A Complex Day

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Happy Earth Day. Today is also the Jewish Passover. Complex day.

I once wrote a commentary on the Jewish Passover which was quite funny (boom), at least to me. That commentary may still exist on an old floppy disk somewhere in the closet with my old Apple computers. It is easy to poke fun at ancient ideas if you are so inclined.

Further complicating this complex day is the recent fact that we now have a new pope, Benedict XVI. And from what I have been able to gleen from the news reports this new pope previously held the office of 'vatican enforcer' so to say, which office was apparently descended from the office of 'Le Inquisition.' Did I get that right?

You may recall that The Inquisition was responsible for 'abandoning' many unfortunate folks to the 'punishment of the state' on the grounds of pernicious heresy. In many cases this meant burning at the stake. The case of Giordano Bruno is a well known example. (At this point the server stopped responding and I got the familiar message 'cannot find server.' So I gave it a rest for ten minutes or so and reconnected. After signing in and going to 'create' I hit the 'recover post' option and, viola! It works!)

Which brings us to a sort of confluence of ideas: old, new, and dubious.