One Bad Hombre?

...Or Mexican hero?

Adoration Of The Shepherds

Caravaggio, "Adorazione dei Pastori"(1609)

Renowned for its artistic realism, Caravaggio's nativity depicts a humble birth, lit as if by a single candle. Caravaggio was revolutionary because he depicted with simplicity what others had glorified with glamour.

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"Heard it through the bovine" at Lem's:

Evi L. Bloggerlady said... 

Guess who sits with Colin Kaepernick? 

September 3, 2016 at 8:36 PM

The link goes to a blogpost reposting this perennial "Man For All Seasons" favorite:

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Now, I want to analyze this scene in terms of Hillary and not Colin Kaepernick.

And go he should if he were the Devil himself until he broke the law. 

That's a beautiful use of the subjunctive mood---something that is disappearing in our modern language---but I digress. Hillary you see, has broken the law in the eyes of many. That is the whole point of why she is worse than the Devil in this election.

From Blogger EBL

#CincoDeMayo pic.twitter.com/pENn2hVD7f

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) May 5, 2016

"Game Of Thrones Is So Popular It Has An Effect On Porn Consumption"

Game of Thrones, not just one of the most popular shows on television, but one of the most popular shows in history, has on Sunday once again confirmed its impact on the world! Incidentally, on porn industry… as it happened, the online porn consumption has decreased by 4% on Sunday. And if you think that 4% is not significant, think again!

PornHub, one of the 60 most visited porn sites in the US, has released a statistic showing that 4% in terms of numbers is actually millions and millions of visitor a day! How about that for a 4% decrease?!  (via Reddit)

Relieve Tension, Three Times Daily

The month of May is here. We didn't always call it that though:

May corresponded with Anglo-Saxon Ðrimilcemonað, 'month of three milkings'. "So called because in this month the cattle were milked three times a day,' comments Bede, 'such was the fertility of Britain or Germany, from whence the English nation came to Britain.'

Parsing the word Ðrimilcemonað is easy in German: Drei/Milche/Monat => three/milk/month

Speaking of cows and milk, EBL's blog has a great round up of Baltimore-related links, including the legal blogs.

EBL's masthead is an H.L. Mencken quote:

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. 

H.L. Mencken was of course closely associated with Baltimore and its greatest newspaper, The Baltimore Sun.

[Added] The faces of the accused at EBL.  More than three milkings per diem!

Yule Be Glad

Welcome to Yuletide!

From The Anglo-Saxon Year, a historical look at the naming of months by the Anglo-Saxons. Their words are our words now:

The months corresponding to December and January were both known as Giuli, 'Yules'. Bede implies that Geola, Yule, was the name for the winter solstice when he states that these months 'derive their name from the day when the Sun turns back to increase, because one precedes and the other follows'. But judging by the names of the months it's equally possible that Geola was the name for the whole midwinter season. December was Ærra Geola, which can be interpreted as either 'first Yule' or 'preceding Yule', and January was Æfterra Geola, 'following Yule'.

Yuletide begins with a shiver but ends with tidings of great joy.