@jobu
that to all future "19" columns.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU1kTuVSUOw]

@Lookout
the year of the dog. In the west, and most especiallt the US, every year is the year of the dogma.

and a happy b'day to Copernicus. the revolutionary that suggested the Earth was revolving around the sun. His fate was better than Galileo's.

The refusal to accept science and evidence is still with us. I had to revisit the story...

Copernicus received a Frombork canon cathedral appointment, holding onto the job for the rest of his life. It was a fortunate stroke: The canon's position afforded him the opportunity to fund the continuation of his studies for as long as he liked.

At the University of Bologna, he met astronomer Domenico Maria Novara—a fateful encounter, as the two began exchanging astronomical ideas and observations, ultimately becoming housemates. Historian Edward Rosen described the relationship as follows: "In establishing close contact with Novara, Copernicus met, perhaps for the first time in his life, a mind that dared to challenge the authority of [astrologist Claudius Ptolemy] the most eminent ancient writer in his chosen fields of study."

Scholars believe that by around 1508, Copernicus had begun developing his own celestial model, a heliocentric planetary system, which places the sun, rather than the earth, as the center of the solar system. He wasn't the first to suggest the idea, in the third century B.C., ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos had identified the sun as a central unit orbited by a revolving earth. But a heliocentric theory was dismissed in Copernicus's era because Ptolemy's ideas were far more accepted by the influential Roman Catholic Church.

Around 1514, Copernicus completed a written work, Commentariolus (Latin for "Small Commentary"), a 40-page manuscript which summarized his heliocentric planetary system and alluded to forthcoming mathematical formulas meant to serve as proof. Copernicus's theories incensed the Roman Catholic Church and was considered heretical. Martin Luther voiced his opposition to the heliocentric solar system model. His underling, Lutheran minister Andreas Osiander, quickly followed suit, saying of Copernicus, "This fool wants to turn the whole art of astronomy upside down."

Suffering the aftermath of a stroke, Copernicus was said to have been clutching his book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"), when he died in his bed on May 24, 1543 in Frombork, Poland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus

The man that made us realize every year is a revolution!

@hecate For co-orbiting bodies, it is the center of mass of the system. For our solar system, that point is within the sun, but not at its exact center, and it too is in motion.

Actually Copernicus didn't think the earth revolved around the sun, he thought it revolved around a "center" that was nearby, but was not the sun itself. The Greek astronomer Aristarchus came closer, in stating the earth rotates 360 degrees a day, and orbits the sun. The Pythagoreans were also correct, in that Pythagorean way, in knowing the earth revolves around a central fire that isn't really the sun—it is, instead, desire.

My favorite lines about Pound:

praise be to nero's neptune
the titanic sails at dawn
and everybody's shouting
"which side are you on?"
and ezra pound and t.s. eliot
fighting in the captain's tower
while calpyso singers laugh at them
and fishermen hold flowers

The land the Dutch boringly named New Amsterdam has always been cursed. Which is why the Lenape were content to let it go for a handful of beads. But neither they, the purchasing Dutch, nor even H. P. Lovecraft, could conceive that it would one day prove such a hellpit it would belch forth the most hideous beast in all creation. But it did. Which is why, in the fullness of time, it shall be drained of all its human inhabitants. They will leave in a long and winding stream of refugees: possessions piled high on wooden carts; strapped firmly to their backs. As behind them officials of the Department Of Shame set about demolishing the entirety of the city. All works therein of human hands shall be ground into dust. The city shall be returned to the wild, and it will stay that way. The only human-crafted object to remain shall be a small plaque containing the words of The Hairball’s mother: “What kind of son have I created?” Forever shall it stand as an otherwise mute monument, to What Can Happen.

@Pluto's Republic

...that appeared here, yesterday, regarding the latest proxy indictments by Mueller. It seems there was some strange attempt to spam references to it on Twitter. So the MoA folks did a bit of forensics, only to discover this:

[Update - 12:50 EST]

Commentators pointed out:

1. The first retweet shown above, which introduced the 'fish' line, is from a real person. Debbie Lusigman, the @saneprogessive, who has her own video channel with lots of legit content. The other tweets though are copies (not regular retweets) of the first retweet.
(h/t oldandyoung and integer)

2. The other personalities are likely bots that may well be run by one Scott Dworkin, a grifter who runs the fundraising campaign Democratic Coalition and channels most of the funds to a company he owns. Geoff Miami found the connection and reported on it at Progressive Army.
(h/t Demeter)

Posted by b on February 19, 2018

You can read the details, here:

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/02/internet-marketing-why-is-the-fish-...

@smiley7 the day.

thanks for the OT and spawning fun comments; plus this is how i feel after President's Day holiday on the slopes watching the man take all the money at we worker's expense: