Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Ball Park – Oops, they’re at it again!
Yes, I know, I did say that we were done with the “Who’s on first?” Skit – but this page is sort of an example of what can be done by reusing bits and pieces from the previous 3 pages… Yep, unlike Exacto knives an’ Rubber Cement – Computers are so handy when it come to re-editing and repurposing things! Unfortunately, they’re no help at all with the actual humor! In this case, I was attempting to milk a bit more fun out of the basic misunderstanding, while exploiting one of those odd bits of trivia about the skit… An’ if it loses you somewhere along the way – Hey, remember, it’s all Free folks!!
Also today in history: 69 years ago, in 1944, British, Canadian and American troops were storming ashore in Normandy on the Sword, Gold, Juno, Omaha & Utah Beaches…
or 71 years ago in 1942, the Battle of Midway was still underway – by this point in the battle, the Japanese carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu had been sunk – while the Yorktown would be torpedoed and sink tonight…
It seems all Madness now – Why were we all so intent on killing one another? Within just a few years later, Japan, Germany and the US would become fast Allies – couldn’t we have worked out our differences with less violence somehow? Of course, the madness continues today, just the names and countries have changed, but people are still dying and it still seems so futile!!
The smartest hero in comics and pulp, Doc Savage didn’t have an answer. In war he took one day at a time, even with all of his power to invent.
In a very old book, there is a promise that we can turn rain on and off in deserts like a faucet. Enough science exists that we can see how to do that today. But given that, will evil still flow like water to another place on the globe? Or with clean hearts facing it (like Cap’s), will it have met its match? Will like my father, people share a beer over old war stories, with the very people that he fought. Only if we allow ourselves to see a common humanity expressed in doing so.
Well said. In war, military tactics lag behind technology … and in human relations, public morality lags behind ideals. If we can learn to admit and transcend our old monkey-band instincts and accept each other as family, perhaps we can learn to use our technology to preserve the planet … and ourselves.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Ball Park – Oops, they’re at it again!
Yes, I know, I did say that we were done with the “Who’s on first?” Skit – but this page is sort of an example of what can be done by reusing bits and pieces from the previous 3 pages… Yep, unlike Exacto knives an’ Rubber Cement – Computers are so handy when it come to re-editing and repurposing things! Unfortunately, they’re no help at all with the actual humor! In this case, I was attempting to milk a bit more fun out of the basic misunderstanding, while exploiting one of those odd bits of trivia about the skit… An’ if it loses you somewhere along the way – Hey, remember, it’s all Free folks!!
Also today in history: 69 years ago, in 1944, British, Canadian and American troops were storming ashore in Normandy on the Sword, Gold, Juno, Omaha & Utah Beaches…
or 71 years ago in 1942, the Battle of Midway was still underway – by this point in the battle, the Japanese carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu had been sunk – while the Yorktown would be torpedoed and sink tonight…
It seems all Madness now – Why were we all so intent on killing one another? Within just a few years later, Japan, Germany and the US would become fast Allies – couldn’t we have worked out our differences with less violence somehow? Of course, the madness continues today, just the names and countries have changed, but people are still dying and it still seems so futile!!
The smartest hero in comics and pulp, Doc Savage didn’t have an answer. In war he took one day at a time, even with all of his power to invent.
In a very old book, there is a promise that we can turn rain on and off in deserts like a faucet. Enough science exists that we can see how to do that today. But given that, will evil still flow like water to another place on the globe? Or with clean hearts facing it (like Cap’s), will it have met its match? Will like my father, people share a beer over old war stories, with the very people that he fought. Only if we allow ourselves to see a common humanity expressed in doing so.
Well said. In war, military tactics lag behind technology … and in human relations, public morality lags behind ideals. If we can learn to admit and transcend our old monkey-band instincts and accept each other as family, perhaps we can learn to use our technology to preserve the planet … and ourselves.