The Face Of Good And Evil

To search out and reveal those who were not wholly devout was good -

while for common folk to criticize holy members of the clergy was evil.
But that was in the past; that was history; was Christian doctrinal truth.

Faces of good and evil are not fixed in human affairs. Time reverses that which was but yesterday, so apparently unchangeable.

Two are one.

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Tucson Weather Today


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TRIVIA

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On this date, May 24 in 1844, In a demonstration witnessed by members of Congress, American inventor Samuel F.B. Morse dispatched a telegraph message from the U.S. Capitol to Alfred Vail at a railroad station in Baltimore, Maryland. The message -- "What Hath God Wrought?" -- was telegraphed back to the Capitol a moment later by Vail. The question was taken from the Bible (Numbers 23:23).

Just a decade after the first line opened, more than 20,000 miles of telegraph cable crisscrossed the country. The rapid communication it enabled greatly aided American expansion, making railroad travel safer as it provided a boost to business conducted across the great distances of a growing United States.

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WORD FOR TODAY

carnage
noun
-  Massive slaughter, as in war; a massacre.
-  Corpses, especially of those killed in battle.
-  The flesh of slain animals or men
synonyms
bloodshed, slaughter, massacre, butchery and bloodbath.

Carnage is one of the most powerful words in the language. But already TV reporters are watering down the word by using it to describe the building debris left by a tornado or hurricane, even when no bodies are present.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS


Gary Burghoff
(born May 24, 1943)

Gary Burghoff is an American actor, known for playing Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and the character Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly in the M*A*S*H movie and TV series.

Priscilla Presley
(born May 24, 1945)

Priscilla Presley is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the ex-wife of singer Elvis Presley, and the mother of singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley.

Bob Dylan
(born May 24, 1941)

 Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, music producer, artist, and writer. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest.

A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" radically altered the parameters of popular music in 1965. His recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.

Rosanne Cash
(born May 24, 1955)

Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country music icon Johnny Cash.

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I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.
--Charles Rangel