OK. This is how odd my mind is.
I saw this...
President Donald Trump speaks with Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
And thought of this ...
School of Athens
The School of Athens. This is a detail of a huge fresco by Raphael, finished in 1511, in the Apostolic Palace in The Vatican. These blokes are Plato (left) and Aristotle.
The popular idea that the rhetorical gestures of Plato and Aristotle are kinds of pointing (to the heavens, and down to earth) is very likely. But Plato’s Timaeus – which is the book Raphael places in his hand – was a sophisticated treatment of space, time, and change, including the Earth, which guided mathematical sciences for over a millennium. Aristotle, with his four-elements theory, held that all change on Earth was owing to motions of the heavens. In the painting Aristotle carries his Ethics, which he denied could be reduced to a mathematical science. It is not certain how much the young Raphael knew of ancient philosophy, what guidance he might have had from people such as Bramante, or whether a detailed program was dictated by his sponsor, Pope Julius II.
The whole thing looks like this:
Also, Mr. President, this is not how you do a proper Jedi Force Wave:
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in Washington. From left, Trump, Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
For what it’s worth, Oprah doesn’t have it, either:
This image released by NBC shows Oprah Winfrey accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP)
Only former Utah state Sen. Steve Urquhart has it down:
Steve Urquhart - Force Wave
OK. Enough foolishness. Back to work, everybody.
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