Two of the Apollo 17 astronauts, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, were the last humans to walk on the lunar surface, while their mission mate Ronald Evans orbited the moon in the command module. At least part of that history is to be added to now as the four crew members of the Artemis II mission hurtle toward the moon, escaping the grasp of earth’s gravity for the first time since the flight of Apollo 17.
Tomorrow’s inauguration encourages many, myself included, to hope that the abuses and degradation of the past four years can be undone and things moved in a more promising direction. But there will be tremendous opposition, already begun, from the side that doesn’t realize it lost, and many things will take Congressional action, never an easy thing.
The characters Tweedledee and Tweedledum came out of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Later, in 1871, they were transformed into Tweedledee and Sweedledum by the famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast, to parody the corrupt Democratic Tammany Hall politicians, headed by William “Boss” Tweed and Peter “Brains” Sweeny, who ran New York as their personal …
In the past week, two influential former Democrats threw their support to the candidacy of Donald Trump for President, citing the dangers that the Democratic Party and its newly coronated standard bearer, Kamala Harris, pose to America’s democracy, as well as to world peace and security.
Many children, myself included, often heard the refrain, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. In my case, it was part of my parents’ efforts to calm me in the face of daily schoolyard bullying to which I was subjected in elementary school. I might not have believed it then, but after Saturday’s events, if we didn’t already know better, we do now.