A Variety of Thoughts About Everything

 In November of 1945, with a big part of Europe in ruins as a result of World War Two, the Allied Powers, France, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America, convened a "Special International Court" in Nuremberg Germany. They chose this location as it had been the location of many of the largest Nazi rallies during the early Nazi regime. And they really wanted to make clear, thru this symbolism and other things, that the Third Reich was DEAD and gone. In the subsequent trials they tried the people who were still alive who had been leaders of the Nazi machine and many of the functionaries who carried out the orders of those leaders. In the initial trial the defendants were 24 Nazi leaders who were indicted on charges of Crimes Against Peace, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes, and Conspiracy to Commit these crimes. Of those initial trials 21of 24 defendants were convicted. In subsequent trials more were convict...

 From 1987 to 1990 there was a television show called "My Two Dads". Was a pretty decent show from what I saw, which was not much. I saw maybe a half a dozen episodes. That was about it. There was this one scene that I saw that I have remembered ever since. It is the only scene that I remember from that show. That is how powerfully it impacted with me. In this scene the daughter, who was twelve or thirteen I think, had done something that was considered rather bad and one of the two dads, played by Paul Reiser, was taking her too task. He was obviously angry and while not quite yelling was very intense. And his hand, with his index finger extended, was shaking in her face. And in mid career he just stopped. He put his hand in front of his face, with his hand clenched and index finger pointed up, said with a mix of surprise and ugh, "When did I grow my father's finger"? That is the only thing that I remember from that show. I felt like it was important, did not r...

 For a long time now there have been memes and other such stuff going around the internet, especially social media, that goes like this: "I saw a post that I didn't agree with I didn't get offended I didn't comment I didn't feel the need to change their mind I still like the person I just kept scrolling and went on with my day More should practice this" The first thing that I want to say is that I understand why this sentiment keeps getting put out there. The amount of noise going on in this world these days is amazing. And a lot of it is pretty ridiculous. And people get overwhelmed with all the noise and just wish it would stop. I get it. My problem with this sentiment is that it gives silence to those who are causing genuine harm to our society and those of us in it. And I am also reminded of the "Good" Germans of the 1920's, 30's, and 40's. They were the people who did not make noise. Did not see things as any more than a disagreement...