Middle Finger To the Sky

in Florence, Italy, the Museo Galileo houses the middle finger of Galileo Galilei--- enclosed in a glass case & sticking upright at the sky, it not-so-subtly signifies the wonder that came in insisting that the sky did not abide by the dogmatic assertions made in the big fat work of fiction--- instead, following in the footsteps of Philolaus, Heraclides Ponticus, Aristarchus of Samos, Hypatia, Ptolemy & Copernicus, Mr. Galilei defended the idea that this little rock we all reside on, revolved around the sun & not the other way around, as the cunning catholic church wanted us all to believe--- and though he was found by the Inquisition to be “suspect of heresy,” forced to recant all that he had said & afterward was forced into house arrest for the remainder of his day on the condition that he would read the psalms specific to him being a bad little boy, he is regarded as “the father of modern science, physics & astronomy” & is revered by anyone who seeks truth through rigorous experiment & the accumulation of evidence.