Red Barchetta

 "Great nations have always acted like gangsters and small nations have always acted like prostitutes." - Stanley Kubrick

Erector set "All Electric" ferris wheel

 "There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus

Filter day

 "People are often unreasonable and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway."

"If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.  Be kind anyway."

"If you are honest, people may cheat you.  Be honest anyway."

"If you find happiness, people may be jealous.  Be happy anyway."

"The good you do today may be forgotten.  Be good anyway."

"Give the world your best, and it may never be enough.  Give your best anyway."

"For you see, in the end it was between you and God.  It was never about them anyway." - Mother Teresa

The US 'Military Recruiting Crisis' - Some ideas

"The military doesn't start wars.  Politicians start wars." - William Childs Westmoreland, US Army Chief of Staff 1968-1972

Falling down

 "The future has arrived.  It's just not evenly distributed yet." - William Gibson, Science Fiction Author - December 2003.

Independence Day. And Nuclear Ice Cream

 "God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America." - Otto Von Bismarck, German Chancellor, 1871-1890

Tractor Bits 'n' Pieces (updated with a couple more pictures)

 "If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this manner in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled." - Epictetus

A Hot (Cell) Mess

 "I am sick and tired of war.  Its glory is all moonshine.  It is only those who have never fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry for blood and vengeance, for desolation." - General William Tecumseh Sherman

A few thoughts on the lost Titanic submersible

 "A wrong-doer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something." - Marcus Aurelius

Squirrels and string trimmers

 "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of squirrels." - Me

Side-note:  The movie "Oppenheimer" will be released July 21 of this year.