Various

01.  Rosh Hashanah

To my Jewish friends and relatives:  shana tova (l'shana tova tikateyvu)

02.  WORDLE

The New York Times reports that the most requested help last week was from people who wanted information on how to improve their Wordle scores.

But, once again, I think that if you want to keep your mind active as you age, try different opening words at random, regardless of how many common letters or vowels or lack of vowels they might have.

Have yourself some mental fun manipulating the random words to figure out the object word, and when you finally guess that object word, you will feel wonderful. IMHO

03.  Greed

In a New York Times article today, a Washington State non-profit was singled out as a predatory entity.

The company was supposed to give medical treatment to the needy without charge.

However, to cover their costs in market investments and real estate, they decided to start bugging all patients for donations.  They even put out a manual advising all medical personnel on how to con donations from all patients, even if they had no money. (One person donated 25 cents.)

The patients could sign to give later and when nothing came to the company later, a debt collector was assigned to push them for it.

(Hopefully, there is a special place reserved in hell for such people.)

04.  Donations Question

Now that the Justice Department has proof that monies donated to an election fund were used for other purposes, can the donors get their money back?  Would they want that?

05.  Calendar

Ambrose Bierce:  

"Monday (noun) in Christian countries, the day after the baseball game."

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