Showing posts with label Einstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Einstein. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

№ 719: Donnie And Albert And Stephen — compare and contrast

IDEAL SPECULATION (November 4)

When Albert Einstein
spoke of his brain,
no one, I think,
made a fuss.

When Stephen Hawking
dwelt on his intellect,
everyone said,
“Perspicacious!

Yet let Donnie 
(in passing!) 
mention his genius. . .
FAKE LIBERAL MEDIA 
pretends disgust!?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Wait!
I can not recall
Einstein or Hawking
saying anything 
like I said 
they said above.

Nor do I remember 
them sending mash notes
to murdering tyrants 
with whom 
they fell in love”.
Sadly, therefore,
I am forced to conclude,
mean as it seems,
and however rude,
Hawking and Einstein
were not, indeed, geniuses.

Unlike Donnie —
sing, “Hey nonny-nonny —
Albert and Stephen
did not bray and whinny.
Instead they DID.
Sing, “Hey ninny, Ninny.

Friday, January 18, 2019

№ 512: Pandora's Pithos (a pithy pity)

You can’t think yourself out of instinct.
Procreate. You know the drill.
Thinking, at best, helps you tread water,
postponing drowning in seas of “godswill”.
Einstein and Darwin, (in theory) knew better,
but stuck with the program down to the letter.

Predestination, evolution and FATE —
leave little room for free will.
Everyone's born back of ball number eight.
Set expectation to nil.

Thursday, June 14, 2018

№ 356: E=mc racist?

Guardian: Einstein's travel diaries reveal 'shocking' xenophobia

“Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.”

“It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races.”

[in Ceylon people] “live in great filth and considerable stench at ground level. . .” 

“Japanese. . .[o]ne has to love and admire this country. . . .intellectual needs of this nation seem to be weaker than their artistic ones – natural disposition?”

Just goes to show
as you'd expect
when no one's looking
saints aren't perfect.

If Albert wrote this
with total aplomb,
must we now disavow
the atom bomb?

But, please, let us not
jump to the conclusion
that Albert'd be down with
Trump's Klu Klux Kollusion.

Distressing, of course,
that he thought others vermin.
Einstein was Jewish
but Albert is German*.
_______________________
*#UStoo, "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist"