for plagarism and lack of scholarly ways. In other words, he is not a credible source.

There is indeed sufficient evidence against Columbus that he treated the natives of Hispaniola like cattle, and indeed that population was nearly wiped out. The only reasonable posting I found was from cartoonist Mikhaela B. Reid in his Boiling Point blog. That is from 2002, but it holds up well. In other words, nothing has changed.

Okay, I guess all our holidays for heroes are outmoded (except perhaps Easter and Christmas, both for the same Palestinian Savior). Should we do away with Martin Luther King day, Caesar Chavez day, and the like? Isn't Labor Day celebrated for Unions? Columbus Day is celebrated on October 12 because it is the day he arrived in the New World, October 12, 1492. It has nothing to do with his birthday or etc. The celebration of the day has brought out the anti-Columbus point of view as well, so maybe we should celebrate the holiday, as others have suggested, as a point of change for all of us. It comes at a time of year when harvest festivals occur, when we are preparing for the Winter that will lead to Spring. What should we name our new holiday?

This visitor to our front window is a white-lined sphinx moth, one of the largest flying insects in some deserts. It is also known as a hummingbird moth because it hovers and feeds on nectar like a hummingbird.

Traffic Laws Have Changed

The first traffic law I was aware of that had changed over the years was U-TURNS. It used to be that you couldn't make a U-Turn unless it was posted that you could or you were in the middle of nowhere and no traffic was around. Now you just have to be careful.

I have talked earlier about the Speed Limit: the de facto speed limit is 10 miles above the posted limit.

If you were to follow at 1 car length per 10 miles of speed like you used to, or even at the 3-second rule, you will probably get honked out of existence. (I don't care, I still do.)

Apparently, the blind spot that used to exist is gone. This law of human anatomy has been repealed. That is what it seems like when you watch people in the lanes around you.