Ice cream, rice Dream, what better time than the current heat wave to enjoy this cold treat. Thomas Jefferson loved it; or so I have heard.

This morning, I tuned in CBS. I enjoy the morning 90 minutes of enlightening information broadcast every Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. I am not always awake at that time but today I was. I enjoyed the ice cream section and the feature about Santana. (If he didn't get his first Grammy until he was in his 50s, there is still hope for me to accomplish something.) It's like taking a bubble bath for the mind. Quite refreshing from the seemingly endless, unsolvable gloom in the international news recently.

If there are usually two sides to every issue, the Near and Middle East must be a dodecagon at the very least.