I won't say anything more than to cheer that the major hostage swap in the Hamas-Israel War went well today.   You can read the article . Or  watch a video . Today, all about the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.  I've been here at least a dozen times over the years.   Here is  one stop I made a decade ago , another two years later to give a talk at  Hiroshima University , and third  a  few years later in 2017 to give a talk at Hiroshima University.  where during a visit to Shukkeien for cherry blossoms a bluish-black koi ate Pearl's ash capsule. Were the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the two worst war crimes ever perpetrated in history?  Well,  a lot died : The “low” estimates are those derived from the estimates of the 1940s: around 70,000 dead at Hiroshima, and around 40,000 dead at Nagasaki, for 110,000 total dead. The “high” estimates are those that derive from the 1977 re-estimation: around 140,000 dead at Hiroshima, and around 70,000 dead at Nagasaki, for a total

The is the last of a three-part series on the horror of Donald Trump.  Almost certainly, Trump will for a very long time into the future be considered as the worst President of the United Status.  While others will with some reverence be considered as our POTUS, Trump will deserve the acronym PUS. But why have we had such good leaders over our more than two century history?  Is it because we invented democracy?  No , because this governmental form has been around since those hunter-gatherer days before cities formed, although some say Greece . Yet, amazingly enough, our Constitution is considered to be oldest working document of its type .  Sure, there was the 1215 Magna Carta , which brought an end to English sovereigns, but that was about all it did.  So maybe there is something about how our country is governed that cultivates beneficent presidents. Mind you, he had some accomplishments.  Here is a list drawn up by the White House .  Very, very impressive.  Even after COVID-19, our