Blogpost # M. 415 THE AGING TROPHY

The word “trophy, has its historical roots in past monuments to victory, and is contemporarily understood to signify an award given in recognition of a victory, or unique accomplishment. However, certain trophies appropriate to notable achievements are purely intrinsic and not exemplified by the traditional cup, plaque, or gold medal. We submit that this category of award, albeit unsung, is customarily representative of human victories, uncontrovertedly more esteemed than those represented by temporal, physical representations.

At this early stage of the present writing, we would like to plead “Guilty” to the understandable assertion of any reactive indictment that its context is conceivably self-serving (we are, relevantly, 89 years of age), but would assert as a mitigating defense that we esteem the subject, nevertheless, to be valuable and, conceivably of interest to the reader.

Our contextual trophy is implicitly awarded, in notable contrast to the plethora of flashy television advertisements for cosmetics and face-lifts, and silently, but reverentially, in recognition of the laudable achievement of a life of recognizable achievement of wisdom and mature perception. Unlike the ubiquitous, ephemeral desire for an eternal youthful appearance in the inevitable face of a developing maturity, evidenced by the discernible aging and diminution of physical capability, but, instead, by the personal accumulation of wisdom, from years of chosen enriching experience, supplemented by a lifetime of inquiry and saubrious reading.

The highly venerated empirical philosopher, John Locke, famously declared that Man’s knowledge is derived solely from his (personal) empirical experience. Accordingly, those members of the human species who have thus accumulated wisdom during their alloted years of perceptive and thoughtful life experience, have justly earned the salutary acknowledgement of a fulfilled life and are inarguably deservant of the thematic “trophy” of human achievement; despite their observably concommitant natural physical decline, Such achievement makes appropriate the thematically laudable “trophy” awardable for the successful attainment of a fulfilled life.

Notably, this contextually esteemed and invaluable trophy is not displayed in a glass-enclosed cabinet nor on a prominent shelf in the study; it is ineluctably discernible by rewarding interaction with the aged, often wrinkled and physically disabled, but wise, trophy winner.

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Blogpost # M. 414  THE ART OF THE “STEAL”

To appropriately conceptualize the “peace negotiations” between Putin’s Russia, which chose to attack Ukraine, and the victimized nation itself, we would recount the simplified but historically accurate, factual scenario. Putin’s Russia, which, by the exercise of illegal and unjustified aggression in 2014, outrageously stole two significant areas of Ukraine, Crimea and the Donbas, chose to imperialistically attack that sovereign State in February 2022; which illegal and immoral aggression constitutes the largest conflict in Europe since World War 2, resulting in massive citizen death and displacement and widespread international condemnation.

To responsibly furnish some contextual provenance, we would be remiss not to add to the scenario the simultaneous, publicly demonstrated “bromance” between the politically wily and deceptive former KGP head, Putin, and the haplessly neurotic and inept would-be dictator, Donald J. Trump.

Trump, consistent with his inveterate and systemic nature, had, in his customary “snake oil” demagoguery, asserted that, if elected, he would, in his first week, both lower consumer prices and make peace between Russia and Ukraine. His tactical representations, as customary, were equally shown to be demagogically false and tactically deceitful.

It is to eternally be recognized that it was Putin’s autocratic Russia that unprovokedly and immorally attacked the sovereign democratic nation of Ukraine. Notwithstanding any consideration of justice and logic, the present American (i.e., Trump’s) peace plan would reward the egregious Russian aggression by ceding the rest of Ukraine’s Donbas region to Russia and delimiting the size of the Ukrainian military as well as enjoining its membership in NATO. In the street lingo of our early childhood, we would loudly protest with something like, “Whattya kiddin’ me?!” Trump would reward Putin’s aggression by bizarrely gifting victory to the wrongdoer, without military cost. In a rationally just world, in contrast to the egocentrically neurotic reality of Donald J. Trump, such an offer of peace would be Kafka-esque or one proffered by the “Mad Hatter” of Lewis Carroll.

An offer of settlement by which a criminal is dystopically authorized to retain a debated portion of his robbery is inarguably beyond equitably appropriate reason, albeit within the distorted, empirical wisdom of the orange emperor and love-partner of despots. It is to be eternally borne in mind that it was Putin who egregiously invaded Ukraine and whose tragically obscene profit is to be summarily renounced and emphatically rejected.

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Blogpost # M. 413  ON RESILIENCE

The multitude of ubiquitous, undemocratic, unconstitutional, and authoritarian acts performed by the ill-fated Presidency of Donald J. Trump, exacerbated by the compliant policies of his menagerie of Cabinet Secretaries and a sycophantic Congress, factually underlie the fear of traditional American citizens for the very survival of their unique and precious Democratic Republic. The unprecedented, and hubristic actions of the authoritarian, power-hungry policies of the “Orange Hazmat” are as plentiful as they are systemically un -American. Unfettered by a catatonic Congress and an unprecedentedly partisan Supreme Court, such misgivings appear to be empirically justified.

As described and delineated in prior writings (and as universally observed), Trump’s executive miscreance has toxicly metastasized to all three branches of constitutionally authorized governance, hubristically destroying all uniformly accepted principles, legal and moral, in pursuit of his megalomaniac lust for power and perceived adoration. Not only have constitutional boundaries been trespassed, but, in addition, international commitments, political, economic, and environmental, have been egregiously disrespected. No less than the existential societal standard of “truth” has been denigrated by this sui generis malefactor, in tactical favor of his self-interested “alternate facts.” Rationally supportable fears concerning the altered character of the Nation have been increasing with every outrageous display of Trump’s miscreance and observable lack of moral compass; exacerbated by the realization that his is the most powerful and consequential office on Planet Earth.

Traditionally free American citizens peering into the frightening historical rear-view mirror see the sad decline of democracies, such as the Republic of Germany, (The Weimar Republic), Hungary, and sundry other Nations, transmogrified to a detestable authoritarian State. The fear is that our precious democracy will, in like manner, empirically suffer the “death by a thousand cuts,” the latter, daily perpetrated under the monomaniacal, authoritarian Trump rule.

However, a more positive and contemplative look at the analogical”rear view mirror” would contrastingly reveal that the unique phenomenon of a Nation, whose historical dedication of a “government, ” by and for the People, however attainable or in the dynamic stage of desired attainment, is a historically unique, “radical” phenomenon. The Nation’s aspirational progress towards its avowed salubrious goals has, admittedly, been slow, but nevertheless, demonstratively progressive.

It is empirically irrefutable that the “American Way of Life,” with its systemic dynamics of individualized liberty and aspirational progress towards the avowed goal of universal equality, is admittedly vulnerable, but, nevertheless, existentially prized and systemically accommodated. In our view, regardless of the temporal persistence of Trumpian anti-democratic toxicity, the empirical experience of the contextual desire for freedom will ultimately endure.

To hazard a mundane analogical reference, for the sake of thematic emphasis, in the face of such a serious contextual subject, we would ask: After the experience of a freshly baked, New York “everything bagel,” could you, at all, conceivably, find an ersatz, out-of-town, counterfeit replication acceptable?

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Blogpost # M. 412 THE BIG GRIFT

It is revealing to note that, despite Donald J. Trump’s election on the Republican ticket, he emphatically is not a Republican, MAGA or otherwise. Aside from the numerous empirical affirmations of such a declaration, several of which are included in this writing, we respectfully challenge the reader to recall any indication of political belief made by our deceitful grifting protagonist. The eternally debated issues, such as free trade, big government, finance, the national debt, economic policy, government programs of financial aid and medical assistance, domestic or foreign, and any of the sundry issues in eternal debate, Trump has used the now toothless Republican Party to garner and support the position of Chief Executive and facilitate his neurotic hubris. He is a serial grifter, not a political partisan.

Donald J. Trump is no more a politician than the “Right to Life” adherents are protectors of life; the latter, opposing government support to needy children, favoring the right to own and use guns, and supporting atavistic capital punishment. Trump, the gifted fraud and snake-oil salesman, is reductively aware of one singular, egocentric issue: his personal recognition as an admired “Winner.” Our judgmental declaration is supported by his observed policies and choices of action or inaction; the latter, singularly fueled by his egocentric and narcissistic insecurity and not by the Republican or any other extant political credo.

The extant Republican Party, unfortunately characterized by a remarkable number of populists, constituted the best tactical choice in the Nation’s two-party political system, for the contextual grifter. As we came to understand it, “Make America Great Again,” in its tactically intended context, dynamically translated to “Make Trump A Winner,” irrespective of the nature of its potential impact upon the Nation.

Trump’s primitively neurotic instincts were rewarded by a Republican Congress, catatonically compliant with the desires and policies of the Orange cultmaster; often compliantly dismissive of the wishes of their respective constituents. Such lemming-like communal obesience led to the loyal approval of Presidential policies and actions, eventuating in a notable decline in the American Nation’s institutional standing and moral authority and its historical standing as an avatar of liberty, democracy, and empathy for the disadvantaged.

The neurotic hubris of the errant President led to an unprecedented derogation of the Founders’ architecture of America’s” Separation of Powers,” and “Checks and Balances,” as evidenced by the despicable usurpation by the autocratic Trump of the authority constitutionally allocated to the three distinct branches of government.

Thus, authority solely exercisable by Congress, or requiring its mandatory approval, was autocratically usurped by the despotic Trump, who, in his hubristic self-delusion, proclaimed legislation, with regal authority, via his formidable thick-imaging, black “Sharpie.” These included ubiquitous “Executive Orders, without regard for the constitutional allocation of specified authority among the three branches of the Nation’s systemic architecture. Such errant authority included the devising of arbitrary tariffs, waging war on Venezuelan boats at sea, and dismissing federal civil service agencies, such as those administering the vital duties of National Education, Health, and Medical Research; such subjects legally within the purview of requisite Congressional approval.

The bizarre failure of Donald J. Trump to tactically and wisely choose to, initially (and easily) obtain the legally required and predictably assured consent,. by the gtrump-cultish Congress, mandated for certain prescribed Presidential acts, empirically reflects both his ignorant incapability, and thematically, his dystopian illusions of monarchical grandeur. His demonstrated instincts are systematically those of a skillful serial grifter and megalomaniac, and distinctly not those of a political partisan.

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Blogpost # M.412 TOWARD A MORE PERFECT UNION

Winston Churchill, whom we often find suitable to quote, said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, aside from all the other forms of government.” In this writing, we modestly suggest certain alterations to the fabric of our traditional American democracy, intended to smooth over its historically demonstrated wrinkles. Our emphasis is on achieving the avowed aspiration of our benevolent Founders, to create a polity “By and for the People.”

The contextual imperfections are diurnally revealed in the public media and thus presumably require no repetition. Additionally, for the dual purposes of brevity and clarity, we have chosen to categorize and briefly reference each category, arranged in the order of our perception of their empirical consequence:

(1) [Vetting of Presidential aspirants]: We have often suggested the thorough vetting of all politicians aspiring to be nominees for the Presidential election. We have noted the mandatory existence of prerequisite interviews for the most mondane of jobs, but bizarrely, no such vetting for aspiring nominees for the most consequential and historically impactful position on Earth. A non-partisan or bi-partisan review would pragmatically be essential to filter out inept, immorally neuritic, and inappropriate candidates like Donald J. Trump.

(2) [The Electoral College]: To assure the Nation’s avowed representational goal of “one man, one vote” (i.e., representative democracy), the anti-democratic institution known as the “Electoral College” must be abolished. Voters do not, as appears, vote for their choice of candidate for Chief Executive, but rather for delegates from their State, committed to the candidate. A majority of the 270 Electors is required to select the President. Each State has the same number of Electors as Congressional delegates, plus two Electors for the Senate. The record evinces a notably substantial number of instances of elected Presidents who, in fact, lost the popular (“one man, one vote”) standard of American election but were successful by the nuanced operation of the vote of the Electoral College.

(3) [Presidential Pardon and Executive Immunity]: Another existential feature of a legitimate Republican Democracy is the consistent and unvarying application of the foundational atavistiv principle that “No man is above the law.”

Despite America’s 18th-century repudiation of Monarchy in favor of Republican Democracy, the arbitrary right of pardon has been inappropriately and atavistically retained. The same, on its face and as applied, is inconsistent with the tenets of a Democratic Republic as analogous to a toxic vestigial organ that, by reason of its principled unfairness and notable record of blatant abuse, must be excised.

So too, should the recent aberrant decision of SCOTUS, granting immunity to a sitting President for all “Official” acts be overturned; the President as a citizen and no citizen is above the law; said correction is especially appropriate to the hubristic, Donald Trump.

(4) Presidential Vote Count] : The voter in Presidential elections does not effectively vote for the candidate of his choice. His vote is procedurally cast for an Elector designated for his State who supports the candidate. By reason of the allocation of Electors among the States, too many Presidents have been elected to the higher office who have, factually, lost the popular (democratic) vote. This historical procedure has evidently been inconsistent with, and violative of, the essence of democratic polity, ” one man, one vote

Our experience over the decades assures us that the above four adjustments will result in a more effective democratic system and democratic republic.

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Blogpost # M. 411 SAMUEL MORSE’S GOD

Our frequently enunciated concerns regarding the societally negative impact of the cell phone on human interaction, by some Joycean stream of consciousness, led us to the thoughts of the man who revolutionized the Nation by his invention of wireless communication; most particularly to his apocryphal statement: “What has God wrought?”

The latter exclamation is bizarrely representative of the traditional dark cloak historically thrown over the bright light of Man’s capacity for empirical reason, and which has eternally led to atavistic strife. It would seem that, without such pretentious expression of religious modesty, a genius like Samuel Morse, successful after an arduously long course of frustrating failure, would be aware that “he”, not his culturally created deity, is to be empirically credited as the inventor.

As we have often declared, Man’s deistic attribution of natural phenomena constituted the early etiology of religious belief. The “Sun God” who seemed to die in the Fall, was, by virtue of ritualistic observances concerning the “magically green” evergreen trees, resurrected in the Spring months, together with the deciduous trees and the bunny rabbits.

It would appear that for the greater portion of the world, in one fashion or another, the “sapient” product of Evolution, adamantly clings to one form or another of “faith” in the existence of a determinant “Higher Being.” Such an empirically non-enlightened mindset has been eternal, predating the commercial days of the “Silk Road” and enduring to the contemporary genius of “Silicon Valley.”

We will readily concede certain social and individual benefits of religious belief: the spiritual salve for the fear of inevitable death, the social identification and interactive cohesion of members of society, the inspiration, and the courage often needed in trying times; however, these, admittedly salubrious benefits of societal faith in the existence of a “higher being” have historically been a proximate cause of eternaL social, disparity, prejudice, injustice and ultimately, warfare. History has eternally revealed the nuanced inclination of religious believers to aggressively seek to impose their beliefs on others; the latter, empirically, an eternal source of human suffering and tragedy.

Moreover, the historic advancement and improvement of humanity have been inarguably hobbled by the urgent need for a dogmatic answer to empirical questions; the latter best accomplished by the process of rational trial and error and human expertise, in contrast to the divination of superstitious belief. Empathic treatment of human suffering is vitally important, humanistic, and societally appropriate, but not relevantly a proper or ethical source of information.

The Earth does, indeed, travel about the Sun, despite pre-Copernicus ( pre-heliocentric) religious edict that “Man is the center of the Universe.”.

Nor are questions which are beyond the ken of the evolved human brain, those concerning outer space and planetary origin, useful or proper vehicles of construed fictional belief; Man must modestly confess to the natural limitations of his cognition and the pragmatic realization that there are no available answers to every conceivable metaphysical question.

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Blogpost # M. 410 REMEMBERING NURENBERG

Numerous past writings have dealt with the blatant illegality and material harm caused by the prertnicious rule of Donald J. Trump, the latter, a demonstrated autocratic sociopath, motivated solely by an egocentric and hubristic perception of the extent of his executive authority.

The traditional American citizen has been shocked, bewildered, and intimidated by Donald Trump’s derogation of the constitutional and statutory law, as well as the societal moral compass. American citizens have been terrified by his hubristically neurotic disregard for truthful (empirical) fact, atavistic repudiation of societal propriety, and his evident lack of humanism and moral empathy; all in perceived service to his overblown neurotic aspiration for personal adulation and publicly acknowledged success.

As newly elected President, Trump appointed a Presidential Cabinet, characterized by scant qualifications for their designated governmental roles, but mandatedly evincing lemming-like, submissive loyalty to the abhorrently neurotic Chief Executive. The inappropriately bizarre nature of such dystopic appointments has resulted in domestic and international embarrassment and principled danger to the salutary navigation of our Ship of State, as lamented in copious past writings.

Regrettably, many of his policies, in addition to their adverse effect on our Nation’s economy, military security, and historically venerable standing, have been blatantly criminal. It is with reference to the illegal and criminally repulsive acts and the obedient functionaries that are thematically expressed in the present writing.

Among the many shamefully egregious policies, such as Trump’s Gestapo-like treatment of peaceful Hispanic Americans, his authoritarian prosecution of perceived political rivals, his illegal and un-American use of the military for domestic purposes, his deceitful self-enrichment, contrasted with his simultaneous elimination of food and medical relief to the poor (which we consider to be deceptively criminal) his many felonious convictions for insurrrection and treasonous behavior, we find most shockingly dystopic and criminal,. his policy of unauthorized and inhumane bombing of small, seagoing boats on the high seas, killing their cre upon the unproven supposition that they are conveying drugs from Venezuela to the United States. We are obliged to conclude that such action is an international crime, shamefully redolent of the crimes adjudicated at Nuremberg; the deliberate murder of the relevant crews. (see # M.409, “Murder at Sea”).

It is to be emphatically noted that the Nuremberg case established the humane, universal precedent that the alleged defense of “just following superior orders” was insufficient to avoid the well-deserved hanging of the guilty Nazi perpetrators. Thematically, such a casual and indifferent response is relevantly insufficient, as well as morally repugnant in established American jurisprudence.

Despite the unjust and democratically questionable ruling by SCOTUS to the effect that an America President is immune from prosecution for official actions, such a bizarre ruling, most notably, does not shield those individuals who actually perpetrated the egregious crimes against humanity, notably inclusive of the homicidal bombing of Venezuelan vessels at Defense Secretary Pete “Whack-a Mole” Hegseth’s military directive to again bomb the stricken ship to kill the floating survivors is worthy of Nurenberg reference.

America’s Code of Military Justice officially demands that servicemen do not obey patently illegal orders; a standard directive, ignored by the draft-dodging President Trump’s deluded prosecution of certain celebrated American war heroes for supporting such a legally established prohibition.

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Blogpost # M.409 MURDER AT SEA

There is a stark difference between the mystery novels, “whodunits,” of writers like Agatha Christie, ex., “Murder on the Orient Express,” and those regarding the dynamics of murder by the Trump Administration. In Agatha Christie’s stylized fiction, the killer is unknown but ultimately identified by characters such as the doughty Miss Marple or the elegant and suave Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.

In contrast, relative to the plethora of criminal acts of Donald Trump, the criminal perpetrator is never in doubt, and the ubiquitous acts of horrific crime, bizarrely televised to the viewing public. The felonious telephone call to the Georgia Secretary of State, illegally requesting an alteration of the State’s Pfresidential vote count, the unprecedented incitement and support of a violent and bloody insurrection against the Washington Capitol Building, the illegal and seditious purloining of top secret government documents for irresponsible storage in his country club’s accessible bathroom, the improper association with foreign despots, like Putin and Orban, as well as with unsavory personalities like Jeremy Epstein and with seditious leaders of White, Christian Militas, Trump’s revealed payments of “hush money” to evade public notice of his brisk business with prostitutes. The publicly televised revelation of these and other morally reprehensible acts makes the sensitive citizen hesitant to imagine the full dumpster of Trump miscreance, “off camera.”

Of all of Trump’s malevolent, heinous, and calamitous acts, displayed on public television, his direction of the bombing of small sea-going vessels, killing their crews, is the most dramatic, and conceivably, the most demonstrative of the extent of his pathologically monarchical hubris. The deadly bombings have been condemned by legal experts as a war crime and plain murder. Notably, Trump’s alcoholic and incompetent Secretary of Defense ordered the “killing of everyone on board.”

There would appear to be scant need for the investigative services of a Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot, since the psychopathic miscreant is once more publicly identified and empirically recognizable.

It is our contemplative assumption that the leading manufacturers of cookware products remain anxious to ascertain the chemical composition of the Teflon-like substance that ubiquitously prevents overdue, appropriate repercussions for Trump’s criminal and homicidal malignity.

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Blogpost # M.408 THE METAPHYSICAL PANACEA (Redux)

We have chosen to assume that almost nine decades of life (the maturer years being ubiquitously dedicated to serious contemplation) buttressed by the foregoing relevant citation of recognized wise men, will attenuate the reader’s predictable reaction to the present offering as being reductively hubristic. After having, to date, published slightly short of 1,500 blogs, we will optimistically assume that a relevant, metaphysical statement would be deemed acceptable. Our perpetual theme, and, ultimately, that of the present writing, is Man’s aspiration for a fulfilled life.

For many, the attainment of a “successful” life is founded on the accumulation of conspicuous wealth and a privileged lifestyle; for others, it is recognized accomplishment, viz., the development of a proven cure for a disease or, perhaps, the creation of a utilitarian and highly profitable mathematical formula; for yet others, like ourselves, “fulfillment” is attained by the ultimate acquisition of a mature, rational understanding of the nuanced course of one’s life..

Over the course of modern history, demagogues have suggested dogmatic transmogrifications of existing political-economic systems or the installation of laudable rulers as the sine qua non for the societal attainment of an improved and desirable life. Wiser commentators have maintained that it is not the hapless alteration of the extant polity or ruler, but rather the personal acquisition of citizen wisdom that ultimately leads to self-betterment, and ultimately, to appropriate rule. In the sage words of our oft-quoted savant, Winston Churchill: “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.”

Wise commentators have eternally articulated the principle that it is not the radical alteration of the polity, nor the installation of a proposed, lauded ruler that provides good rule and societal fulfillment, but rather the societal wisdom and discernment of the citizenry that fundamentally provides successful rule. The aspiration for good governance is implemented by the actions of a wise and discerning society in its selection of a suitable leader. The eternal metaphysical basis of good governance is the beneficial existence of a wise and informed citizenry.’

The adequate development of a natural, utilitarian, and referable self-image appears to be the metaphysical sine qua non of healthy and recognizably fulfilled life and of the useful citizen. It would appear that such accomplishment is developed from the earliest perceived responses and discriminating observations of others, notably, members of one’s young peer group, with whom they daily interact. This dynamic is the principal cause of our relentless opposition to the smartphone as the alternative to natural human interaction; its inadequacies reportedly have significantly increased the mental health problems of a large population of its immature users. Other “mindless” digital facilities have augmented the deleterious illnesses and social isolation of today’s youth.

The media has reported on students’ emotional isolation and the clinical aftermath of the impactful loss of natural, spontaneous interaction. Schoolteachers and administrators suffer unprecedented setbacks in the quality of learning of American students, as well as the stated, unprecedented growth of anxiety and depression in the young. Such impairment has its sequelae in later life and in the stultified dynamics of human society.

The metaphysical panacea for the political ills of society and its disgruntled citizenry is obtained, not by demagoguery or theory, but in empirical practice. It all begins with the citizen’s beneficial desire to understand himself and the consequent development of a referable self-image calling for right action.

Analogous to the instruction of a treating physician, the prescription of appropriate and regular doses of good literature, the fine arts, the conduct of intelligent discourse, and the exercise of an open and unprejudiced mind, constitute the eternal prescription for the efficient route to a rewarding life, a discerning citizen, and, thematically, good governance.

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Blogpost # 407: AN AMERICAN THANKSGIVING

This year’s Thanksgiving Dinner was notably “Blog-worthy.” Unlike the fictionalized Hallmark Card or “pictorial calendar version of the apocryphal, “First Thanksgiving Dinner ( see” M.405, “Turkey, Cranberry and Cognitive Dissonance”), it was singularly meaningful and thus was memorable, as well as a savoury experience. As declared in the cited writing, we have much to be thankful for as Americans.

Seated at the holiday dinner table, in addition to immediate family, were six American diners, of Persian extraction, related to us by the marriage to our son-in-law, a neurologic academic and research scientist to his Persian -American wife and licensed physician, her father, a Persian-American physician, and mother, a retired University lecturer, two recently arrived Pakistani physicians, husband and wife, awaiting American certification, our Step-Son’s wife, a Persian- American physician, in-laws, a Persian-American physician, his wife, a retired University professor; a close family friend, a the latter, a computer-assisted stock investor, as well as the author of a hard-covered Persian cookbook, an American born and educated Doctor of Education and Doctor of Nursing, partly retired from her long standing position as Vice-Dean of the Columbia UIniversity School of Nursing, and we, as American born retirees with 50 years of New York law practice.

The conversation throughout the holiday eating orgy was spontaneous, friendly, and varied, relative to such esoteric subjects as ethnic cuisine, family, and notable personal experiences. The thematic event may fittingly ranging be described as spontaneous, effusive, and warmly intimate, ranging from the prolix logistics of the admission of foreign-born physicians to American practice, nuanced cuisine, personal experiences, and the experience of owning domestic cats. In sum, we found this year’s Thanksgiving Dinner experience, warm and significantly memorable.

We continue to be eternally unable to locate Trump’s caravans of criminals, drug dealers, and prostitutes” invading our Nation as ubiquitously declared by our adjudicated felonious President. We have given up the propagandistic and fallacious search for quite some time.

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