Disraeli-portrait

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Disraeli’s Wit

Benjamin Disraeli(1804-1881) the outsider by sheer will and his wit made to the top. On his way he had to demolish quite a few and cut many to size. He was a dangerous adversary in a verbal duel. Here are some samples: on Sir. Robert Peel ‘The Rt. Hon’ble Gentleman’s smile is like the silver [...]

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Unto the End

‘Let us talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs,’ (Richard II-Shakespeare) An epitaph according to Irvin S. Cobb(1876-1944) is a ‘belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been permanently discontinued’. I shall cite some epitaphs here. Here lies Ezekiel Aikle Aged 102 The Good Die Young. Then you can be sure your friend [...]

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Origin of Olympic Games

An earthworm was run over by a passing cart and its mate was heartbroken. “No more I shall turn up the earth; let the earth go to hell for all I care.” Zeus descended at that moment to ask the earthworm to take back his curse. He refused and said,” I can’t. I’m too heartbroken!” [...]

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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

A Cheshire Grin… (…The grin is a shorthand of reality of the cat.) “In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order”. Carl Jung So true; I call it anomaly of matter. Laws of Nature in our cosmos allow light as a wave and as particle. In Newtonian model while studying [...]

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A great love story

Humayun (1508-1556) the Moghul emperor was, in comparison with other emperors in Moghul galaxy too humane and emotionally high strung to be an effective monarch. His life was bedeviled by his struggle to keep his ambitious brother Kamran in place. His father’s words must have rung in his mind ‘Do not harm your brothers even [...]

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The Last Time I saw Sheol

Sheol is the place you visit if you want to keep your misanthropy sharpest. Man is such a funny animal who when given a religious persuasion instantly turns himself into a fool. I never thought I would see it again but I could not refuse the Man Upstairs. Well it happened this way. The Ancient [...]

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World of Science-2

Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) Discoverer, Nobel Laureate Dr.Fleming discovered penicillin while working in an old laboratory. A mold spore which was blown in through the open window, landed on a culture plate he was about to examine. This led to his remarkable discovery. Some years later he was led through a research lab which was [...]

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Oh Irresponsible Me!

School District 202 in Plainfield, Illinois, joins other school districts across the nation in banning “look-alike drugs”: candy cigarettes, fake chewing tobacco, non-alcoholic beer, and oregano. Various reasons are cited for the ban, one being that candy cigarettes can possibly lead to real cigarette use, that they send an inappropriate presmoking message. Secondly, that the [...]

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Idiot’s Delight

I came across a news item that in the southern ocean sperm whales counteract with the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Their feces do the job. Our carbon footprint on land somewhere along the line must deal with it: do we consider ourselves blessed that sperm whales out there have in them to keep our [...]

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