Happy Klansmen Dancing a Jig in Hell

Today's local newspaper, Charleston's Post and Courier, included an AP article about a rapper in New York, Remy Ma, who shot her friend in the stomach. The shot was an accident; the gun was displayed as a warning...like a schoolyard taunt gone bad.

Bill Cosby and Alvin Poussaint have written an illuminating book about the tragedy of young black people killing each other...Come On People: on the path from victims to victors.

Here are two statistics taken from the book..."Homicide is the number one cause of death for black men between fifteen and twenty-nine years of age...Ninety-four percent of all black people who are murdered are murdered by other black people" (pages 8,9).

The Ku Klux Klansmen burning in Hell must be dancing happily around their flaming crosses.

Put Down That Pork Chop and Grab an Apple

No Rollin' Boogie - EQT

Put Your Ear to the Ground and Hear that Train Rolling

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Give me little kiss, Honey

Being ever interested in our beginnings as beings peopling the planet. I was struck by this article about Honey's uses as medicine.

This article is from Interesting Thing of the Day

Like honey probably being our first alcholic drink, predating the milk wine of the herders, now we find Honey is healthy inside and outside the body as an antiseptic.

Note: there is a quiet crisis with Bees. A new disease is causing collapse of hive colonies. How this affects Bees in the long run is debatable, but Bees are one of those links in the ecosystem that hold the whole food chain together.

National Honey Board