Wednesday, March 18, 2026

comport \kuhm-PAWRT, -POHRT\, verb:

1. to bear or conduct (oneself); behave: He comported himself with dignity.
2. to be in agreement, harmony, or conformity (usually followed by with): His statement does not comport with the facts.

Comport is derived from the Latin word comportāre which meant "to transport."

(See today's Review Tuesday for a reference to this word in the world of Judge Dredd)

Social Notworking

• The practice of spending time unproductively on social-networking websites, especially when one should be working.

Joe - Hey, Mark is constantly updating his Facebook status, does he not have any work to do?

John - His company obviously doesnt realise how much Social Notworking he is doing!

St. Patrick's Day Shits

• Anytime someone has an unusually green shit. Such an act is likely to take place the day after St. Patrick's Day because of the high amount of green food dye consumed.

Dude 1: Wow, I don't know what I ate yesterday, but I had a mad case of St. Patrick's Day shits this morning and got it all over the bathroom wall.

Dude 2: Holy shit! It looks like Gumby exploded in the your bathroom!

 

Trivia

Which planet experiences 42 earth years of constant summer followed by 42 earth years of dark winter?

• Uranus, because of its unusual (almost 90-degree) tilt as it orbits the sun.

History

• Tri-State Tornado: the deadliest tornado in US history hit Missouri, Illinois and Indiana; nearly 700 were killed (1925)
• Gideon v. Wainwright: the US Supreme Court ruled that poor defendants in felony cases have the right to a court-appointed lawyer (1963)
• spacewalk: cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first walk in space; he spent 20 minutes outside, tethered to the spacecraft (1965)
• art theft: the largest museum heist in history took place at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, with the thieves dressed as police officers; it remains unsolved and a $5 million reward is still offered (1990)

Birthdays

• Grover Cleveland 1837
• Rudolf Diesel 1858

  
• Neville Chamberlin 1869
• Edward Everett Horton 1886
• William H. Johnson 1901
• Smiley (Lester) Burnette 1911
• Andy Granatelli 1923
• Peter Graves 1926 - Actor
• John Kander 1927 - Composer ("Chicago")
• George Plimpton 1927
• John Updike 1932 - Author
• Frederick W. de Klerk 1936 - Former South African president
• Mark Donohue 1937
• Shashi Kapoor 1938

  
• Charlie Pride 1938 - Country singer
• Margie Bowes 1941
• Wilson Pickett 1941 - Singer
• Leslie Parrish (Fleck) 1943
• Kevin Dobson 1944 - Actor
• Barrie (B.J.) Wilson (Procol Harum) 1947
• Brad Dourif 1950 - Actor
• John Hartman (The Doobie Brothers) 1950
• Ingemar Stenmark 1956
• Irene Cara 1959 - Singer

  Patricia Farinelli 1960
• James McMurtry 1962
• Thomas Ian Griffith 1962 - Actor
• Jeff LaBar 1963 - Musician (Cinderella)
• Vanessa Williams 1963 - Singer, actress
• Bonnie Blair 1964 - Olympic gold medal speed skater
• Scott Saunders 1964 - Country musician (Sons of the Desert)
• Jerry Cantrell 1966 - Musician (Alice in Chains)
• Miki Berenyi 1967 - Musician (Lush)
• Queen Latifah 1970 - Rapper, actress
• Stuart Zender 1974 - Musician (Jamiroquai)
• Brian Griese 1974 - Football player
• Devin Lima 1977 - Singer (LFO)

  

 

  

Happy Paddy - 2026

 

 

Review Tuesday: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (1969)

  

 

DUNE

MESSIAH

by Frank Herbert

1969 

Conspirators devise a plan to unseat Emperor Paul Atreides from his throne. 

Many years ago a friend of mine suggested that I should read the DUNE series of books. He recommended the first SIX in the series and that the others start getting off into the weeds. Okay, then, years ago I read the original DUNE book and loved it. However, since I read slowly, I didn't want to commit any more time to this series until I got some other reading out of the way. Recently the media buzz around DUNE: PART 3 has been abound, so I figured it was time to read the second novel and get ahead of the curve.

 

The plot is pretty easy to follow. A group of conspirators assembled to work out a plan to remove Muad'Dib as Emperor, or at least remove his power. It's a clever multi-layered plan with contingencies built in. Of course, none of it is exposed at the beginning, you get see how it all falls into place as the pages turn. 

 

I won't give anything away other than this is an easier to read book than the original DUNE. It moves at a good pace and it's very clever. The ending was a surprise and has me wanting to read the next book in the series.  

 

   

  

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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