Sometimes it’s the little things in life that are baffling. I take 2000 mgs of Vitamin D every day. I keep the jar on a shelf with other pills I take daily or now and then. Yesterday morning, when I took my Vitamin D, my jar was about half full. This morning, when I went to get my Vitamin D, the container was empty. Not only that, it was a brand and shape I had never seen before. I have no explanation.

I went to CVS to buy another jar/bottle/container of Vitamin D. That led to another mystery, one that seems l recur every time I go to CVS. I go to checkout and am asked if I want to apply my 20% off coupon. Where that came from, I have no idea.

The subject of my Thursday morning breakfast group today was Socrates. I believe I a correct when I say that Socrates would have no explanation for these mysteries.

Of course , he’s not around to ask. That’s because he was convicted of a crime. And he was forced to ingest some hemlock. If I were convicted of a capital crime and could choose my last meal, it might be hemlock. I like the name. And maybe it would be painless and save me the shock of being electrocuted.

Let’s stay with this thought. Even most people who believe in capital punishment (same crowd as wear MAGA hats) think that people should be put to death humanely, right? But not so humanely that you can just call the prison anesthesiologist. That would take away the drama, and what would murder be without a little drama?

Or by calling me in to sing a song? Ever hear me sing? The answer is “no”, because you wouldn’t live through it. But it is humane. “And for your last song, we present Art singing …. “Killing you softly with his song”.

I see Alabama is trying out a new method of murdering with nitrates. I admit I didn’t read the article, but I congratulate them on finding a new way to end a life.

Going back, for a moment to the last meal. Did you read that in, maybe Oklahoma, they offered a guy his last meal, and they blew it? He didn’t ask for grilled piranha or anything that exotic. He asked for KFC, but they brought him white meat rather than dark meat. “OK, prisoner, what would you like your last disappointment to be?”

Going back to Socrates, what again was his crime? It was corrupting the youth. And how was he doing that? He was teaching them how to think, not what to think.

Look at today’s social studies curricula at most universities today. If Socrates got a university appointment, how long would he last?