HArd to remember that it was only a half century ago that nearly anyone not in the center of the power structure was not only castigated but imprisoned.
See how far we’ve come?

GAry 7

Otherwise he would have used a surfboard, and not a skateboard!

“Is that the Robert Burnham who wrote the epic three volume ‘Burnham’s Celestial Handbooks’ – I thought he ended up as an editor of ‘Astronomy’ magazine? (Puzzled.)”

He is the author of the handbook, but he’s not the magazine editor. This has been cited as a point of confusion for many people. Almost everyone who’d ever heard of Burnham the astronomy author just (reasonably) assumed he was Burnham the astronomy magazine editor. No one was aware of how he’d hit upon such hard times because apparently he was gainfully employed in the publishing business, putting his knowledge to good use.

Deputy District Attorney Sharon Cho said the jury that acquitted Keller of assault and battery charges couldn’t sort out the conflicting statements of prosecution witnesses.

“The jury just felt unable to really know what happened out there,” Cho said.

This also brings to mind the story of Robert Burnham. After being laid off from Lowell, he seemingly disappeared; but it was later surmised that he’d spent the last years of his life homeless in southern California, selling paintings of cats from a sidewalk to earn a few dollars from time to time.

Is that the Robert Burnham who wrote the epic three volume ‘Burnham’s Celestial Handbooks’ – I thought he ended up as an editor of ‘Astronomy’ magazine? (Puzzled.)

Sad story anyhow. As is that noted in

# 62 Gary Ansorge

What a waste. What a shame.

Although I think perhaps the saddest stories of genius destroyed for bias are what happened to computer genius Alfred Turing … & the inventor of the blood transfusion.

I knew a software engineer employed by Sun Microsystems who, after mentioning in an interview for a magazine(I think it was People Mag) that LSD had stimulated his creative juices, was terminated and effectively black balled in the industry. He made his way after that creating fractal toys and selling them at Dead concerts. Haven’t seen him in a dozen years but the point of this is,,,until you have an income independent of others bias, never admit in print to breaking the law of the land, no matter how stupid that law may be,,,or you could end up on the street.

GAry 7

LOL. Right up there with the best of them. But only for the hip-hip quantum theorists out there…

“The attack didn’t really take place until witnessed by two other people”?

If you hit a homeless guy in the face with a skateboard, the homeless guy will wobble and his lip will split.

The first event complies with the laws of quantum physics, the second event with the law of the street.

Brilliant Phil that made me LOL at work which resulted in an explanation of the joke which as we know makes it not as funny. Still Bravo.

Regards,
Caleb

lololol, pitty that is only for us nerds….

hehe

“It said they were homeless – not crazy.”

Certainly. They may not have been crazy. Just the same, way over in CRAZYTOWN :O !!!!, this sort of thing happens every day.

Oh to be on a jury where the crime had no witnesses. “I say that the defendent is both guilty and not guilty!”