"With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain." (Von Schiller)

.....I've recently set up a "Trust" called "Norman and Rhoda Ross Revocable Trust."  You'd think I know something about Trusts, but I know little or nothing about them--or it, except that it is supposed to protect your assets from Probate. And I'm not certain about that either!  The attorney says that I should put my money into the trust.  Am I supposed to get a large bag and dump the cash into it?  That's about all I know about trusts.  Now where can I get a bag large enough for all the money I own? RH+ has a lot of bags that she got from Publix, our super market. Perhaps one of them will do.

.....At the moment, if I have a moment, I've completed all the research on the Revolutionary War, and I am ready to write the musical I will be working on.  I will run through all the "generations" since the beginning of America--their history, their war casualties, and their music.  So far I have "Yankee Doodle" as the song Washington's army loved the most.  Actually, they stole it from King George's British army.  This is the doodle with the feather in the cap called "macaroni"--not James Cagney's "Yankee Doodle Dandy", two different lyrics.  I don't know if I will ever finish writing this musical or see it performed.  Time will tell. Oh, yes, I've always wondered what a "doodle" is. My research cleared that up; it refers to a "simpleton".  The British sang it with derision, but the rebels enjoyed singing it about themselves before they got some fancy uniforms.

 

.....I'm not sure if this story has gone around the globe--the story of the killing of nine African-Americans in the church they were attending in South Carolina this past week.  They were all shot to death by a young man with hatred in his heart and a gun in his hand.  Now who is saying that it is "people who kill people" and not guns who kill people?  How many stupid people are there in this country?  And around the world for that matter?  Stupidity is running rampant on our planet, which indicates, according to Darwin, that in the evolutionary process, we humanoids have not evolved sufficiently; to the point where we are not beheading each other. However, Jefferson evolved OK; he wrote that "all men are created equal"; except for Blacks, Gays, Trans-genders, Lesbians, migrants, and the poor.