I had to take down the original post I did on this event. I had foolishly linked it to NextDoor, which masquerades as a local source for pictures of bears in our yards and warnings of traffic jams. I had mentioned there that I could not locate either the shooter or one of the alleged victims in any public people source, like TruePeopleSearch or Geni. I then wrote the post and linked it there, inviting anyone curious to join us in our discussion, warning them to be civil.

I awoke to the scene pictured on the left, which is a spray can used for BBQ that I keep on a rolling rack on the deck. It had been taken from there, and the cap removed, the can upright, and a pine cone and birdseed nut in between. Since it was done in a manner that had everything in line and upright, it was not a bear or raccoon or fox, our normal visitors. It was a human who did this for us. It was none too subtle, and indeed carried a message, that by suggesting the shooting event was faked, that I was a nut, that I am not rational.

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We had something I found interesting going in a post I had to take down due to emergence of hatefulness, an ugly aspect of the ongoing mass shooting sprees, all fake. I’ll come back to it.

Tyrone mentioned that one team, the Cleveland Indians/Guardians, hold the futility record, not having won a World Series since 1948, 77 years. I looked a bit further and found that there are a few teams who had not made WS appearances (win or lose) for long stretches of time, like Pittsburgh, Seattle, Oakland, Minnesota, Colorado and Cincinnati, and they shared one thing in common: small TV markets.

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This is a reminiscence, one that from childhood on affected my outlook on life. I am not unique in this regard, nor prescient, but merely aware of that fact that two memories of childhood are still with me in my advanced age. Others have similar experiences. Please feel free to recount them here.

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Mike Wallach, proprietor of The Viral Delusion, runs a nice website and I am happy to send along a few bucks each month. However, back in July he ran a video, The Viral Delusion Episode Three: Monkey Business: Polio, Measles And How It All Began,  and right away, just a couple of minutes into it, I was looking up at the nose hairs of Tom Cowan and Andrew Kaufman. The latter for sure I do not trust, as someone pointed out to me long ago that Edward Snowden, then said to be quarantined in an airport in Moscow, and Mr. Kaufman bore a striking resemblance to one another.

No way, I thought, but decided to expend the effort to do the comparisons anyway. For newbies, my underlying criteria is based on the premise that our heads form their final for-life shape in our late teens and early 20s, and that as a result, the distance between our eye pupils can be used as a constant throughout our lives. That in mind, if I align eye pupils at a common distance, I can compare two faces to find differences and similarities.

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Below is a rather long excerpt from the book Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, published in 2000 and written by the late Kary Mullis. He won a Nobel Prize for his work on what became known as the polymer chain reaction process, or “PCR”. I intended yesterday as I wrote about world population to start with this, but quickly realized I was trying to ride a horse in two directions at once. Only politicians can pull that off. 

I will comment after:

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Please keep in mind as you read this that I am forced to use the WordPress Gutenberg editing format, and is is clunky and basically unworkable. Sometimes after I have published a piece I am offered the “Classic” format, and from there I can fix any oddball stuff that GBerg forces on me.
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On Wednesday, September 10, 2025, there was a shooting at Evergreen High School, located in Evergreen, Colorado. We live but a few miles from there. The event, as far as I can discern, is fake, and I’ll go into detail, but first, here is the official recounting from respectable journalists (trained not to think in some of our finest schools):

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I met this man but once, maybe forty years ago, but once was enough. He and I sat next to each other at a fancy luncheon in Billings, Montana. At that time I was employed by a woman who was, by means of inheritance, very wealthy, so it was not unusual that I would be seated beside the president of a local bank. 

First, Jim was a nice man. At the time I met him he was probably early 50s, as he died in 2025 at age 93. That would make him perhaps 54 at the time, me 35. He was well liked in the community, and if anyone not knowing him takes time to read his obit, he was well loved by kids, grandkids, and was married to the same woman for 72 years. He was a good man and had a life well-lived. 

But enough about that. God rest his soul. I only sat next to him for a couple of hours one day forty years ago, and it stuck with me. Why? Perhaps out of the blue, perhaps for some unremembered reason of passing conversation, Jim took time to explain to me war bonds that were issued during World War II. He said, to my young and curious ears, that the money they raised from those bonds was not used to pay for the war. That was just the selling point to get the public to go along. 

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I was driving down highway 285 into Denver (Lakewood) last week and came across a man carrying a cross. As I was going 70mph, I did not take time to note his dress or hair style nor stop for a photo. The cross was large, taller than him, and as a result rested on wheels. This man’s commitment goes only so far, it appears.  

There is no photo of the man easily available, and so I grabbed the photo shown above, said to be of Roy Scott and Moab (Utah) pastor Rick Pacheco. Scott has apparently vowed to take his cross coast to coast. I do not know if he is the man I saw on 285, as there have been others around the country doing the same thing. 

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I get up each morning (at a ridiculous hour) and settle in with coffee and a well-lit easy chair and read. That time is my favorite time of day. Right now I have several books going, and where once I would try to work my way through them as if they were assigned reading, I now allow them to penetrate the cranium and stop whenever I’ve had enough, or as a famous Far Side cartoon once had a student asking a teacher: “May I be excused? My brain is full.” (In that cartoon, Gary Larson drew the kid with an unusually small head compared to the kids around him.)

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