Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This speaks for itself: Baruch Pletner: The Hi-Tech Traditionalist: Judge Sullivan Was Right There is something unseemly, obscene, and yes, treasonous in a three-star general, a senior intelligence officer in the US military, engaging […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The good news is you are free. The bad news is you will pay with your life for exercising that freedom. The final news is that you will keep freedom because it belongs […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT BURY ME WITH SOLDIERS I’ve played a lot of roles in life; I’ve met a lot of men. I’ve done some things I’d like to think I wouldn’t do again And though I’m […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT One visits the dentist to have work done on one’s teeth. One visits the grocery store to obtain comestibles. One visits the police station to report a crime or suspicion of one. One […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The self-absorbed preen themselves on, among other things, speaking truth to power. They mean taunting certain among those who wield the penal authority of government. That is, ultimately, shooters. Their perceived allies who wield […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT DATELINE: The White House 23 September 2018 Transcript: POTUS Debriefs Nobody Present: POTUS Trump, VPOTUS Pence, CoS Kelly, Ivanka Trump, Nobody POTUS: Thank you for coming, Nobody. I know the trip is difficult […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Long ago in Seattle, the city council wanted to sell their steam plant on the east side of Lake Union. They received offers and wanted to accept one from a biotech firm. The […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT To start his famed biography of Christopher Columbus, Admiral Of The Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison establishes the context of Columbus’ career: Europe dispirited, dissolute, bored and generally lacking in get up and go. […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Among his collected letters is one from St. Jerome to St. Eustochium, daughter of St. Paula, St. Jerome’s patroness and collaborator at monastery building and administration in Bethlehem. This letter, number […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Roman scholars routinely refer to Jerome as ‘the irascible Jerome’ because the adjective is a pun on the name. The two words share a common Greek root, hieros, which means Fire, […]
