A weirdocracy

...if we can keep it.

  

“So we agree that the whole government can be shut down by a consensus of Congress’s ten biggest weirdos?”

(Thanks, Ed)

So help me Carl (& Ann)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxucDP9Ol4w/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Question the ethiiics...

Goes for football too...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxlHPphusZM/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Ask people questions

https://www.threads.net/@cosmicmuse/post/CxlKlxqrsi6/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

“Why waste the last years of your life feeling bad?”

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxUW5ozMx2q/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Happy as a dog

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvrrUW0pImy/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Why I love baseball

Sometimes it IS something you can't put into words, at least not words comprehensible to non-fans: a breathtaking catch, an elegant double play, a career-ending milestone... Sometimes it's the delightful spirit of uselessness the poet Wm Carlos Wms expressed: "The crowd at the ball game/is moved uniformly/
by a spirit of uselessness/which delights them--" etc. But mostly for me I think it's just the way it connects my 66 year-old self with the 6-year old who cheered for the '64 Cards in the WS against the Yanks, and with my dad, and my daughters...

@whywelovebaseball50: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxQasxzMdaa/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igshid=ZGUzMzM3NWJiOQ==

Visualization of the speed of light

Space-time is really big.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CwsVWaEtQP0/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

They never quite believe it

https://www.instagram.com/p/CwTqrPSuzyi/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Even 4,000 Steps a Day Can Have Big Health Benefits

But the more you walk, the better off you’ll be.

...That translates into a 30- to 45-minute walk, or roughly two miles, although it varies from person to person, said Dr. Seth Shay Martin, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine and an author of the study. But the more steps you take, the better off you are: Mortality risk decreased by 15 percent with every additional 1,000 steps participants took.

“It’s the best medicine we can recommend: Just going out for a walk,” said Dr. Randal Thomas, a preventive cardiology specialist at the Mayo Clinic who was not involved with the study...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/well/move/steps-walking-health-benefits.html?smid=em-share