After I posted my blog yesterday, I thought I'd watch that classic 1964 anti-nuclear war black comedy, Dr. Strangelove , which got 98/94 ratings from Rotten Tomatoes . Conveniently, I had recorded it some time ago off TCM. Of course I had seen it a long time ago, but forgot all the details. A timetable of what was happening during that period: There was a half-hearted Bay of Pigs invasion in April of 1961. Incredibly, there is a true story of how five of us as Stanford juniors actually had planned to swing through the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the spring break, then join this attack. Good thing we chickened out. The Berlin Crisis came in August of 1961 when the wall was built between East and West Berlin. I graduated and in June of 1962 moved to the Hutchinson Sugar Company in Naalehu on the Big Island of Hawaii, a location where I could not receive radio or television. Came the Cuban Missile Crisis from 1...

New SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY: This blog site derives from the original version of Planet Earth & Humanity, but will be more WE than ME. The coverage will remain similar, but perhaps these postings will seem to come from a parallel universe, or maybe even Purgatory. But truth and reality will prevail, with dashes of whimsy and levity to help make your day.