The Writer's Life 10/12 - Lines

The Sunday NY Post is, as usual, filled with interesting articles. Unfortunately, almost all the topics have been done to death. What more can be said about Obama’s presidency? How can anyone be surprised by the actions of  NYC mayor DeBlasio’s administration, given his well-known leftist sentiments? As for the Sayreville H.S. football hazing scandal -- why is anyone surprised when society has pushed the envelope of acceptable behavior to extremes? In an article on academic research, Naomi Schaefer Riley, cites a recent informal poll that explains why a lot of it isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. A show of hands at a gathering revealed a ratio of 267/1 liberals to conservatives. Riley believes it is even higher, as many conservatives choose to keep their beliefs hidden in fear of retaliation. In her op-ed piece, Peggy Noonan takes former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to task for trying in his new book, Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace, to separate Obama from other Democrats, particularly the Clintons. Would Hillary have governed much differently than Obama has? My guess is she would have made the same economic moves. I sense she would have been wiser in terms of security. Her detractors would have been labeled anti-woman rather than racists. I hadn’t feared nationwide disaster in America since the 70’s. I hope current circumstances prove to be a similar false alarm.  

It seems the only people who now celebrate Columbus Day are Italian-Americans and conservatives. I ask his detractors this: Has any great civilization come into existence without extensive bloodshed?

The floating book shop had its usual Sunday visit from B.S. Bob. He claims to have at least 30 projects up and running. I asked if they were "Treatments," a term I've heard in film and on TV, which I assume is an outline. "That's all I do," said Bob. I related a dream I had last night in which a softball umpire was the reincarnation of Alexander the Great. Seated in the dugout, I comforted a friend who was returning from his time at bat: "At least you can tell your grandkids you were called out on strikes by Alexander the Great." "The pitch bounced right behind home plate!" "Maybe he remembers you from a previous lifetime and was exacting revenge." Who knows what demented thoughts lurk in the minds of men? Anyway. Bob mentioned the lines of Nazca in southern Peru, which I'd never heard of, and which he believes are ancient landing fields of alien spacecraft. There is no mention of that at the Wiki page. It states that it is believed the "geolyphs" were created by a now defunct civilization between 400 and 650 AD. It is theorized that they may have been dug for irrigation or religious purposes. A lot of it is designs, such as the monkey, pictured here:

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