Jesse's Blog: December History

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GR, TH, W

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A day by day review of world events, dk H Channel Book

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wordplay, factoids, linguistic and conceptual associations, opposites and contrasts, anything theological, spiritual, or religious (say, god, God, or G-D); a smattering of numerology (1931), puns, acronyms, anagrams, homonyms, alliteration, assonance, and of course, rhymes!

December 1

GR: 1. Somers ain't Summers, 2. Two types of wailing sirens in Israel: steady for mourning, warbling for attack, TH: 3. Lombard League, cool Jay, 4. Sasha and the pasha, 5. torching Portugal, the bane of Spain, Iberian fear, famished Spanish, queasy Portuguese, 6. Rutherford B. Hayes, in a haze, 7. Benny Goodman and The Bee Gees, 8. the skinny on Rex Stout, 9. chinese chins, christian chins, chinnychin chins, 10. Veracruz, what has become of you?, 11. emancipation and e-woman-cipation, too, 12. I gave Eva my fave slave, Dave - he's a knave, but she'll rave, 13. a grave in the waves, 14. OK corral and coral bleaching, 15. copulating cops, and the cinema omnia pathe (world's first movie theater, Paris), 16. babies and arms control, 17. missiles and mistle-toe, theory of everything, 18. Fidel Alejandro Castro Run, his full name (FACt); AFC, the annual fund campaign, 19. the "chunnel" is 132 feet below the English Channel, (beneath the surface, or beneath the floor?), (surface:) Chunnel is 246 feet below sea level at its deepest; (the deepest point in the channel is 574 feet), ?? I'm confused!.., it's not on/below the bottom?, huh?, (the 2 sections meet beneath the seabed this date in 1990), 20. Woody Woodpecker, Woody toy story, Woody Harrelson, and Woody Allen, wood E - would he?, 21. prior to Richard Pryor, 22. egregious segregation and gregarious Greg!, 22. listening to Grieg, drunk on grog, W: 23. pleonasm and Pope Leo, 24. the black knight (skin and armor) attacks at night, 25. the Philippine Dynasty was Philip I, II, and III (of Spain and Portugal, not the islands), 26. Rosh Hashanah, hashish, assassins, and the Republic of Spanish Haiti, 27. Vote for Pedro! (emperor of Brazil), 28. Jail doctor, JL MD, and Juan Lavalle, Manuel Dorrego (Argentine Decembrist revolution), general's coup vs. governor, g v. g, 29. SOTU, state of the union, and sounds of the universe (Depeche Mode album), 30. Decembrists and Septembrists, (and all the other months, -isms), 31. Buenos Aires Metro, bam!, 32. grease, concrete, and turkey dinner, 33. G-D, a Great Day, for Romania, 34. Danish pastry (danish), 35. Greenland and Iceland, and the Iceland skating rink (now Sports Basement, in Berkeley), 36. Molly the mop (member of parliament), 37. Heroic Hirohito and heroin heroine and a row, 38. Our Lady of the Angels School fire (92 children in hell), 39. Patrice Lumumba's mumbo-jumbo, 40. sinking into the Sankuru river, 41. World AIDS Day (wad, ha), 42. Benjamin, Benedict, Benazir, Benji, and Benito, 43. Corazon Aquino (her heart no esta aqui, not here), 44. Ranvir Sena and John Cena, 45. Vicente Fox (666, like xxx) Quesada (cheesed?), 46. Haribo (hairdo!) and Arecibo (Puerto Rican telescope collapsed, 2020).

December 2

GR: 1. Marquis de Sade, of "sadism" fame, spent 28 years in prison and died (1814) from asthma in an insane asylum, 2. pulmonary congestion is so p.c., TH: 3. Enron and ronin, 4. Redd Fox and Prince of Orange and Huangdi (Yellow emperor) and Adolph Green and Vida Blue (poor old blue!) and Arlene Violet (or Violet Beauregarde) and Lewis Black and Gray Davis and Betty White, and, of course, Pink (Alecia Beth Moore Hart), and Norman H. Purple, (there's a ton of Greens, but only one Purple), 5. Rick Savage and Ron Kind, 6. NAFTA and the earl of Shaftesbury, 7. SLB and SLC and STC and XTC, 8. Salt Lake City and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sarah Lawrence College (bonkers in Yonkers! NY), and Space Transport Corporation (nano-satellites??), 9. (Puyi), Zxuan Tong (sp?), becomes China's last emperor (age 2, 1908), 10. Dr. Joseph Bell (said to be the model for ACD's Sherlock Holmes), and Alexander Graham Bell, and the belle of the ball, 11. Georges Seurat (gorgeous sir, rot), 12. Zhukov, killer of victims, 13. Sir John Barbirolli and ravioli, 14. Hagar the horrible and Alexander Haig, 15. Julie Harris in Paris, 16. christian life communities, Cathy Lee Crosby and Bill Cosby, 17. Tracy Austin in Boston, 18. Bill the bull, and the evil boll weevil, W: 19. I couldn't ascertain if the Lyon zoo (it has 66 species) has lions, but Lyon is named after Lugdunum, not lions, 20. leaping lizards! the University of Leipzig! (to red and blue, we'll all be true...go cats, get 'em cats...), 21. synagogues, criminal law, vice presidents, and forked tongues, 22. tourists, touro, and taurine, 23. male cat, emperor, m-prr, 24. MD, manifest destiny, curious if it cured anything, 25. Alabama, bam! North Carolina, no car! Georgia, orgy!, 26. free to be me, you do you, 27. Charles Dickens on a cd (audiobook), 28. Brest-Litovsk, and little breasts, 29. armistice, and an arm rest, 30. bars in Bari, Barsi, Barshi, Barstow, Barcelona, Barsinghausen, 31. a riot? Wyatt doesn't buy it, 32. eliminate: exploitation, prostitution, human-trafficking, slavery, 33. suppress? like it's an urge?, 34. dad, in dishonor and disrepute, 35. cashmere from Kashmir, 36. Mike Mansfield and Jayne Mansfield, 37. wow, Lao, 38. Pathet Lao means Lao Nation, not pathetic, 39. (1989 Malay peace agreement) Hat Yai has nothing to do with hats (although probably something to do with roles), 40. Meds from Medellin!, 41. endeavoring to repair Hubble, (Edwin died in 1953), 42. wow, words of war: warlock, warm, ward, wart, warbler, 43. Anwar Sadat, warren commission, Elizabeth Warren, Raphael Warnock!, 44. I'm God. So are you. But I'm not claiming to have all the answers. "If you meet the Buddha, kill him" -a quote from Buddhist sage, Lin Chi, who was telling a monk, basically, those who think they've found all the answers in any religion need to start questioning (says the google interpretation), 43. Good gawd, God, get your GED! (lol), 44. gadzooks! a giddy God doesn't have GUD (genital ulcer disease), 45. Omniscience: scientific omniscience is the gold standard, but it's only a sphere of the greater Absolute omniscience, like what's in people's heads, (neither of which are possible for a mere man, I'll go out on a limb and dare to say), but I could be wrong. I mean, If all lin all is all we are, then (simply?) Knowing Thyself confers omniscience.

46. Google says, according to a study by Google Books (as of 2/16/'22), there have been 129,864,880 books published since 1440 (when Gutenberg invented the printing press). Bon Apetit! Over a hundred years, say, that's 1,298,648.8 books a year. Which is 3,557.94 books a day. Let's round up to 3600. I'm guessing the number of new books/year is rising. Good luck with your speed reading, Mr. Jim Kwik. Maybe (a) computer(s) could do it, though. So you see why God needs to be corporate?? Then again, maybe God is writing the next 580 years of books, in his head (lol). There's lots of repetition, of course, too. Maybe omniscience isn't quite so vast. But just to finish the calculation, 3600 books a day, (give yourself 8 hours sleep), is 225 books an hour x 16 hours. Ah hour is 60 minutes, is 360 seconds. 225 books in 360 seconds is 0.625 books per second. Or 1.6s/book. Let's be precise, and not round up. 3558 books a day. In 16 hours/day. 222 books/hour. How much time per book? 1.62s / book! Ha. What fun. I like math. Let's say 2s/book, for all you slowpokes. How much longer than 16 hours a day for a hundred years would THAT be? Oh, nevermind. And, of course, some books are bigger than others. Some books are harder to read than others. Or should I say, easier. And there's other languages. Thank God for kids' books. Joy! 222books/hour x 16 hours/day x 365 days/year x 100 years yields: 129,648,000 (off by 216,880). Computers don't need sleep, I think. So 130 million books can be read, my computer friends, at a rate of 200 books per hour (don't crash, lol), (in other words, 4800 books/day, or 33,600/week) in 27,084 days, which is 74.2 years. Let's say 75 years. Happy processing. That's my quantitative reverie on the book-larnin' sphere of omniscience. :-)

December 3

GR: 1. apoplectic with rage is different from having a stroke (past meaning of apoplexy), TH: 2. vampire drinks "Cola" (di Rienzi); Cola was declared a heretic by the Pope, 3. dauphin of France, dolphins and ants, the purpose of a porpoise, (same as humans, who are also just animals), 4. eat, fuck, and die, (just like a fly), 5. lord of lies, lord of flies, lord of guys, lord of size, lord of wise, 6. nasty gymnasts, bird nests, and amnesty, 7. light bulbs and blubber, 8. IBM, you BM, we all BM, (even Marlon Brando), 9. Mary Pickford and Clifford Pickover, 10. Global commonwealth, to make wealth common, 11. Athens aftermath, 12. communist gorillas, 13. I-P War, Indo-Pakistani, and internet providers, 14. IP and IBM, 15. Bhopal pals, 16. methyl isocyanate is not your friend, (8k xx, 600k injured), 17. BSA (now, just called 'Scouting'), and BSE (mad cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy), 18. Dean Kamen eats common ramen, spends $100 million on SHT (Segway human transporter), 19. Kamen rhymes with K-men (or Neil Gaiman, game 'n), 20. Samuel Crompton, straight outta Compton, 21. 007, double O seven, and Ozzie Osbourne, 22. the game of life, losing your life, 23. god, winning the game of death, 24. is life a zero-sum game, like chess, so for "good" is for "evil", depending what side you're on?, 25. God, are you the devil? His name is I AM, 26. if there's a pope and antipope, a christ and antichrist, is there a you and antiyou? (especially for a buddhist with no-self!?), 27. game of life: a. Conway's, b. a book, and c. a Milton Bradley game (and also the title of a tv show, movie, song, album, etc.), 28. is there a god and antigod? that would be the devil, no?, 29. is god the antidevil? good question!, 30. God and Jean-Luc Godard, 31. Maria Callas and mind control, 32. Ferlin Husky and the dog breed (like human breeds!), W: 33. Stars and Stripes, definitely not nazi, 34. armistice, and ice, missed (in hell), 35. mangos, mangroves, and Marengo, 36. U be illin' (21 is Illinois), 37. Tampere ain't Tampa, 38. vampire emperor of Tampere, 39. Duquesne and Dufresne, 40. Holy Ghost and The Matrix, 41. Himalia ain't in the Himalayas (it's off Jupiter), 42. those jovial Jovians, 43. Julie in juvie, 44. buryin' Aryans, 45. Aryans on Darien, 46. flexing musical muscles, 47. I ride camels a lot, like JFK, 48. JFK? just effing kidding, 49. Spantax ("safety deficits") and spandex, 50. stupid cupid? Jupiter is stupider!, 51. dying of dioxin poisoning, 52. oh God, Mogadishu, 53. NASDA ain't NASDAQ.

December 4

GR: 1. killer smog in 1952 England (and Smaug, the dragon!), 2. John Rock, (co-inventor of the birth control pill), I am a rock I am an island; who shot JR?, TH: 3. sole ruler, and measuring your shoe size!, 4. G-D, grave diggers are plotting against me!, (or is it Pam?), 5. names have power, Teshara (as earth, heart, hater; shat ear, are shat, he's a rat, he a star, the sara, ah tears), 6. la raza, the rasa (hinduism), he rasta, 7. pope deposed by emperor!, 8. Nicholas Breakspear and William Shakespeare, 9. Treaty of Paris, tops!, 10. Bottom? bought 'em, 11. jews in Anjou, 12. Damen avenue, Darien Way, demon Damien, le monde on Monday, 13. Max Baer jr. and Bayer, 14. Dei by day, knight by night, 15. suttee is nutty, 16. tobacco, to back O, 17. Kossak and Filipowicz, don't be flip with cossacks, 18. emperor deposed, and taking a deposition, 19. Thomas Carlyle and TC Boyle, 20. Lillian Russell and Russell Crowe, 21. Edith Cavell and the European Community, 22. bellbottoms in Belgium, 23. Kandinsky in the sky, 24. Frank is Frankish but Francisco Franco was Spanish (!), 25. Samuel Butler and black sheep, 26. Dietrich's trick of dying, W: 27. not asian, not Australian, but Austrasian, 28. Salem ain't Jerusalem, 29. crickets don't play cricket, 30. council of Trent Reznor, 31. Berkeley CA ain't Berkeley Hundred (A Virginia colony, later the location, during the civil war, of the first "taps" on bugle), 32. Scanion canyon, scallions and onions, 33. (Being) John Malkovich and (more cowbell!) Christopher Walken, 34. Hanukkah in Ithaca.

December 5

GR: 1. Mozart died a pauper (age 35) of malnutrition, overwork, and kidney disease, 2. Charlie Brown was based on a friend of Charles Schulz, who was inept at sports and generally unlucky (and who was in fact named Charlie Brown), 3. "Shoeless" Joe Jackson said "I'm going to meet the greatest umpire of them all", TH: 4: "the great master of all scouts", 5. "lord of lords, king of kings", one ring to rule them all, 6. God of gods, God of deities; All? ah!, 7. Jeezus effing Kryst, JFK and Jose Carreras, James Christie, 8. Joan Didion, Juris Doctor, deejay, 9. "little" Richard, on the peacock label, was a big dick, like Microsoft, 10. Strom Thurmond wasn't a saint, 11. Walt Disney and WD-40, 12. Philip K. Wrigley and Philip K. Dick, 13. bellicose jello? John, lord Jellicoe and jellyfish, and Wilco, 14. Christopher, Christina, Chris Tucker, and Christ, 15. Thanks, Tom Hanks! tanks a bunch, 16. papal bulls and Niger and Winnie the Pooh, 17. the Pope orders that cats belonging to convicted (scheduled to be burned) witches also be burned, 18. a bad day for jews, witches, huguenots, 19. auction house, ha, 20. Phi Beta Kappa, we're number 1!, (the first american college greek-letter fraternity, 1776), (gamma phi beta was the first sorority, 1882), 21. treason and tree sin, 22. the inventor of the Gatling gun was a doctor, 23. Albert Einstein and Sergei Eisenstein, 24. diplomas, dipsomania, diplomats, and foreign affairs, 25. foreign faires, and political parties, 26. David Gans and the afghans, 27. 21 repeals 18 (amendments), and temperance, prohibition, bootlegging, organized crime, expense, and thirst, W: 28. Cicero's sister from Sicily, 29. naming my door, Isidor, my floor Florence, my chair Sinatra, etc., 30. Golden Horde and gold for whores, 31. Val Kilmer's paradise (Valparaiso), 32. ants in Antarctica, abyss in Abyssinia, 33. a lab in Alabama, a lass in Alaska, the air in Arizona, ark in Arkansas, color in Colorado, connection in Connecticut, awareness in Delaware, id in Idaho, illness in Illinois, Indians in Indiana, cans in Kansas, (George in Georgia, Kent in Kentucky, Louis and Anna in Louisiana, Mary in Maryland, Minnie in Minnesota), mainly in Maine, never in Nevada, Mass in Massachusetts, Oklahoma is okay, ore in Oregon, pencil in Pennsylvania, the roads in Rhode Island, tennis in Tennessee, you in Utah, vermin in Vermont, virgin in Virginia, washed in Washington, in and out in Iowa, sex in Texas, the reason why in Wyoming!, 34. Ireland and Oregon and Bangladesh, and Spain, Germany, Netherlands, 35. caliphates in Cali Colombia and California, 36. Christine and Christ, teen, 37. Ryan from Orion.

December 6

GR: 1. Jefferson Davis, j.d. (died age 81, of a cold + malaria), TH: 2. Mughals are Mongols ain't Hmong, and Mongolia ain't Monongah WV, 3. dancing the Khan-con, 4. Quit being God in Quito, Ecuador, 5. Johann Kepler, j/k, 6. transit of Venus, on tv, 7. links to Lincoln, 8. iOS, and the institution of slavery, 9. magneto uses a magnetron, 10. microwaves and macrowaves, and big wave surfing, 11. Nelson Mandela and LL Bean, 12. Mona the monarch, 13. Martina Navratilova's 74-game singles winning streak ends (to Helena Sukova), 14. JJ, James Joyce and JJ from Good Times (Jimmie Walker), 15. George Monck and his pet monkey, 16. Joyce Kilmer and Val Kilmer, 17. Osbert Sitwell's OS, operating system? that doesn't sit well with me; and Dave Brubeck's database, 18. Agnes Moorehead, in the a.m., Pietro Mascagni, in the p.m., 19. Steven Wright and the sinister authors of Dexter, with a ritual for proper production, a writing right rite, W: 20. hosts, hostess, and hostages, 21. hostile at the hospital and hostel, 22. Hmong are also called Miao, (cool cats, them Hmong!), 23. transubstantiated host is body, hostess cupcake is bread, and the hostage is hostile, (children as captive audience).

December 7

GR: 1. PhD, the Devil and Pearl harbor, 2. Tahitian heat, hotties, (Tahiti ain't Haiti), TH: 3. "if we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all" -Noam Chomsky (and Elon Musk, I think), 4. King Otto III wasn't an ottoman, 5. oceanography: yup, still wet! lol, (salty, too), 6. USS New Jersey's motto: "firepower for freedom" (beastly!), 7. bondage in Taiwan (tying up Juan), 8. Oder-Neisse river has a nice odor, 9. Excuse me, I have to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10. democratically elected government, by degrees, 11. God was mean to Armenia: 1988 earthquake leaves 25k xx, and 500k homeless, 12. JC, Joyce Carey, born 1888, 13. Rudolf Friml, Czech composer of "Rose Marie"; RRR (Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer -written by Robert L. May), 14. Louis Prima and Madonna, 15. Ellen Burstyn and Kramer on Seinfeld, cancel culture and Michael Richards (Kramer vs. Kramer!), 16. Willa Cather and WC Fields, 17. stop beefing with vegetarians, W: 18. Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Tulles Cicero, and Marcus Antonius, 19. mark of the beast, and the mob, 20. Upper Canada Rebellion, and UC Riverside, 21. Convent, Covington, and Covent, 22. Kaffa ain't Kufa, 23. there was an actual ship called the HMS Spiteful, 24. spit on a spot where there was a spate of spite, 25. parliament of Northern Ireland, and my little pony, 26. AE, arts and entertainment, Titan AE (after earth), American English, aeon (10 to the 9th years, in astronomy), and Albert Einstein, 27. type A in Taipei, 28. Prince Rainier and Sunni islam, 29. Popes and Patriarchs, you're in, 30. Yahya Khan, the yeah yeah yeahs, yahweh / Jehovah / YHWH, and st. Francis of a si si, (yes yes!), (da da and mama, dadaism), 31. the blue marble, the earth flag, and lost his marbles, 32. BM and bachelor of medicine, 33. Elle eye, and lethal injection, 34. grunts, gruntled and disgruntled, 35. it took 6 years for Galileo (spacecraft) to reach Jupiter, 36. Progressive Conservative party (of Canada), so p.c. (also, huh?).

December 8

GR: 1. CEO, Confessions of an English Opium-eater, chief executive officer, head honcho, big boss man, 2. McDonald's, mad cow disease, run dmc, and mark david chapman, 3. Golda Meir and mere gold, TH: 4. from A to Z, angels to zen, 5. angel buddha christ devil eucharist father god heaven illusion jesus karma love mother N-lightenment omen prayer questions reality spirit truth unholy visions wickedness xox yule zen, 6. Allah's army of angels, 7. Buddha's big belly, 8. Christ's crucifixion on a cross, 9. Devil's delight in depravity, 10. Enlightenment and ecstasy for everyone, 11. Father's final fury, 12. God is good and great, 13. Hindu happiness in holy Heaven, hallelujiah, 14. incarnation, intercession, INRI, and Islam, 15. Jews and Jains for Jesus, and Jesse Jehovah, 16. king of karma and kabbalah and koran, 17. the lord's labor of love, 18. me, myself, and the matrix of mother mary, 19. naming neo with nobility, 20. Omg, omens and orders, 21. a papal prayer for purity, 22. Quran, Qabbalah, questions, quests, 23. roman rite of really real rastafarian religion, 24. spiritual syncretism of Shinto scripture with Sikhism and even satanist saints, 25. torture on the cross and true truth, 26. unity of unitarians with ummah and U (a smiling universe), 27. vampiric vocation can be virtuous, 28. walk the whole wide world (and web!) with wisdom, 29. say yes to Yeshua, Yahweh, and your own you, (Xavier?), 30. Zionism and Zen and zilch, zero, zorro, 31. back to reality: connection by coaxial cable, 32. Sir Winston Churchill said, "I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down. Pigs treat us as equals," (pork you pine), 33. whatever happened to Byelorussia? yellow? bye? (byelo means white, actually; now called Belarus), 34. Panchen Lama has nothing to do with the happy buddha's paunch (!), 35. Yoko oh no! : she landscaped a section of Central Park across from where John Lennon was shot, it's called Strawberry Fields, 36. Jean Sibelius and Jimmy Smith, s.j., 37. wows, take a walk on the wild side, 38. Sammy Davis jr., San Diego, South Dakota, social democrats, and satan devil, 39. Maximilian Schell, smells like a million bucks, an AAAA (academy award-winning Austrian actor), 40. Strawberry fields, San Francisco, sigmund freud, -ucks, slow/fast, sinn fein, frank sinatra, science fiction, street fighter, and six flags, W: 41. do you know the Wei?, 42. Du Fu ain't count dookoo, 43. Sharia law and my sherona, 44. sin doesn't exist, only crime, and Original Sin? we are born innocent, -Sarah Mclachlan, 45. OS, helluva operating system, I'll proceed from shame, -Nirvana, 46. the Syllabus of Errors! holy shit, (1864 papal document condemns 80 heresies, like pantheism, liberalism, separation of church and state, protestantism, and even freedom of religion), 47. God wrote all the law books, lol, (if god is infinite, there is nothing that is not god), 48. God created the Devil, too (maybe he was bored?), 49. Karachi and karate to the crotch (ouch!), (Karanchi in Urdu, before independence, from Kolachi, who slayed a crocodile that ate his brothers...(?), or something), crunchy!, 50. cis-gender and the commonwealth of independent states, 51. atheist pantheism!? zen? zap!

December 9

GR: 1. cremation has nothing to do with cream; nor cryonics with crying; nor sky burial with a Supreme Being, 2. S and M in Santa Monica, TH: 3. Freddy Mercury, Ferdinand Marcos, and Freddy Martin on f.m. radio, 4. lions and tigers and bears, oh my! (in Lyon, Tigray, Beringia), 5. I know where: nowhere (now here), 6. Ramayana, Ramadan, and the sacrificial ram, 7. Topps trading cards, bought 'em, 8. all the gods don't believe in themselves, 9. nothing is truly infinite? (I think space is), and yet everything is internally infinite (getting smaller and smaller), 10. a multiverse of realities: psyches, books, people and places, times (always now, yet forever different), animals, tv/radio channels, websites, etc., 11. if, then: all in all is all we are; know thyself, gain omniscience, 12. maybe the expanding universe is everything in fact shrinking, says the shrink, 13. Bhagavad Gita, Bill Gates, and the Big Guy, 14. board games, blood glucose, basal ganglia, Benny Goodman, B Gizzle (baby gangsta), BarlowGirl, and The Bee Gees, 15. Flo's flow, 16. ants in Antarctica, ostrich in Austria, Erica in America, 17. leavin' the Louvre for Leuven, 18. coochie coochie coo, and Ayacucho Peru, 19. crime in Crimea, baklava in Balaklava, 20. a dish from Mogadishu, 21. Ty Cobb, Lee Cobb, and Cobb CA, 22. Redd Foxx and Blue Ivy Carter, W: 23. the Khazars and Kaiser Permanente and Kezar stadium, 24. Umayyads, oh my!, 25. a law (allah?) separating church and state, 26. losers from Luzon, winners from Winnipeg, 27. constitution and consti3tion and consti4tion, 28. Hope BC and Hope Arkansas, (operation restore hope, was in Somalia), 29. Tongans getting a tan in Tanganyika, 30. (smallpox '79 and rinderpest, 2011) driven to extinction, 31. selling a senate seat is not selling a chair, 32. Ahmad, Madrigal, Madonna, Madagali, Madagascar, Madrid, Madhya Pradesh, Ahmadabad, madeira, and madness, 33. chinese chi in Chiapas!, 34. medication in Medina, 35. Caligula in California, 36. ugly in Uganda, 37. stupid in Stuttgart, stupid Numidians, 38. mean Meena, 39. rotten in Rotterdam, 40. causing a stink in Hastings, 41. raining puke in Ukraine, 42. gushing in Russia, 43. quelling hell in Zelle.

December 10

GR: 1. Bingo, Bing Crosby, and Bing (search engine), 2. the other Manhattan (Kansas), TH: 3. Venice the menace, 4. fundamental butthead, 5. drama with King Rama, 6. Teshara and Scarlett O'Hara, 7. Mr. Universe and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 8. Larry T, Los Angeles, (TE) Lawrence of Arabia and la-la land, 9. KB Toys and Kenneth Branagh, ("the only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys" -malcolm s. forbes), 10. Courtney Love and Dorothy Lamour, 11. Morton Gould and MG sports cars, 12. meditating to Oliver Messiaen, 13. erectile dysfunction with Emily Dickinson, 14. Cesar Franck and ellen covington-french, consolidated freightways, european cycling federation, W: 15. Dungeness crab and the mistress of the dungeon, 16. torching a lorcha, 17. mucho macho, and tacho's nachos, 18. Hannah from Savannah, 19. Kevin from Pleven, 20. The US paid Spain $20M for the Philippines, (doesn't add up to a hill of beans!), 21. Tejava and Rojava, 22. Derek from Derik, 23. Nelson Mandela, son of man, suntan, and hell's bells, Devan in seventh heaven (and Evan in eleven).

December 11

GR: 1. Darjeeling, you send me, 2. Sam Cooke says I am not a crook, TH: 3. John Grey, Gray Davis, Gray's Anatomy, Gandolf the grey, the greys (race of space alien visitors), and life is not black and white, 4. Baron says there's a bear in the barn, 5. We didn't land at Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us! -Malcolm X, 6. Venetian blinds were patented in London, 7. N2O (nitrous oxide, laughing gas), the gas is laughing? the living room is alive? the deep blue sea!, 8. bijou (small but elegant and tasteful), be jew, 9. FILA and falling in love again, 10. Shah of Iran and Shawshank redemption and sha-na-na, 11. Hosni (Mubarak) in Grozny (Chechnya), 12. greenhouse gases and Whitehouse liquids and Red House WV solids, 13. excommunication and texting your ex, 14. Hector Berlioz, heckling Hector the Protector, 15. cultured bacteria, going to opera and ballet, 16. guarding the Fiero, and Fiorello La Guardia, 17. Carlo Ponti and the pontiff, 18. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's soul, W: 19. don't have a Cao, man, 20. some maura soddom and gamorra at Samarra, 21. Adam and Eve in Geneva, 22. Lord Methuen and his meth monsters, 23. Vincenzo Peruggia and the veep, 24. Lewis CK and Christ the King, 25. as you wish, so be it, Soviet, 26. Janet Yellen and Boris Yeltsin, 27. Is Allah white? asks an Alawite.

December 12

GR: 1. You can't spell Tallulah without Allah, 2. are you her? "what's left of her" (!), TH: 3. Mara Syria and Mara-salvatrucha and Margaret, Moira, Maura, 4. Ysabel, and Isabella, 5. hiding from Haydn, Jekyll and Hyde, 6. Steele stealing steel? on Bastille day, 7. raccoons in Thailand? tycoon, (considered legal pets there, and can be purchased easily!), 8. Joe Williams, Jehovah's Witness, 9. Gustave Flau-bear, and Salmon Rushdie, W: 10. Heraclius ain't Heraclitus, 11. Yahoo ain't the Yazoo river, 12. miners aren't minors (and shouldn't be), 13. Joseph H. Rainey and Sunny the sunni, 14. Boys Town and Boyz in the hood and Boise Idaho, 15. angst on the Yangtze, 16. eating fish in Finland, finished with Swedish fish, 17. grieving ongoing destruction, 18. the perquisites of belonging to the People's Republic of Korea, 19. I am Siam, I have ties to Thailand, 20. cock in Bankok, climbing the country, 21. Cana-da and Ken-ya and America-no, 22. Paco in Tumaco, 23. sun-tzunami.

December 13

GR: 1. Dr. Samuel Johnson, s.j. (died age 74), TH: 2. buglers, burgers, whitey bulger, and buggerers, 3. Bulgars (extinct people), bulgur (wheat), bulgar (dance), and Bolghar (city), 4. bagger, I want a bigger bag, said the beggar with a booger, 5. Protestant Reformation referee, 6. why is the E omitted from ABCDF? (it was feared it would be misinterpreted as 'excellent'), 7. Abel Tasman and T as mania, 8. Kovno Poland (killer of vampires? no), 9. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (under the pseudonym Ellis Bell), 'wuthering' means characterized by strong winds, 10. Matsuno ain't Matsui, 11. Robert E. Lee, really?, 12. smoking pot on the Potomac, 13. Pentagon and League of Nations (and Elon), 14. Elon and Ellen, Christopher and Christine, Jesse and Jessica, 15. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and God, out of order (or does everything happen all at once, for a deity, outside of time?), 16. abortion consortium, 17. Siemens, seamen, and semen, 18. X-men and C-men, 19. White House and sir William Hamilton, 20. toying with Carlos Montoya, 21. John Piper and piper at the gates of dawn, 22. Van Heflin and Van Halen, 23. Kaiser Permanente and Kenneth Patchen, 24. Communist Party and Christopher Plummer, 25. zeedee salad and Richard Darryl Zanuck, W: 26. an ascetic hermit became Pope! (and returned to it 5 months into his papacy, resigning (!), 27. Celestine and the Sistine chapel and teenage sister, 28. Sir Francis Drake was nicknamed "el draque" (the dragon) (drake is a male duck), 29. well I'll be, New Albion and Jessica Alba and albinos, 30. Pequot Indians and kumquats, 31. the sequel is equally geeky, 32. massacre of masses occurred, there was no king of nanking, 33. military engagement isn't the same as two people becoming engaged to be married, 34. N-gauge model trains (stands for 9mm, although the actual gauge -distance between rails- is 8.97mm), 35. The Big Apple (NYC) and The Big Orange (Tel Aviv), 36. Archbishop becomes president (Cyprus, 1959), 37. lowly Haile Selassie, 38. G-D, government by decree, 39. 12 astronauts have walked on the surface of the moon, (not including Michael Jackson), 40. malt liquor from Malta, 41. capitulation and pits full of corpses, 42. Yasser Arafat, am I fat? no sir!, 43. Mona from Verona, tells an adage on the Adige, 44. Supreme Being enters the Sansad Bhavan!, (building housing the Indian Parliament), 45. dominating Saddam Hussein (who's sane?), sad Sodom.

December 14

GR: 1. George Washington died, age 67 (1799), of laryngitis (and its treatment, which caused bleeding); he said, of becoming president, " my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike that of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution", (he was president 1789-1797), TH: 2. reverence for Paul Revere, 3. all-Alexander Hamilton, BOTUS, bank of the United States, to ease revolutionary war debt and establish a healthy line of credit, 4. (St. Lucia's flood), 50k xx in 1287 Netherlands, when Zuider Zee seawall collapses (lives "lost"), 5. Max Planck and minimum mote, and "black bodies", 6. (Planck's) quantum theory and (Einstein's) theory of relativity are the basis of modern physics, (are both still just theoretical?), 7. table tennis tournament and tic-tac-toe, 8. concrete cretin from Crete, Vaclav Havel likes gravel, 9. armed with an AK, pledging allegiance to the king, 10. billiards in Iraq, 11. Elizabeth Taylor, E.T. up in heaven with the space aliens, 12. cccc, crimes committed at concentration camps? the whole damn thing was a crime! (even if you weren't the "butcher of Belsen"), 13. annexation of Anne's neck, 14. Roald Amundsen says amen, 15. Tycho wears a bra, 16. Nostradamus predicts a hippopotamus, 17. Roger Fry, Tim Cook, Matt Baker, Barbara Q, and waving to Mike Rowe, 18. James H. Doolittle, and Doolot Sydykov, doing much at Domchanch?, 19. Margaret Chase Smith (first woman elected to both houses of congress) said, "when people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it", 20. Lee Remick's gimmick on a hammock, 21. Spike Lee and Spike Jones, and Spike (vampire), W: 22. Hagia Sophia (means 'holy wisdom'), and a sophisticated hag, 23. eunuchs and menukin (Iranian village) and Enoch (and Giovanni Stefano Menochio), 24. Revolutionary War, right wing, rough wooing, 25. AEIOU (all the world is subject to Austria, coined by emperor Frederick III), 26. in the habit of flying in a hot air balloon, 27. Borg and Ernest Borgnine and Lake Borgne LA, 28. stinky plutonium, 29. first video game! (1948), 'cathode-ray tube amusement device', 30. Burma (Myanmar) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Zaire (droc), and PRC (people's republic of Congo, now just ROC), 31. people and papal and pipal and Edward Peple, 32. benign and B9, U2 and you too, 33. Baldwin Hills Reservoir and James Baldwin and 4 Baldwin brothers (all actors): Alec, William, Daniel, Stephen, 34. a discriminating taste vs. fighting discrimination, 35. crimini mushrooms and criminality, (say, a mushroom cloud), 36. ccc, constitution's commerce clause, 37. a Cherokee chief named Wilma Mankiller, (the surname comes from a Cherokee military rank -similar to captain or major-, or a shaman with the ability to avenge wrongs through spiritual methods), 38. the Abkhazian cause, 39. gorgeous gorges, 40. Kosovo and the Poconos, 41. Yoko Ono and Yoyo Ma, 42. Pervez Musharraf and Arctic Monkeys, 43. the Millau milieu, 44. Captain Hook and Sandy Hook CT, and hookers, 45. playing hookie ain't playing hockey, (or hacky-sack), 46. South Sudan, not nazi.

December 15

GR: 1. Walt Disney died, age 65 (1966), from (treatment for) a cancerous lung lesion (probably from smoking); he was cremated, not frozen, 2. Mickey Mouse was originally Mortimer, but his wife Lillian nixed that, 3. Walt said, "I love that mouse more than any woman I have ever known", TH: 4. enterprising youth opens a business (Byzantine), 5. Basil and Fazil and Azazel, 6. cheerleaders root for a trade route to Beirut (go, team!), 7. indian wind, 8. patent and Patrick in a tent, 9. drug trips and tourist travel and ("have a nice trip, see you next fall"), 10. cats, cattle, and the confederate army of tennessee, 11. Boers, bores, boars, and bow (and arrows), 12. British Broadcasting Corporation, billionaire boys club, big black cock, 13. Gone with the wind, Tuesday's gone, may the wind be always at your back, the Windy City, and wind-up toys, 14. Cylons wear nylon, 15. pylons (cones, "witches hats") prevent pile-ups, 16. Lena Horne sings the Holy Land, 17. Shinto and Chinese (shin, toe, chin, knee), 18. Babe Ruth and Babe Didrikson Zaharias, 19. Davy Crockett and the District of Columbia, 20. Adolf Eichmann's head on a pike, man, 21. nuclear reactors and the reactive mind, 22. Nero and Enron and eros and neurosis, and zero, and euros, 23. George Romney (related to Mitt?), stuck in my chimney, 24. Gustave Eiffel gave us (not so awful) eyefuls, 25. Bechtel and Antoine Bequerel, 26. J. Paul Getty (and Givenchy), 27. Stan Kenton and Clark Kent, 28. actor Jeff Chandler and singer Jerry Wallace (JC and JW), 29. Bill of Rights and Kill Bill of Lefts, 30. Ziro (town in india) and Xero shoes, W: 31. Alec and the Vandalic War, 32. Does Belisarius ring a bell?, no? Belgrade?, 33. Elmer Fudd and Sarah Michelle Gellar and King Gelimer, 34. Sergio, surge protector, and pope Sergius, 35. chinese emperor assassinated!, 36. antique ants, 37. Lionel Messi making a mess in Messina, like the messiah, 38. my mongol uncle's angle, 39. Hulagu watches Hulu, 40. bye bye, Baia, 41. Cumberland and slumberland, and slums, 42. Edo and Ezo and Brian Eno, 43. desert, dessert, and Deseret, 44. Sara Brown and Sitting Bull, suicide bombing, and a supreme being, 45. God and the Ghost Dance, 46. Yaddo, shadow, and the Caddo, 47. Pushkin and pulling strangers, 48. losing your car keys in Kharkiv, 49. beachhead, lol, 50. How did General Douglas MacArthur have the authority to order Shinto abolished as the state religion of Japan??, 51. connubial bliss in Nepal, 52. Ron Day voodoo, 53. roots in Beirut, anonymous from Lebanon, 54. J Teshara and Sharjah UAE, 55. LT of Pisa, 56. William Mynors sailed past Christmas Island on xmas 1643.

December 16

GR: 1. dying is dull and dreary, TH: 2. going out with a bang (screen door), 3. politically critical, 4. god, to a birdbrain: geese owls ducks, 5. bye bye to dying like my lai, and hi to flying high in the sky, guys (why? pie!), 6. cruel fuel, fool!, don't be a tool, 7. I've been wallowing in my own chaotic insecure delusion, el cid, 8. Charlie Chaplin goes to church, 9. General Theory of Relativity, and gators, generals, relatives, 10. earthquake kills 200k in 1920 China, 11. Paunch-us Pilot fights the battle of the bulge, 12. a Saab story (svenska aeroplan aktie bolegat), 13. Bangui, Bangladesh, Bankok, 14. what the heck happened in Japan in 1997 when 700 viewers suffered epileptic spasms and nausea from watching a cartoon (!?), (weaponizing television? a la Infinite Jest, by DFW), 15. perusing the libraries of Peru, 16. lewd wig bait oven, 17. Jane Austen in Austin, TX, and Boston, and Fhloston paradise, 18. (Johann Wilhelm) Ritter discovered UV light, critters like me like to eat Ritters (chocolates), 19. Hey, fever! what's up?, 20. Howard ain't no coward, Broward, 21. Sir VS Pritchett and Sir Terry Pratchett, 22. Liv Ullmann and Diego Maradona, 23. George Santayana and Mahayana buddhism, W: 24. Pepin and Plectrude (why don't we still name folks like this? lol), 25. Chang and England, 26. Olivia from Valdivia Chile, 27. meditate well on Cromwell, om, 28. Sons of Liberty and daughters of the american revolution, 29. AOC, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Articles of Confederation and age of consent, 30. it's all good news - Ed's Redeeming Qualities; good news for people that like bad news -modest mouse; Good News bible, it's all good, 31. For Nothing is evil in the beginning - JRR Tolkien; Nothing is evil which is according to Nature - Marcus Aurelius, 32. New Madrid, Missouri (misery of being sane?), 33. Freedom in Freeport, Liberia, or Fredonia, 34. quaternions and octonians and Oregonians, 35. Lyttelton NZ and Big Brother, 36. Nashville and the evil gnashing their teeth, 37. Empire, vampire, and spontaneous human combustion, self-immolation, burning at the stake, and suttee, getting burned, on fire, 38. honkin' in Tonkin, 39. Tierra del Fuego fire department, 40. wailing whales off Wales, 41. Hellenic Helen in hell, 42. Ottomans in Mecca (auto mechanic), 43. What do admirals admire? General Jennifer!, 44. ow shits ain't Auschwitz (this ain't Wittgenstein wit), 45. Jews choose reading news to the blues, 46. Sooz refuses to pay dues (pews, ruse, snooze, queues?), 47. newz yous can use (me, myself, and I and I), 48. General AAK Niazi wasn't a nazi, 49. Pastors from the past, 50. Pasteur in the pasture.

December 17

GR: 1. Lazarus died a second time (A.D. 63), according to biblical scholars, 2. is there death in heaven? immortality? born-again? any other heaven than heaven-on-earth?, 3. Reading Dorothy Leigh Sayers on LSD, with the Latter Day Saints, (and DSL: digital subscriber line; DLS: doctor of liberal studies), Slade sold a sled, TH: 4. Santa's sleigh, satan's slay, and Slayer's saint, not nazi, 5. Hanuman and Jeff Hanneman, 6. Tughluk, out of luck (ugh), 7. hematoma and hyperglycemia in Bohemia, 8. supreme head of the Church of England, supreme head of the church of Jesse :-), 9. Potemkin on pot, 10. Sun Stone (made in 1479, found in 1790), not nazi, like Saratoga Springs NY, 11. Peter Tchaikovsky and PT, (e.g boat, physical therapy, passenger train, mom), 12. Edgar and Candice Bergen (daughter), 13. you are you in Uruguay, 14. Monty makes a video in Montevideo, 15. Brb, I have to make a public proclamation, 16. atlas assault, at last, 17. hate, Haiti, and Hades, 18. kangaroos from Peru?, 19. Sir Humphrey Davy (and Peter and James, blast from the past), 20. wittier than Whittier, 21. artists named Arthur, 22. Erskine Caldwell and Barrett S Caldwell, 23. sapphire and William Safire ("I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know"), W: 24. Saturnalia on Saturn!, 25. plundering down under, 26. baby Yoda, baby Allah, and Totila, 27. timber! timorous Timur, 28. excuse me, I have to elect Pope Paul, 29. Godesberg, and Bad Godesberg, 30. donated and detonated, 31. Pilot's plot, 32. Pilates and pills, 33. anguish in Angostura, 34. learning the ABC's of economics and finance in the Financial District, 35. Franz Schubert plays Qbert in SF, 36. Antanas Smetona and composer Bedrich Smetana, 37. Bob Saget, baguette, and Bhagat Singh, suck devil Sukhdev, and siva Shivaram, 38. Otto Hahn (German chemist) wasn't Han chinese, 39. battle of the river plate, burp, 40. Civil Rights Congress circus, 41. cadaver and Cape Canaveral FL, 42. Gdynia Poland and God in ya!, 43. Palestinian pals of Estonians, 44. Brigadier General Bill Gates, and Betty Grable, 45. Tim is in Timisoara, 46. don't harsh my (Fernando Collor de) Mello, 47. supersonic nazis.

December 18

GR: 1. homeless (in a van), unemployed, depressed, suicidal organ donor fucks up, again (he was going to donate his heart to his brother, but was discovered too late - 10 minutes- after shooting himself in the head, outside the hospital), TH: 2. Teshara, Sheraton, Sara, Aragon, Zaragossa, Ankara, Aramaic, Arabic, and arable land, 3. Tara and Sharia and Avalokiteshvara, 4. teaching treachery over tea, 5. domain and demesne, in Maine, 6. Memorial Union and Carlin Commons, 7. commoners and uncommoners, queers, 8. excuse me, I need to read the Baltimore Monitor, 9. Peggy-O in Lake Ontario, 10. John William Draper and Brother Draper, 11. 13th amendment ends slavery, except bdsm slaves and slaying vampires, 12. very Larry, 13. don't give me no lip about Gallipoli, 14. WWI, Battle of Verdun, done (650k xx, 23m shells fired; about 1 death for every 35 shots), 15. Su-Lin the panda, and insulin, 16. Operation Barbarossa was originally called operation Fritz, (Hi Tri and Clay), 17. a wigwam in Guam, 18. Associated Press and taking an AP exam (advanced placement), 19. humming a hymn with him, 20. it seems I've never heard of Yeames, 21. J.J. Thomson discovered the electron, and JJ Evans, John Jay, etc., 22. LL Cool J and LL Bean and LL the king, 23. drinking sake with Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), 24. Viktor Kee and Paul Klee (twittering machine), 25. Christopher Fry and Josie Fries, 26. Dame Celia Johnson and Holly Johnson, 27. BP, british petroleum, Baden Powell, Brad Pitt, black powder, blood pressure, boiling point, W: 28. forced conversions, outlawing Islam, and don't believe in yourself, either, 29. Bambi and the battle of Mbumbi, 30. King Kong and the Kingdom of the Kongo, 31. triceratops in Saratoga, 32. God Save the Tsar! (save like on a computer (or a hoarder), redeem like a coupon, and pray like a lion), 33. seniors and the seigneurial system, 34. William Seward and sewers, wards, wills, and Sue, 35. Sue-nami, 36. Tawney and the Al-Thani family, 37. the resolve of a chemist to pass a resolution, 38. Heligoland Bight, go to hell and bite me, 39. Epimetheus and Prometheus, saturnine on Saturn, 40. Operation Linebacker (?, really?), 41. merry in Marysville, maniac manor, cozy corner, 42. Sue and Dan and Andre in Adre Sudan, 43. aphasia in Malaysia, 44. meteor over Bering Sea, in 2018, explodes with force of 10 Hiroshima atomic bombs (!).

December 19

GR: 1. Professor Giannell de Jannell goes berserk, contrary to his own principles of nonviolence, 2. In 1959, Walter Williams, the last Civil War veteran, dies peacefully, of old age (117 yo). He had fought for the confederacy. TH: 3. Drusilla and the battle of Dreux, 4. Poor Richard's Almanac, and Richie Rich comics, 5. Ignoring the rain, and the Dreyfus affair, 6. Ronald Reagan in a Rolls-Royce, with Risto Ryti, 7. the Apollo program wasn't appalling, 8. George Nichopolous and Conrad Murray (doctors of disrepute for Elvis and Michael Jackson, respectively), 9. Andrei Sakharov and R Sacharoff, 10. Karpov and Kasparov and the Keystone Kops and the KKK, 11. Mike King, Mike Kong, Hong Kong, and honking at King Kong, 12. Frick you, baseball commissioner!, 13. David Susskind (tv producer) and Leonard Susskind (physicist), 14. a god named Gordon, 15. Cicely Tyson and Iron Mike, W: 16. sinister minister and mister twisted sister, 17. Godspeed, one of the ships carrying settlers to the 13 colonies, and Godspeed you black emperor, 18. lord, have Murcia, 19. Gigi and the Governor-General, 20. Annapolis and plebiscite (plebe site, vote for your boat), 21. harmony with Fritz Haarmann, arm in arm, (I just jest, unless I'm Hans Gans), 22. John Amery in the armory, 23. Indoor China and outdoor Germany (god in Indochina), 24. mon dieu! demons from Daman and Diu, 25. HH Harold Holt, and Gustav Holst (the planets), (holster has an unknown dutch etymology), 26. Nelson, Wilson, Hanson, and Unson, in sin, 27. Joe Cole, jeezus chriced, 28. Huron tribe and blue herons, 29. muse, mews, music, and Musi river Indonesia, 30. Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, the only US presidents to be impeached (though none convicted), and 'peaches' by the band, The Presidents of the United States of America, sweet justice, peachy-keen, 31. farting in Buenos Aires, ("fair winds"), 32. Park and Moon, South Korean leaders, 33. Andrei Karlov and Boris Karloff.

December 20

GR: 1. sacred sandalwood, to burn the nazis on, in Hindu fashion, 2. Potsie is a nazi paparazzi, but Otzi the iceman? not a ROTC nazi playing Yahtzee (I need to get off my nazi kick, I think), 3. 1500-4000xx in 1987 Philippine Sea, when 2 ships (oil tanker and ferry) collide in a fiery explosion: nightmare- passengers were forced into shark-infested water, with the surface on fire with spilled oil, TH: 4. (Titus Flavius) Vespasian (tit flavor and vespas in Asia!), a general under Nero (zero?), claims title of emperor (69 A.D.)- his reign was noted for order and initiating a century of peace, (Nero was the 5th Roman emperor, actually), 5. Jamestown and Jonestown and J-Town, 6. The Louisiana purchase bought portions of what would be 10 states for $15 million, 7. cunning in Kunming, 8. argon, Argonne, and are gone, 9. Vatican nuncio and nuns and nonesuch, 10. losing a tennis match and racketeering, 11. Aust, Austria, Australia, Austrasia, Austronesia, Austin, and Austerlitz, 12. Billy Bragg bragging about Fort Bragg, 13. Max Lerner and ignorant Iggy and Brian Teacher, 14. Jim Simpson, s.j., 15. Hortense Heffelfinger (!), 16. Harvey in an RV, 17. Reading Albert Michelson in the a.m., 18. Great White sharks, the Great White Way, and the great white fleet, 19. is all of humanity subject to the laws of every country?? (a U.S. jury convicted Manuel Noriega, Panama's president, of (US) criminal charges), 20. Is Irene Dunn done with being irenic?, 21. Ostrogoth ostriches, W: 22. my sister the Cistercian, in the CIA, 23. to succeed at seceding, not sucking seed (say, sunflower seeds), 24. Charles Lindbergh wasn't at Landsberg prison (with a littler HItler), 25. hilarious Hillary, 26. when pigs fly, when monkeys fly out of my butt, and the flying tigers, 27. cut it out, Calcutta, 28. wake to an earthquake, 29. yogi doing yoga in Yogyakarta, 30. Luis Carrero Blanco at the White House, 31. touchy-feely in Greeley CO, 32. World Youth Day and National Senior Citizens Day, 33. 'honor killing' and not honoring the ten commandments (e.g. thou shalt not kill), 34. the boss of Bosnia, 35. don't have a Macau, man, 36. the gal on the porch is Portuguese, 37. exsqueeze me, I need to Pablo Picasso, 38. Eight US uniformed services: Space Force (2019, newest branch since 1947), Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, USPHS (Public Health Service), NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).

December 21

GR: 1. F. Scott Fitzgerald (author of The Great Gatsby) died, poor and alcoholic, age 44, from heart attack (he was named after Francis Scott Key, a relative), 2. "the object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other dumb bastard die for his" -General George S. Patton, TH: 3. Libyans tried under Scottish law in the Netherlands (???), 4. Anne under anaesthesia, 5. Trent and Kent tell the Ents to get bent, 6. Oakland Raiders raid the lab for radium, 7. junkie injunctions, 8. my theorem on serum is to not get near 'em, 9. Morpheus and the seven dwarfs, 10. Bill's stability, 11. prostitution, constitutions, and tits, (and 2 shins), 12. ATM, around the moon, 13. Eva's wit at the comedy club in Geneva Switzerland, 14. Carlos the Jackal and Jack the jacket, 15. Kill Bill, the KGB, and Enemy at the Gates, 16. Racine's racy scenes, 17. Benjamin Disraeli wasn't Israeli (or jewish: his father renounced Judaism and baptized his 4 sons into the Church of England), 18. Joseph Stalin, s.j., 19. Long jumpers and the Great Leap Forward, 20. Oliver North and Dame Rebecca West and Clint Eastwood and the South commission, going south, 21. Phil Donahue, PhD, 22. I'm fond of Jane Fonda, W: 23. Conrad has covid, 24. Ryazan and Ryze mushroom coffee, rise and shine, 25. seeking a cacique, 26. Robert Redford drives a red ford, but William Bradford drives a Plymouth, 27. I declare, I need an eclair, 28. Kanye in Konya, 29. the valor and value of Val, 30. Cops in Copenhagen, copulating with Copernicus, 31. crossword puzzles and cross words (like swear words, or crux), 32. Emma Goldman, for example (e.g.), 33. Anarchists and Anne Rice, Annette Riddle, kissed; anti-state and prostate cancer, 34. Cypriot riot, 35. heart transplant and transexual houseplants, 36. loonie (Canadian coin) and loony loons on a lunar trajectory, (fly me to the moon!), 37. venomous voices, like wormtongue, 38. an essay by Stacey Abrams, 39. Going to Burger King with Brian Kemp, (reading Brothers Karamazov with?), 40. Ahem, Bethlehem.

December 22

GR: 1. drunk driver smashes into pedestrian, TH: 2. holy melancholy, evil like Neville in Seville, wicked kids, Evel Knievel on another level, pure puritans, ripped in your crypt, 3. Messiah Jessemiah (just jesting), with Zebediah and Josiah, 4. swirling a glass of wine and the whirled cup, 5. Fifi barks at FIFA, 6. Spike in his crypt tonight, Superman and his kryptonite, 7. don't be an ass (like Amrou Ibn el-Ass), 8. Sara the Saracen, 9. Blois (blah, blah, blah), 10. Pope Honorius III approves the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), 1216 AD, 11. O.P. operatives, preach and teach to reach each, (eat the peach on the beach!), 12. More birds, more cowbell, Moravians, Morley Safer, morgue and mortality, morbid in Mordor, mork, mörbius, morpheus, mormon, mourning, morse, or less, 13. belonging to the lique-faction, 14. Emil Jellinek designs a car (built by Daimler) and names it after his daughter, Mercedes, 15. Superman eats soup, gets his cape from Cape Town, 16. come as you are, go-rilla, 17. ah, agua in Managua, Nicaragua, wet water, not powdered water (just add water); Canada Dry?!, lol, 18. I hope Richard Reid enjoys reading, 19. JC, John Crome, 20. Puccini and poutine, 21. EAR, Edwin Arlington Robinson, 22. Big Bird and Lady Bird Johnson, 23. BM of Alcatraz, 24. Ralph Fiennes, fined for vomiting, 25. Annie Oakley and Gloria Jacobs, sharpshooters, not nazis, W: 26. moaning Mona from the monastery, 27. a pope succeeds his father in the office, 28. starving Chao, says ciao to chow, 29. monarch on an ark, mon (come to Jamaica, mon), 30. cold in Burma, brrr, 31. Wells Fargo cargo embargo, 32. choral coral, singing polyps, 33. Angie bathes in the Ganges, 34. a bad day for libraries (LOC 1851 and Alexandria 640 AD), and giving books a rest in Bucharest, 35. Anna from Savannah, 36. Sam the samurai, 37. pharaoh from Faroe Islands, 38. slim moose and Muslims, 39. Himara Albania and Heraklion Crete; Himalayas and Herat, Mount Herard, 40. referee refusing to allow refugees refection or reefers, 41. MSF (doctors without borders) founded, 1971, in Paris, 42. George Soros goes to Comoros, 43. Gerald Ford (the presidential limo "the Beast" built by GM), 44. defending borders, those are my orders (even if you think they're ordure), 45. Bernhard Goetz and Bill Gates and other BeeGees, like Brandenburg Gate, 46. Zimbabwe African People's Union (zapu!), 47. paraplegic paramilitaries, 48. Malia Obama and Somalia, 49. Hamid Karzai drinks mead in his car, 50. bashing Bashir, kisses in Qissa.

December 23

GR: 1. John Wayne Gacy and Jack Webb, and JWs (Jehovah's witnesses), Jorge Washington, 2. JWST, JW saint? no, James Webb Space Telescope!, TH: 3. Hugo, Huguenots, and The Hague, 4. hansom cab is handsome, 5. Cumans and Vincent Van Gogh, 6. dessert, deserts, and desertion, 7. The Cleveland Browns are named after their first coach, Paul Brown, 8. Tojo stepped on Joe's toes, 9. Samuel Smiles and Alexander Grin, 10. Sardonic Vincent Sardi, 11. James Gregory and jaeger, and Jose Greco, and Jesse/Greg, 12. the divinity of Dan Devine, 13. Chet Baker and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, 14. Akihito and Tito and Judge Ito eat Fritos, W: 15. men of the Chlothar, 16. storm troopers and military weather control, cloud seeding, say, (and Elementals!), 17. Emma and Uma and umma, and ummagumma, 18. Chip Hansel and Margarete, eating chips, 19. Engelbert Humperdinck, eh?, 20. styrofoam in Cairo, 21. WWI battle of Sarikamish, sorry amish, friendly fire kills 2k Ottomans (!!), 22. Buddhists on Wake island, 23. General Walton Walker and commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson and World War, Wonder Woman, Weight Watchers, wrong word, 24. cobblestones and stoned in Kabul, 25. Prime minister eats prime rib with minestrone soup.

December 24

GR: 1. Larry, lost at Russian roulette, why?, TH: 2. How do they calculate sentencing for war crimes? both sides kill, and conscripts have no choice, and the killing is on a vastly greater scale than a mass murderer, and you can't lock up everybody.. (10 years in Spandau for an admiral?), TH: 3. Wright brothers and Howard Hughes and Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart... 4. IRS, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, 5. I.F. Stone and The Rock, 6. Giuseppe Verdi and James Joule and Giuliani, Julie, Judy, Jue, Jubien, jukebox, jewellery, and betelgeuse, 7. Kit Carson and building your own kit car, 8. Harry Warren and Elizabeth Warren, W: 9. Xiao Shao and ow, 10. Catalonia and Cephalonia, 11. Paul from Bhopal, 12. Ghent? is that what you meant? you can't pay your rent during Lent? You live in a tent? I was sent a penthouse magazine? the sentinel took fentanyl?, 13. the Sultan of Brunei sobbing in his Saab, 14. Gary, hon? are you hungry? (Hungary), 15. cha-ching! koochy-koochy koo! (Kuching), 16. Eyes in Howard (Eisenhower's howitzer), 17. Supreme Overlord! so?, 18. Idris and iblis and ibis, 19. cycling alone in a cyclone, 20. the door to Dorchester, 21. Batman in Kathmandu, 22. Lara in the Lord's Resistance Army, (you gone t' Uganda?), 23. Happy birthday, St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491). We are, S.I.

December 25

GR: 1. W.C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield) died of liver damage and a stomach hemorrhage, after reading the Bible ("looking for loopholes"), 2. Charlie Chaplin died age 88, ("in the end, everything is a gag"), TH: 3. Charles the Bald and Harry the hairy, 4. Islam in Lompoc: Islompoc!, 5. Lam: to attack or hit (hard), Islam is lam?, I slam, ISL am (e.g. International Socialist Left), anagram of amisl (a missile?), a slim, m Lisa, silam, malis, 6. Slim Shady and Carlos Slim and Slim Jim and Slim Pickens, 7. Stars and Stripes Forever, 3 Cheers for Camp Royaneh, 8. SIN, Sir Isaac Newton, and Beryl Vertue, 9. Clara Barton on BART, 10. William Collins and Phil Collins, 11. Dorothy listens to the Doors, 12. the radical convictions of Conrad, 13. Humphrey the male prostitiute, 14. Allowing Cab Calloway to go all the way in a cab, 15. Anwar Sadat, sad about war, 16. paying sterling for Rod Serling, 17. brb, I have to Barbara Mandrell, 18. Sissy Spacek, not nazi, and Braveheart, W: 19. Saint Remigius was a bit religious, 20. glowing saxophone of an Anglo-Saxon, 21. Clovis smokes clove cigarettes, 22. Hessian session musicians, 23. FFF, 666, fight for freedom.

December 26

GR: 1. Harry Truman dies, age 88, of a cold, "I am a broken machine, but I am ready", TH: 2. Christopher Columbus and cc rider, 3. Clear about King Lear, 4. The Count, in his country, 5. Elizabeth Bathory and the East Bay, 6. Daniel Shay and soccer derby and San Diego wasn't devil/satan (evil, sin), 7. does rebellion in bell-bottoms ring a bell?, 8. Eerie and eldritch at the Erie canal, 9. paper view, 10. Sued by the Sioux, 11. f.m. radio in Franklin, Massachusetts, 12. coffee percolator, because you won't be perky in your coffin, 13. JJ, Jack Johnson, Jesse Jackson, Jesse James, James Joyce, judge Judy, Jim Jones, jesu juva, etc., 14. troll control, 15. treatment, retreat, and dog treats, 16. JW, Johnny Weissmuller, 17. praying for a pew-litzer prize, 18. Nissan and nephews, Santa-san, 19. "great arsenal of democracy" (agod), 20. a lot of losers like Winston, 21. Anglo-American AA, 22. Bastogne Belgium wasn't won with BB guns, 23. Porgy and Bess, pb, orgy mess, 24. dear Indira (of India) Gandhi (gone), 25. Sancho Panza celebrates kwanzaa, 26. Roaming charges in Rome, 27. an elegy for Lev Grossman, 28. Thomas Gray was white, 29. Charles Babbage was a savage that ate cabbage, 30. passing the dramatist test, 31. Dion Boucicault and Deon Sanders and Bernie Sanders, 32. G-D, George Dewey, 33. hm, Henry Miller, ill and in penury, 34. revelling revolutionaries, 35. bowing to Mao, 36. irenic Irene Handl and Handel and handling candles, 37. Richard Widmark, rhymes with skid mark, 38. an essay on Steve Allen, 39. Phil Spector, had his fill with ghosts, W: 40. Burying Berengar, 41. broke in Westbroek, 42. Wazir and Zaberdast, Khan-victs, (and fun names), 43. I want Harrison in my garrison, 44. kissing Borg in Wissembourg, 45. eulogy and me-logy, 46. freedom of the Pressburg, 47. golly, gollum is in Golymin?, 48. pulling teeth in Pultusk, 49. venerable (Abraham B.) Venable, 50. RV in Richmond, VA, 51. fire suppression systems, oppression and repression, and the press, 52. Even Ents pay rent, 53. Herman and Sherman and Joe Ehrman wear ermine, 54. Gilbert and Sullivan are a gas, 55. Marie and Pierre Curie, and megaparsecs (Mpc), 56. crazy (Harry) Frazee, 57. Bambi and the Bambino, 58. Thanksgiving for living (not shivving), 59. Scharnhorst and dead horse flats (cairn), 60. going berserk about encirclement, 61. the reasons for treason, 62. Cardinal cardinals (I'm such a card) and Duv the dove (type of pigeon- a pig that flies), 63. Mindszenty's mind, 64. NorKor (North Korea), 65. BM, beatlemania, 66. BS about black studies, 67. calm communists, 68. Roswell and Cozumel, 69. Cold War ends (1991): Soviet Union "dissolved", (formal act of the Supreme Soviet, not nazi), 70. Marcy in Marseille, 71. armory of the gendarmerie, 72. fly swatters and no-fly zones, 73. Iraq my brain for a solution, 74. Bam earthquake (2003, Iran, 26k xx) (that's the actual name, from the city of Bam), 75. Sumatran summers, 76. Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami (2004, 220k+ xx), suing NAMI (national alliance on mental illness), 77. fine, finally.

December 27

GR: 1. circus dwarf on a trampoline accidentally jumps into the nearby open mouth of a hippo (I'm not making this up), to thunderous applause (he suffocated before extraction), TH: 2. Burgers in Burgos, 3. Charles Darwin or lose, 4. Ethel on ether, 5. Doniphan's dolphins, 6. Crystal Palace, communist party, child pornography, cyberpunk, cerebral palsy, colored people, 7. wicked Wiccan witches from Wichita, 8. barbershop quartet, and burger queen, 9. burying Barry, and James M. Barrie, eating berries, 10. Leon Trotsky and galloping Gertie and Lope de Vega, 11. Dave, UC Davis, and the Davis Cup, 12. Christ the king, and King JC (Juan Carlos), 13. Hafizullah Amin, what is the meaning of this?, 14. cagey KGB, 15. just kidding, Johannes Kepler, 16. Sir George Cayley and Paul Klee, 17. Louis Pasteur and the (godly!) germ theory of disease, 18. Sydney Greenstreet and the yellow brick road, 19. Dr. Marlene Dietrich, and manifest destiny, 20. Oscar Levant, and Oscar the grouch in the levant?, 21. Walter Norris and Chuck Norris, 22. John Amos and Horace Andy, 23. Leslie Maguire, Mark Maguire, Tom McGuirk, and less lies, 24. Cokie Roberts and Pepsi Paloma, and cup o' Joe, 25. G-D, Gerard Depardieu, W: 26. Hagia Sophia, Holy Spirit, high school, 27. Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur (cd and lp), 28. A six-pack and Tupac and the apocalypse, 29. remonstrating demons at demonstrations, 30. Bono and the battle of New Orleans, 31. Eva Braun, lava, and avalanche, 32. Jana Gana Mana and manna from heaven, and mana, too, 33. CPU and the Great Poland Uprising, 34. cats from Yekaterinoslav, 35. killing kulaks, and the kkk, 36. Cornflake Girl and Regina Jonas, 37. killed ya in Kelja, 38. Dutch East Indies dies, 39. slapped in San Luis Potosí, 40. Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship (mock crazy), 41. Palestinian palace, 42. library in Bucharest, 43. candy shop in Sweden, 44. pogrom in Bagram, 45. Billy Wright (loyalist), so wrong, 46. magnets, guitars, and magnetars, 47. Bibi assassinated? No, Benazir Bhutto, 48. Dadaism in Mombasa Kenya, 49. Aryan humanitarians, 50. Ashura and the Israelite tribe of Asher.

December 28

GR: 1. Of Dennis Wilson, beach boy, Mike Love said, "he was very suicidal about life. it was amazing he lived as long as he did with the things he did to his body", TH: 2. mike love, my glove; hands, H and S; piano, P and O, 3. impressive empress, 4. Thomas Paine in Spain with William Hurt, 5. soon it will be noon and the goons will vote for Calhoun, 6. dazed knights, 7. Chuy and Chewbacca on choo-choo train, 8. King of Pain and king of Spain, 9. flour, flowers, and hours of ow, 10. Sir Thomas Bouch, ouch!, 11. MSG, Madison Square Garden, 12. 100k xx in 1908 Italy (earthquake and tsunami), 13. Sun Yat-Sen and Keith Moon, and Ringo Starr, 14. Martial law and Marsha's rules of the house, 15. "Rock" music is coined by 'Good Rockin' Tonight' by Wynonie Harris (1947), 16. yahoos across the Yalu river, 17. BP and Boris Pasternak, 18. Vaclav Havel looks good in mauve, 19. check on the Czechs, and the awkward Slovakians, 20. Vatican and Israel sign a formal document "recognizing" each other (I knew I've seen you before!), 21. birth of the film industry (1895), with the 'Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory' shown at the Grand Cafe in Paris, 22. Willful Wilson, and headstrong Louis Armstrong, and persistent sisters, 23. Philip Wilson Steer and Emma Cattle, 24. Cliff Arquette eats Clif bars, 25. Earl Hines, eh?, 26. Lew Ayres in the Windy City, 27. Sam Levenson and samsara, unleavened bread (leaven sin?), 28. Dame Maggie Smith and Maggie May and Microsoft, 29. Denzel Washington in your den, W: 30. papal conclaves are so p.c., and Pablo Casals, too, 31. what was Majorian's major in college?, 32. aspic, alembic, and Alaric, 33. Devan from Dvin Armenia, 34. doing arabesques in a Romanesque church, 35. Oh no! emperor Hanazono is in the zone!, 36. wrath of the Marathas, 37. King Taksin considers attacking a sin, 38. long Yonge (street), 39. seminal Seminoles, 40. Adele in Adelaide, 41. Iowa is named after the Ioway people (once part of the Ho-Chunk Confederation), 42. Tay Bridge and Father Te, 43. Bombing Bombay and exploding the PLO and blasting the oblast and blowing up Uppsala Sweden, and killing in Kildare (which actually means 'church of the oak' in Irish: Gaeltacht speak Gaeilge), death in Death Valley, execution in Exeter, meeting your end in Indiana, and murder in Mordor, 44. X-rays and raising your ex, 45. streetcars and sidewalk bikes, and pathology off the beaten path, 46. I commonly use cumin, 47. a fussy hussy in Ulussy, 48. Ortona (Italy) or Daytona (Florida)?, 49. baling out of Baling Malaya, 50. sudden death overtime (and SD), 51. Muriel Siebert and Muriel's wedding, 52. sss, satan the snake hisses at the selective service system, 53. Newcastle and a possible chess promotion, 54. issues in Mogadishu, 55. Karimata strait and kalamata olives, 56. (strait of) Otranto ain't Toronto.

December 29

GR: 1. natural food expert dies of stomach ailment, TH: 2. Pain in Spain and suffering in Suffolk, and agony in Agra, 3. Joy in Mudville, Joy Harjo, and Joy Division, 4. happy hippies, blessed with bliss, 5. Lovelock NV and Loveland OH, 6. Joy dish soap and Cheer detergent and Harmony snacks, 7. drugs are a drag, 8. hello, high, 9. drunk on drink, purple drank, 10. Becky and Thomas Becket, 11. who's in charge of electrocution?, 12. Franciscans in San Francisco, 13. Thomas Pynchon and Pocahontas, James K. Polk, 14. John Smith, s.j., 15. parlous parliament, 16. monuments, enlightenment, document, parliament, mincing words, and chocolate mints, 17. YMCA and workin for MCA, 18. Emma Snodgrass, bod/ass, (pants in public! scandalous), 19. Chief Big Foot wasn't a Sasquatch or Yeti, 20. Thomas Edison (education? get on with it), 21. SARS in the South African Republic, 22. Shooting film and Western Rust (actual gun shooting discharge accident), 23. censuring censorship, 24. do you trust the antitrust legislation?, a scout is trustworthy, James Worthy, Wordsworth, 25. Dr. Spock and Charles Goodyear (vulcanized rubber), 26. Andrew Johnson, AJ, apple juice, and cup of Joe, 27. William Gladstone, can you smell what the Rock is cooking?, 28. John Voight and Coit tower, and Reuters, 29. Marianne Faithful and Angel Pagan, 30. dancin' with Ted Danson, sitting with Sitting Bull, standing with Stan, running with Run DMC, and sprinting to my Sprinter van, 31. Yvonne Elliman's elephant, and Tracey Ullman, ah hell, man, W: 32. TBA, Archbishop Thomas Becket, 33. Amedeo Modigliani and battle of Garigliano, god on meds, 34. Powhatan and those spiky German WWI helmets, 35. head-butting Beavis, 36. Anna's van in Savannah GA, 37. monks, keys, monkeys, monarchy, mona, ark, our key, and Kharkiv, 38. Ashby and Ashtabula river, and Atascadero State Hospital, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, 39. Lakota and Joseph's coat of many colors, several coats of paint, 40. soccer in Mon-GOL!-ia, 41. melting pot versus India/Pakistan religious nationalism, 42. honk if you like your consti-toot-ion, 43. firebombing ain't water balloons, 44. Vaclav Havel, very happy listening to Van Halen, 45. resigning office, an attitude of resignation (sigh), and sign language, 46. Turkish in Kishinev, 47. Malala in Guatemala, 48. apology? for 1M+ xx Cambodian genocide? are you serious? so now the Khmer Rouge see the light? all is forgiven? geezus christ, 49. vulgarity in Volgograd.

December 30

GR: 1. Grigory Yefimovich Novykh, (aka Rasputin) assassinated age 44 (cyanided, castrated, stabbed, shot, bound, drowned, exposed!) (and raped, for good measure), TH: 2. vulva in a Volvo, 3. concerts held (Sinatra, say), sinners helled (tautology, whatever leads to hell is sin), 4. Gadsden purchase, God's den, 5. CS Monitor (news weekly) and USS Monitor (ironclad), 6. Pirates of Penzance, pop (dad, soda, bubble wrap), 7. Hanuman's monarchy, 8. Edwin Hubble, eh?, 9. milk, lactation, Milky Way, galactic, and candy in space (Milky Way, mars bars, astro pop, starburst, moon pie), with a Sol beer, 10. Winston Churchill and Wintun Indians (native Americans), 11. debut during day, nightingale by night, 12. Roy Rogers at Royaneh, 13. excuse me, I have to go fire a Ballistic Missile, 14. CIA, corrupt and increasingly authoritarian, 15. Captain Hook with an iron fist, 16. a cold, nude rabbi? no, Burhanuddin Rabbani!, 17. Rudy and Rudyard, 18. Guggenheim and Guglielmo (Marconi) and lady gaga, 19. goofy and gooks, 20. you can't hide from hideous Hideki, 21. LP Hartley and Gary Hart, 22. Sir Carol Reed and Reed College, 23. et tu, Tracey Ullman?, W: 24. this just in! the Code of Justinian is in effect, 25. monsters from Munster, 26. me, underneath Meath (meth?), 27. below Buffalo, 28. wawa pedal, and Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi, 29. Shawnee and Wounded Knee and the knights who say "nee!", 30. HH Stephenson, the origin of the term "hat-trick" (3 achievements in 1 match), 31. Zulu zoo, 32. Iroquois Theater fire (Chicago, 1903) kills 605+, 33. mystic with a stick for the missus, 34. SD, sinister? in sister? sit down, standing up for what's right, 35. Indian independence, industry, and indecency, 36. Luqa Malta and Luka, by Suzanne Vega, 37. cheery in Algeria, 38. passenger ferry deaths (no pfd's?), 39. do you know the Wei? (river), 40. afgh (no bcde), 41. Kinshasa, Mombasa, Lhasa, NASA, la raza, and mi casa es su casa.

December 31

GR: 1. Ricky Nelson killed in an airplane fire; (said to subsist almost completely on a diet of cheeseburgers and snickers bars), TH: 2. Mozart's art, 3. salsa from Salzburg, 4. polishing the Polish, abolishing bowling balls, 5. Gr, gold rush, 6. QVC and Queen Victoria, 7. No man is an island, except the Isle of Man, Vicki and Vicksburg, MS, 8. Iolani Palace and Loni Anderson, 9. Honolulu and the Han chinese, Lulu lemon, 10. happiness and tears in Ha wa ii, 11. Tim with thyme time, 12. Nobel prize, bells, nobility, and bel air, 13. Auld Lang Syne (old long since, for the sake of old times) and ALS, (Lou Gehrig's disease), 14. Breathalyzer, "drunkometer" invented by dr. Rolla N. Harger, 15. anal waddle at Guadalcanal, 16. Axis powers, not axe sis, 17. fishy officials that eat fish, fishing for men, with goatees (ghoti), 18. are you gonna go to Ghana?, 19. Gabriel (Gabe) and Mugabe, 20. smallpox and large pox, big gifts come in small packages, a box of pox, a bag of agh, 21. Anthony Hopkins said, "Nothing is too good to be true, nothing is too wonderful to happen, and nothing is too wonderful to ask", 22. a tall drink of water, a can of man, 23. vampire at the Jacobite rebellion, 24. Marsellus Wallace and George Cornwallis, 25. JT, John Thompson, invented "tommy gun", 26. a piece of Matisse, Edwin Meese signs a lease, cease feeding the geese Reese's pieces, peace! niece, at least the beast gets to feast, 27. Allen the alien, Ellen Trainor the extraterrestrial (E.T.), 28. Odetta in Odessa, debt and decibels, 29. the crew of the Crucible, 30. Sarah Miles and smiles, 31. Ben Kingsley at Burger King, Burj Khalifa, W: 32. Alans and Sue (Suebians) and Martha (and the vandellas) invade Gaul, 33. Larry from Palermo, 34. hiking with vikings, 35. library in Reading (East Anglia), 36. Anaheim and Ingelheim, 37. orcas of majorca and minorca, 38. coral, choral, corral, and Carl, 39. ants in your pants make you dance in France, 40. tsar is a star, 41. Pat the patriarch, 42. edict to read your dictionary, 43. Tim plays ball in Baltimore, 44. learning grammar in Gramercy Park, 45. Ottawa and crashing your car, 46. KB toys and Karl Benz, 47. Menlo Park and Willie Loman, 48. sex on the USS Essex, 49. commissioner, on a mission to cum, 50. Parents on the Barents Sea, 51. Wehrmacht and where, wear mocked, 52. HST, Harry S. Truman, hostilities, hissed, 53. ZZZ, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Zaire, 54. Rhodesia, ROZ, DROC, 55. Muhammadu Buhari and Hari Krishnas, 56. Grozny isn't in Bosnia, 57. Kandahar and Honda car, 58. Excuse me, I have to observe a Blue Moon, 59. I'll have Samoa that, 60. take a toke in Tokelau!, 61. Shanghai and Shang-bye, Dubai and do hello, 62. wooing Han in Wuhan, 63. Jess' mess, bless the goddess.

Why I like Japan (Nippon)

Sumo and sushi, aikido and taiko (Sue and Ike!)

I like ike (Eisenhower), spike and mike (s and m), mike and ikes

Buddhism and Shinto (and other b.s.)

Nature and Culture (the beauty!) (mt. fuji, trees, architecture, etc.)

ninjas, karate, samurai, the tea ceremony, rock garden

ikebana, bonsai, origami, the inlaid wooden boxes, calligraphy

Ceramics, pottery, manga, anime, (everything, really)

-and the pacifist constitution (sigh)-

I'm gonna kill you - because I'm tired tired tired tired tired Jesse

David is crying Jesse

you are somewhat of a god

on and on and on

summary, Mary's sum?

reality is a word that should always be used in quotes

-my life with the thrill kill cult lyric

reality is all the god there ever is -adidam, Adi Da

reality is a persistent illusion -Einstein

is anything objective? like physics? or is even physic subjective?

matter meets antimatter: poof! neither exists

particles and antiparticles

virtual particles? they don't exist?

light is both a wave and particle? wave hello, and slap and tickle

there was no "before" the Big Bang? because space and time

are part of the same thing, spacetime?

I don't get any of it

whatever, nevermind -Nirvana (unless someone can explain it to me)

is there a god? (that isn't a role)? am I NOT god?

I'm willing to submit, but not by force

a higher power, that doesn't lord it over me

I'm not trying to dominate everyone (or anyone)

a deity among many (Adam!)

having fun, seeking truth, and virtue

which is good, and therefore God

only God is good

(so somebody needs to step up,

because I'm atheist!)

you dig? am I clear? grok?

HP: higher power, Harry Potter, Hewlett Packard, hannibal ack, hospital priest, high priestess, horsepower, and Harrold Pinter, high performance, health plan, headphones, highway patrol, Himachal Pradesh, hydrogen peroxide, honors program, Hunter's Point, health practitioner, hoi polloi, Hiroshima Prefecture, etc.

buddhism

buddha found truth, enlightenment, the path, the godlike power to

overcome suffering

extinguish dukkha

achieve bliss

become enlightened

attain nirvana

(but wasn't himself a god, or posit a buddhist deity)

make me one with everything

- what the buddhist monk said to the hot dog vendor

now everybody's me

- dead milkmen

if you want something done right, do it yourself

god as the perfection process

we become what we pretend to be

reinvent yourself, as reality unfolds

don't be bad, be good, better, best, perfect

feeding the angels, starving the demons

perhaps it is better to seek growth than perfection

no time like the present

here and now

love

pdf, pfd, pvc, pfc

portable document format, personal flotation device, poly vinyl chloride, Private First Class

roles, masks, eminence front

sex, sexual orientation, gender (3 different things)

Bill Maher, Pahim, (neuter Newt Gingrich)

paw-lidays, paw-sitivity, Charles Barkley

tutus, mumus, yo-yo's, tic-tacs, Mimi, Bibi, St. Francis of Assisi,

Sirhan Sirhan, Boutros-Boutros, Sing Sing, assassin, church

Buddha in Omaha, Tobit's obit, bobitting a hobbit, NASA in Manassa, inventing advent,

increasing the peace and upping the pace, eating breakfast faster, an emphasis on Memphis, cheery Chiricahua, sad sadists, Sadie and Sadhguru

concrete ideas, written in cement, written in stone

the Hawkeye state and the Eyeish tribe

LBJ and tulips, GMC and George C Marshall, defeat or defend, complete and complex

meat and abortion are equally heinous, imo

not meat per se, which is often delicious - but the meat industry, which is evil and cruel, (and responsble for VAST amounts of suffering, in the name of profit)

my beef isn't with carnivores, it's with the suffering, savagery

v's

he's schizophrenic and sane

your law is so obscenely real

you r a doctor all

you ARE Allah, is why they're laughing

we know what you have: it's called sick ME

making a mess

warring angels, better angels

good evil? just war? cruel to be kind? god made hell?

not doing evil is a form of good

(all that is necessary to be God, in fact!)