Kentucky Colonel; the answer is still 48.
Hello ...... welcome to my space
Actually,My Real Name is Harry Feel Free to call me Harry!!!!I am a 70 year-old American cynic
who spent some years abroad as a Counter Espionage Agent with the Counter Intelligence Corps and then too many years in positions observing state and federal politics. I spent two wasted years as a liberal columnist for an ultra-conservative newspaper serving an audience of far-right-wing ideologues. 
I am told that in many homes my column got first attention, usually for the bottom of bird cages,to start the morning fire, and in rural areas it received more personal attention.
I am interested in ideas of real people who take time to think and who are intelligent and refreshing enough be different. 
What I Think When I Think
If I had to choose a historical religion to believe in, I would have to go with the Greek/ Roman-type pantheon. Having separate gods to guide the different facets of our existence as well as the separate aspects of nature; each working independently of and jealously, competitively and bureaucratically against each other; satisfying, first, their own selfish needs; and having only one thing in common: the desire to seduce every other god and as many mortals as possible—being guided themselves by a Zeus or Jupiter whose sole interest also lies in seducing all other gods and as many mortals as possible—seems to me to best explain why the world works as it does.
My personal belief, however, is that the universe was created by a Cosmic Sense of Humor 
with the single intent of throwing all of its geniuses and idiots— perhaps giving the idiots a slight edge— into a single arena for the sole purpose of enjoying the results, much as we humans enjoy watching “Monty Python” and “I Love Lucy.” Faithful followers have only one commandment: to maintain a sense of humor when studying history and watching current events, while laughing profusely and guarding against the beguiling devil of self-importance lest we lose sight of the fact that, in terms of survivability, preference was given to the cockroach.
What I do When I Am Not Thinking
Presently, while mental fragility lags sufficiently behind physical fragility, I spend my time writing short stories, acceptable Haiku, bad poetry, articles, and nasty letters to ediors and to politicians and department heads; trying to improve upon my martini formula; and, while testing the formula, identifying, reporting and recording those events and trends in everyday American life that are similar to those leading to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire and to the rise and the fall of the Third Reich.
I find neither joy nor shame in being a spiritual ex-patriot. I am only sad that one of the world’s great attempts at forming a real democracy and a free society appears to be on the verge of collapse due to greed, hatred and the intellectual atrophy suffered by an overwhelming number of its citizens.
A bit of Haiku just to change the mood.
Moonlight on old snow my cat pauses cautiously.
The sound of snowflakes.
In a shaded Pond
leaves falling up to the sky
are stopped by themselves.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend;
inside a dog it is too dark to read.
Groucho
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