The Honorable Judge Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr.

As a city kid who grew up in Boston, Massachusetts I've always had lots of friends from different backgrounds and many cultures.  Lately I've been thinking about things going on in the world and where we're going.  I realized that one of the most important people in my life had faded into history.  His name was Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr. RIP.  I never knew him personally however, his judicial reasoning, legal decisions, and ultimately his orders had a profound impact on my future.  I'm not going to go into the details I'll just leave a link to his Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Arthur_Garrity_Jr. and you can learn about him for yourself.  The purpose of this post is to say thank you to the most important judge that I didn't get a chance to meet and thank in person.  His order to desegregate the Boston Public School System is the reason that I now have friends across my country and around our world today.  Oh yeah, and besides my parents he is most likely responsible for my success.

This is the Global Village and we all live here together.

November 2015 is going down as a sleeper in global politics and science.  While many expected a changing of the guard in Canada's national elections with the new PM Justin Trudeau and his party sweeping the polls for the win, and a new majority in Parliament.  However, the world was caught off-guard with the almost unanimous decision by Mexico's Supreme Court that set an international precedent where the "Criminal Chamber of Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice ruled that the prohibition of consumption and cultivation of cannabis for personal use is unconstitutional, voiding five articles of the country's principal narcotics statute, the General Health Law. The court found that prohibition of cannabis consumption—or of cultivation for non-commercial purposes—violates the right to "free development of the personality," enshrined in Article 19 of the Mexican Constitution." 

As a former student of Global Studies and International Affairs, and a self-proclaimed jet-setter I commend the Court for confirming the principles of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" championed by the late First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt decades ago who would be proud of Mexico for continuing to champion human rights.

On an even higher plain no pun intended "NASA's Swift Spots its Thousandth Gamma-ray Burst.
GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe, typically associated with the collapse of a massive star and the birth of a black hole."  This significant milestone coincides with the quest to prove Einstein's theory of general relativity because it is theorized that "gravitational wave observatories will detect the first ripples in space-time, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's relativity theory." Source: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasas-swift-spots-its-thousandth-gamma-ray-burst.

 This is the Global Village and we all live here together.

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Blogger has https and now you can make a secure connection to my blog.  That's a benefit in case you are concerned about connecting to unsecured sites.  Meanwhile I've released my second album titled "To See The World."  Visit my site at kleonis.com to stream the title track and "Night World" plus see what else I'm doing these days.

Global Village.