The Slow Eudemon and Hitler

I don't know if my wits are turned off ("Hey, Scheske, they're always off!") or if the stories on Internet are simply lame. Virtually nothing struck me as post-worthy (and it's not like I set the highest standards or anything). There are two more stories about fraud art (800 naked people at Sobe and a crack in a floor--which is actually kinda neat, though not art, whereas the mass nudity photos are not neat, not art, and terribly tiresome), another story about a mentally sick minister (engaging in de rigueur San Fran conduct), and an interesting stat from the IRS: The top 1% of taxpayers (AGI over $364,657) earned approximately 21.2% of the nation's income (as defined by AGI), yet paid 39.4% of all federal income taxes. That means the top 1% of tax returns paid about the same amount of federal individual income taxes as the bottom 95% of tax returns.

Fortunately, I ran across this interesting bite: Lots of women wanted Adolph, according to a new collection of letters just published. "There are postcards from Nazi party members holidaying in Majorca, letters from lovelorn women - "I would like to make you my little puppy my dear, my eternal, my lovely Adolf" ”“ and from party bigwigs who crept shamelessly in print to their boss." Aside: Click on the story's link and look at the picture of Adolph. Does he look almost, you know, human? That smirk, almost like he has a sense of humor. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of him like that before.