Religion, politics love and war: all in a flying circus . . .

It's the Satyr's day . . . slightly cooler with a cool, warm, and finally cool roller coaster transition forecasted for TulseTown over the next week or so.

Well, no surprise here: Trump Bibles miraculously are an exact match for Ryan Walter's Oklahoma Public Schools mandate.

Today is the birth date of Czech dramatist and president Václav Havel. One of the few writers ever to become the leader of a country was born in 1936 Prague.

In 1969 The British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted on the BBC .

Breakfast at Tiffany's, a film adaptation of Truman Capote's novella, directed by Blake Edwards, had its world premiere today in 1961. Still worth watching for the first or repeated times.

And, Kate Winslet turns 49 today. The British actress was born in 1975, Reading, England

In 1877, A small band of Nez Percé warriors, under the leadership of Chief Joseph, surrendered, ending the Nez Percé war after holding off U.S. forces that had tracked them through Idaho, Yellowstone Park, and Montana.

I am tired of fighting.

Our chiefs are killed. Looking-glass is dead. Too-hul-hul-suit is dead. The old men are all dead.

It is the young men, now, who say "yes" or "no" [that is, vote in council].

He who led on the young men [Joseph’s brother, Ollicut] is dead.

It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death.

My people -- some of them -- have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are -- perhaps freezing to death.

I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find; maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Hear me, my chiefs; my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever!

– Nez Percé Chief Joseph, surrender speech delivered today in 1877, Bears Paw Mountains, Montana.