Ignorance yields to wisdom . . .

It's Frigg's (Freya's) day . . . a wind-chill in the 20's started the day in TulseyTown.

On this day in 1841, the whaler Acushnet sailed from New Bedford, Massachusetts, with Herman Melville on board.

The Irish playwright Oscar Wilde docked on this day in 1882 New York, beginning a now famous tour of the U.S.

Today in 1920 the second of what would become known as The Palmer Raids took place conducted by J. Edgar Hoover's Bureau of Investigation (now FBI), the first two months earlier.

The science fiction writer Isaac Asimov was born on this date in 1920 Petrovichi, Russia.

And, Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien born today in 1892 Bloemfontein, South Africa

Musk, the world’s richest man, has eclipsed Vice President–elect J.D. Vance and sometimes even Trump himself as the face of the incoming administration. --Heather Cox Ricardson in Letters From An American.

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal. – Oscar Wilde