Conan, Kull, and Solomon are kings

Immune from all indentured slings

Should the master speak

The boards may creak

The night crew

And the shadows grew

What the dickens?

The plot thickens

And she likes it that way

Mrs. Henry Wood

Even if she could

Claims she never, ever would

In East Lynne or London West

Everything is for the best

So there!

Wee Willie Wilkie

Married a Silkie

One of the four modern Marys, whose names shall remain forever unmentionable, at least according to Virginia.

A face only a mother could love.

Virginia Woolf was not a Guelf

Nor yet a Ghibelline

She sang herself to sleep at night

But not perchance to dream

Virginia Woolf was a bit obsessed

with Charlotte and Emily,

but it seems Anne

never really existed for her,

as with so many others.

The “three to one” rule in military operations states that when the attacker has a three to one advantage in effective force over the defender, victory is assured.

This rule of thumb in military operations finds a sympathetic chord in the mathematical operation of the discrete analog of the GB model.

A three to one advantage in opposing military forces is equivalent to a net relative advantage of three minus one equals two, which corresponds to the boundary between decision processes that converge on unity and those that do not.

The three to one rule is thus a local application of a law that is universal in nature, and applies to all decisions, not just those that involve physical violence or military conflict.

The same rule is applied under much different circumstances in the U.S. Constitution, where no amendment is approved unless and until three-quarters (three to one) of the states have duly ratified it.

By comparison, removal of federal officers for high crimes and misdemeanors requires “only” a majority (one to one) of the House of Representatives for impeachment and two-thirds (two to one) of the Senate for conviction.

This may help to explain the incredible staying power of the U.S. Constitution, which has endured for more than two centuries with relatively few changes, in despite of vast geographical expansion, enormous population growth, rapid urbanization, amazing changes in science and technology, multiple industrial revolutions, two world wars, and much, much more.

Eight billion zombies can’t all be wrong. Not at the same time anyway. Time to make a difference. Take a stand. Strike a pose. Capture a moment. Or walk on by.