Friday

Mourning doves are found throughout America and have large populations in most places they reside.  They are a hearty animal, capable of surviving in a variety of conditions, including summers in desert climates.  As you know, deserts are challenging environments.  Relative to other parts of earth, little grows here and that which does is highly adapted.  For these birds to

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov

America’s Treasury Department removed the designation of currency manipulator from China five months after the moniker was given.  This seems reasonable since the two countries were in the process of negotiating the now-signed “phase one” portion of a larger trade agreement.  Pejorative monikers probably don’t make deliberations easier.

Here we are on the penultimate Friday of 2019.  Around this time of year, it becomes easier to slip into daydreams, thinking about the bygone.  It was with this in mind that Atlas started to consider how much change has happened in the last 50 years.  What we found was eye-opening.

The Land of Oz was ruled by The Wizard of Oz in the children’s novel from 1900, The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.  His subjects held the mysterious man in high regard. Dorothy and her friends even traveled to Emerald City, the capital of Oz, because they were certain he was the only person capable of solving their issues.

There’s a disturbance in the force and technology is behind it.  For instance, do you remember how disturbing it was to rewind your VHS tape?  And even with DVDs, they had to be returned to your favorite rental location or stored with your home entertainment system.  Now we download and stream.