DIRECT DESCENDANTS? - comic George Carlin and Charles Darwin.

   

Dang ... well, why not stop in for a look at news items outside the headlines, in the arts and sciences; foreign news that generates little notice in the US media and ....well, just plain whimsy.....    

At a political gathering in the past, I saw a familiar face, and was about to shake hands with one public official ... when it turned out to be another (an anatomy of a Separated at Birth if there ever was one) ....

OLDER-YOUNGER BROTHERS? - former Alabama governor Don Siegelman and (alas, again) soon-to-be former congressman Brad Miller of North Carolina.

   

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In five years, working diligently with my daughters and soon-to-be-ex-wife, we filled the basement and garage with stuff.

I'm selling my house so I have to clean it out. Today my daughters and I started the task. In six hours we found: six boxes of stuffed animals; twelve boxes of books; five family Bibles; ten boxes of photographs ranging from 19th century daguerreotypes to 21st century snapshots; two boxes filled with unused picture frames; and one full of unused greeting cards.

And that's just the beginning.  

If you've been to the movies lately ...... you're not actually seeing double. Or are you? ....

SEPARATED at BIRTH - film stars Guy Pearce ("LA Confidential", "The King's Speech") and Mark Wahlberg ("Boogie Nights", "The Fighter").

   

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There must be fifty ways to leave your lover. - Paul Simon

Some relationships end before they reach until death do us part.  Sometimes they end after a month, sometimes after 30 years. They end when we're young, they end when we're old.

One way or another, it's happened to all of us.  

The music world can offer a fascinating look at times ...

FATHER-DAUGHTER? - musicians Edgar Winter and Lady Gaga.

   

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When I was a child, Memorial Day weekend was a highly-anticipated holiday in my neighborhood.  It was, of course, the unofficial beginning to summer-the last long weekend of the school year, when those long sunny days of freedom were so close we could almost taste them.

It was a weekend steeped in ritual.  On Sunday morning, my mom and dad load the car with the tools necessary to complete the task.  There would be empty jugs for water, a large screwdriver for prying the vase out of the prison of clay and roots that held it tight,  dowels and a mallet for securing the plant, and towels for the eventual clean-up.  Our first stop would be the local greenhouse where we would pick up two plants.  Chrysanthemums.  Why we never bought cut flowers to put in the vases, I don't know.  One of those questions that will remain unanswered now that my dad is gone, because I neglected to ask while he was still alive.

Now I've seen everything ........

DIRECT DESCENDANTS? - Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman ......

   

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