This will be the first of a 3-part series on Stanford University. Part 1:  the title above.  We have a facebook page . Part 2:  The Stanford Prison Experiment and Marshmallow Study. Part 3:  Elizabeth Holmes, maybe the most infamous Stanford student.  Currently playing in movie theaters is a documentary about her, You Can See Everything .  Rotten Tomatoes scores of 98/97!!!  I might just go and see it today, which would be the first time for me to actually go to a theater since Barbenheimer weekend. Why Stanford class of 1962?  That was the year I graduated, after 3.75 years there.  I have had numerous postings about Stanford University.  Here are a few. 7February2013:   HOW TO GO TO STANFORD FOR ALMOST FREE 15March2014:   STANFORD HITS THE SWEET SPOT 9December2015:   THE STORY OF STANFORD WINES 15June2016:  CAN STANFORD SAVE PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY? 20January2017:  WHICH IS THE HARDEST UNIVERSI...

President Donald Trump had a dream. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times published an op-ed about Creatures from the Green Lagoon .  A few quotes: A historian once told me that the presidency would distill Donald Trump to his essence.  That essence, it turns out, is trillions of microscopic organisms that suck up all the oxygen and endanger life around them. The algae is a perfect metaphor to reflect on our unreflective president and his impulsive and solipsistic style of governing. This is the hallowed site where Marian Anderson serenaded a throng after getting banished from Constitution Hall for her race, and where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to an even bigger crowd around the 2,028-foot pool. Reports of Trump victories, with the knotty issues of Iran and the reflecting pool, are premature. Iran is gloating about Trump’s bad deal. Senate Republicans who normally don’t have the temerity to challenge Trump are deriding it. And the hydrogen peroxide t...