Hi Doc Sarvis and AU:

Most unworthy recipient.

What has he written?

Bill Maher is like "TV Soma" for the Jane Vassars and Billy Birkenstocks of America.

This arrogant TV tumor has amassed a mega-fortune for himself while pretending to be "one of us;" he's done a wonderful job of deflecting and distracting from real issues affecting the American people -- like his nefarious counterpart Joe Rogaine.

Morning Doc Sarvis:

Thank you.

Finished re-reading Of Mice and Men last night.

John Steinbeck must have been a great story teller in person.

Now I'm deciding between Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury, 1962) or Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece (W.H.D. Rouse, 1957).

After some more coffee and a smoke, I'll finally decide.

Thanks, I'll check my library for it. I have a few John Steinbeck compendiums which might have it.

Thanks, Marine.

Too many books, not enough time.

Thanks again, Marine, I don't have that book.

I have Stranger in a Strange Land awaiting me, where Robert Heinlein introduced us to the concept of "grok."

Off to dinner, wine, and cards during these awful times that trouble men's souls.

Sigh.

And the unworthy guttersnipe Bill Maher should be thrown down a well along with his fellow oligarch Joe Rogaine.

A deep well.

Many people hold in esteem The Great Gatsby as the "great American novel;" others contend that acclaim should go to The Grapes of Wrath.

I go with John Steinbeck.