April Foolishness

Frank Sinatra: Fools Rush In

Peter Tosh: Fools Die (For Want of Wisdom)

All of us,
if we are of
reflective habit,
like and admire men
whose fundamental beliefs
differ radically
from our own.
But when a candidate
for public office
faces the voters
he does not face
men of sense;
he faces a mob of men
whose chief distinguishing
mark is the fact that
they are quite incapable
of weighing ideas, or even
of comprehending any
save the most elemental —
men whose whole thinking
is done in terms of emotion,
and whose dominant emotion
is dread of what they cannot understand.
So confronted, the candidate must either
bark with the pack or count himself lost.

All the odds are on
the man who is, intrinsically,
the most devious and mediocre —
the man who can most adeptly
disperse the notion
that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
The Presidency tends, year by year,
to go to such men.
As democracy is perfected,
the office represents,
more and more closely,
the inner soul of the people.
We move toward a lofty ideal.
On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land
will reach their heart's desire at last,
and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
--H.L. Mencken

VISHNU TEMPLE WITH NOMADS
PILGRIMS NEARING HANCE RAPID
TRAMPING INTO TURQUOISE CANYON
THE FOOL ABOVE HERMIT CANYON
MOOSE AND SHINUMO AMPHITHEATER