B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for January 13, 2019

If it’s daylight, why are you holding a candle?

Don’t worry, you won’t be around for it. You still have to go through the extinction of the Dinosaurs.

I guess he hasn’t heard the red giant theory.

He is Diogenes of Sinope. He is looking for an honest man.

It’s better to burn out than it is to rust

The flame should get larger until in engulfs the bug.

That’s quite a leap in science: from inventing the match to planet annihilation.

The Late Great George Carlin once said: “The Planet is fine! The people are f*cked!”

Carlin’s comment has no more accurate application than as a description of this country today. And Buttercup will continue to stir the pot with his whims and fancies. We are fortunate in our constitution. He can fire any and all of his appointees, aides, and advisors, but not those he would like to fire. To him, congress is an impediment. Can one imagine the chaos should he be able on his own to convene a constitutional convention? One trembles at the thought.

Nope.

Just concentrate on making your own light every day and worry about the end of the world when it happens.

The flame burns out in everything….

Instead of spinning your hands, wrap the string from a small bow around stick, it will spin faster with less effort ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzIysPChca4

We have time even if in the first billion years the luminosity of the Sun will rise enough to cause us problems. Today we have done the temperature rising all on our very own. Isn’t that special?

Diogenes held up a lantern and looked around, hoping to find an honest man. They’re scarce as hens’ teeth. … In 5 billion years the Sun will grow until we go Fsssss…..

Son, the sun is going out. Prepare. Buy a sweater.