Venezuelan Democracy Advocate Maria Corina Machado today received the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize .  Machado is a 58-year old industrial engineer known as Venezuela's Iron Lady, who has led the opposition to authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro, whose last two elections were obviously fixed, and therefore not recognized by many countries, including the USA. The Nobel Committee awarded this prize for  her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy . If Trump wants to be the victor for this medal next year, he should understand that the Nobel Peace Laureate fights dictatorships, not reach out to become one.   Reaction from  Time  magazine?   TRUMP LOSES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE HE SHAMELESSLY CAMPAIGNED FOR . Donald Trump was no doubt disappointed, but shouldn't have been because the winner is decided most on what that person accomplished i...

I never previously thought that Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash had much in common about their lives.  Just watched on Amazon Prime the 2006  Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash:  The Road Show , featuring 30 performances of their early careers.  There are definite parallels. EP born in Tupelo, Mississippi, 1935 and lived for 42 years.  JC, Kingsland, Arkansas, 1932, 71 years.  Well, not so similar, but this comes later. Elvis Presley. Twin brother was still-born. Family moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1948. Did not read music. Began singing for Sam Phillips of Sun Records in 1953. Made his only appearance in the Grand Ole Opry in 1954. Signed up with Colonel ( who was never a military officer ) Tom Parker in 1955.  Elvis was 20. First hit single was  Heartbreak Hotel  in 1956, after which he made his first film,  Love Me Tender .  Soon was playing in Las Vegas. In his second Milton Berle Show, launched into his famous exaggerated body movem...

I don't think I have ever owned a Rubik's Cube.  I have also never solved the game.  However, I can order one from Amazon.com for $5.19. A larger one costs $20. Hate to stoop to this level, but there is a  Donald Trump Rubik's Cube .   From the  Japan Times  in 2017. The story of  Rubik's Cube : Invented in 1974 by Hungarian Professor Erno Rubik ( right ). Has 26 cubes with 6 colors--white, yellow, red, orange, green and blue--plus 519 quintillion permutations. Began to be sold in 1980, and at one stage in 1981, three of the 10 best-selling books was on how to solve this cube. The  New York Times  in 1982 reported that the craze had died. But Rubik's patent expired in 2000, and the craze returned in the early 2000s When it sold 350 million, it became the best-selling toy in the world , according to some sources. Now, 500 million sold. However,  this article  says that the cube ranks #14, with Barbie ( 3 billion sold ) at #...