Ahhhhh...The 1st Signs of Spring

The crotch rocket bikers have returned!


(They beat my first robin sighting of the season by one day.)

Props To Moo!

I am a big fan of handing out praise and today I am so impressed with how the online printer Moo.com handled a messed up order.

In a world of screwed up customer service departments (Nissan and Comcast), it is nice to know places that value a customer's time and money like Moo.com are still out there.

Anyone who has spent hours dealing with a company's 800 numbers multiple layers of prompts know too well what I am talking about here.

So if you are looking for a fantastic group that prints on paper from sustainable forests, please consider Moo.com.

Everybody Moo!!!!

Re-Vision: Tommy Back In The Studio

"In the future everyone will be immune to reality."


-Tommy

Thoughts on War: A Literary Snapshot

We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.

"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.

"But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."

"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

History: Gustave Gilbert, a German-speaking intelligence officer and psychologist who was granted free access by the Allies to all the prisoners held in the Nuremberg jail. Gilbert kept a journal of his observations of the proceedings and his conversations with the prisoners, which he later published in the book Nuremberg Diary. The quote offered above was part of a conversation Gilbert held with a dejected Hermann Goering in his cell on the evening of 18 April 1946, as the trials were halted for a three-day Easter recess.

History reads us like a book. - Tommy

Reflection

This toad is so tiny and yet so wonderful that it can stop your day.
Please consider your footprint on this planet (and adjust your sails.)