I intended to write about antisemitism this morning, but I need to give it more thought, so I will put it off until tomorrow or Sunday. Today, it’s back to the box and, although this post won’t show you all of the remaining random material, it will show you enough. Here goes:

We can start with two Russian calendars for 1964 and 1992. Both wallet size. Why do I have these? No idea. I doubt that I got the 1964 calendar in 1964, but maybe I did.

I remember being surprised that I was on George Bush’s list for a holiday card one year. Never happened before. Hasn’t happened since. I remember picking up a date in the late 1950s in St. Louis around Christmas time, and seeing that they had a Christmas card from Dwight Eisenhower on their mantel. I was impressed.

The man who made George W. our president. The year Nader led to our nadir. Of course, back then, we had no idea of how bad things could become. Of course, this was 2004, when Bush was running for his second term. In both years, Nader received about 100,000 votes in Florida as the Green Party candidate. Assuming that most of these votes came from voters who otherwise would have voted Democratic, glGeorge Bush owes his presidency to Ralph Nader.

A Maria Callas book mark. I haven’t seen the new biopic with Angelina Jolie as Callas. Will wait until it streams. I hear she is excellent in the role, and actually does some singing?

Senator Clark of Iowa and his wife were invited to greet the President of Zambia almost 42 years ago at the Four Seasons in Georgetown.  I hope they went and had a wonderful time. Kaunda was a strict vegetarian who was close to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of transcendental meditation fame. What did that get him? He lived to be 97. Senator Clark was probably not a vegetarian, but he lived to be 95. And Maharishi International University is in Iowa. You connect the dots.

An old passport, back in the days (not long ago) when admittance stamping was the norm. Now, you look at your passport and it looks like you just stayed home.

Want me to write you a prescription? I don’t have a pad, just one sheet. Back when doctors put their home addresses on their prescription sheets. This is from 1951 to 1953, when my grandparents lived on Gannon.

Last one. It’s Jewish Book Month. And it’s 1949. What Jewish books were published in 1949? 75 years ago.