Spring thoughts

Carl Linne or Carolus Linnaeus describes ‘spring fever’. Note male surrenders to female.
"Love comes even to t he plants. Males and females...hold their nuptials...showing by their sexual organs which are males, which females. The flowers’ leaves serve as a bridal bed, which the Creator has so gloriously arranged, adorned with such noble bed curtains and perfumed with so many soft scents that the bridegroom with his bride might there celebrate their nuptials with so much the greater solemnity. When the bed has thus been made ready, then is the time for the bridegroom to embrace his beloved bride and surrender himself to her."

Where does man fit into the scheme of life? In the domain eucarya (characterized by a nucleus, excluding only bacteria), the kingdom animalia, phylum, chordata, subphylum vertebrata, class mammalia, order primates, family hominidae, genus homo and species sapiens.

To homo sapiens, President Teddy Roosevelt said: "Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity."

Consider our big O and his associates. Our big O lied about his reason to avoid the traditional Washington Gridiron Roast, an annual affair given by the Press Corps. Our big O consciously means the opposite of what he says. Our big O is the master of misdirection. His associates in media and politics run interference for him.

The game of rating Presidents can be based upon differing criteria: 1. leadership in tough times, 2. the consequences of actions performed or future actions put into motion, 3. devotion to the Constitution, 4. devotion to the good of the country or 5. moral character.

I say our O has perverted all of the above criteria before his first 100 days in office have elapsed. I say he should be ranked now rather than later as a failure.

Give me a good man with the accents on good and man - any time.