I believe it was in the magazine "The Week" I read of a scientific enclave within the Vatican with whom the Pope at the time, John Paul II, collaborated. Oh, there certainly were unbelievers in the bunch, maybe about all of them. But the subject generally covered was astronomy with the attendant disciplines (rewriting creation/existence, am I?) such as physics.

Light years away with untold stars and masses of matter, certainly there was friction but "the wonder of it all" keeps the folks in some agreement. Even the question of "what is all 'that' doing out there with no evidence of supporting life?" doesn't faze clergy and the scientists as much as the following: Yes, the subjects of biology, evolution and that angle on the big "Why?"---not as much harmony.

C., a member of a jazz band in which I play, wrote a letter printed in the L. A. Times criticizing the folks who repeatedly ignore science and claim global warming is someone's honey pot hoax. Then there is a subject I brought up with him on the eve of the BCIS Championship Game: The player accused of sexual assault who indeed did win the big game and MVP. Some "shade and Freud", I suppose.

Well, shrugged C., there were inconsistencies in the lady's story and he wasn't worried. There's another divide. One which brings some of the most rabid liberals to a screeching u-turn.

John Lennon once sang "Woman Is The [racial slur] Of The World" and if he hadn't unapologetically given the waitress at The Troubadour such a bad time during that "lost weekend" I'd give him a lot more credit. Currently I am watching a lady Christian minister, who as a member of a band erupted on Facebook about playing at the Regan Library, give certain accusations a brushoff that would have impressed those who enjoyed certain coffee commercials during the so-called Mad Men era.

Yes, the phenomenon of religion, which last I looked seems to have been emanated from, with wildy varying results, the development of life, seems to relate better to minerals than, for one of many examples, those who give birth.

I don't regard "Plastic Ono Band" with such a high rating as the world of rockers do, by the way, and just my silly opinion. Funny that I've been called by a few of the following---atheists, believers, liberals, conservatives---a box of rocks.