Oral Roberts, classical mechanics, and a swirling cloud. A famous evangelist passes away from this earthly plane while Goldstein problems and Goldstein solutions are presented as if they were a gift to a man half asleep yet having an axe to grind.

Benjamin Franklin stated, long before Aish.com or even the internet was a gleam in the industrial evolution’s Darwinian eye, that grinding an axe requires a grindstone. And ye better be having a grindstone if ye be wanting to grind yer axe.

In 1779 Ben Franklin sent a story called ‘The Whistle’ to his friend. It was about a child who paid more than he should have for a whistle and was later sorry for his lack of caution. Franklin’s autobiography, written between 1771 and his death in 1790 and first published in 1791, also contains an anecdote concerning a man who asked a smith to sharpen his ax especially well and ended up doing the work of turning the grindstone himself. Neither story mentions the phrase “an ax to grind”.

So who knows?

As to the evangelist Oral Roberts, founder of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University, well he died Tuesday from complications of pneumonia in Newport Beach, California at the age of 91. He had an incredible career in the business of religion. His acumen was legendary and inspired the evangelical pursuits of some of the great “outreach organizations” such as Jews for Jesus, Jews for Judaism, Aish Hatorah, and Chabad just to name a few. He will be missed. Aish Hatorah and Chabad were contacted for a comment about the passing of this great man but neither organization could find anyone that was not too choked up to make a comment.

Ring my friend I said you’d call Oral Roberts,
Day or night he’ll be there anytime at all Oral Roberts.

Oral Roberts, you’re a new and better man,
He helps you to understand,
He does everything he can, Oral Roberts.

If your down he’ll pick you up Oral Roberts,
Take a drink from his special cup Oral Roberts

Oral Roberts, he’s a man you must believe,
Helping everyone in need,
No one can succeed like Oral Roberts

Well, well, well your feeling fine,
Well, well, well, he’ll make you Oral Roberts

My friend works for the national health Oral Roberts,
Don’t take money to see yourself with Oral Roberts

Oral Roberts, you’re a new and better man,
He helps you to understand,
He does everything he can Oral Roberts

Well, well, well, your feeling fine,
Well, well, well, he’ll make you Oral Roberts

Ring my friend I said you’d call Oral Roberts (2x)
Oral Roberts!

As far as the Goldstein solution? Your guess is as good as mine but I like to think that a cloud swirl picture will suffice when words fail. Could it be a bomb that we are looking at here? Is that what the cloud of glory is?