Daily Archives: November 25, 2010

A Thankgiving Proclamation from a Governor Who, in 1936, Could Seriously Write

This spell-casting Thanksgiving proclamation was penned by Connecticut Governor Wilber Cross in 1936: Time out of mind at this turn of the seasons when the hardy oak leaves rustle in the wind and the frost gives a tang to the air and … Continue reading

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Is Spain Too Big to Fail? Are We?

The following was in the New York Times on the day before Thanksgiving, 2010. It describes with stark clarity the vicious debt whirlpool that Spain is in the grips of. I wonder what Paul Krugman would say about this. I suppose that, someday, the United States could find … Continue reading

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Ben Franklin: Science Hippie

I love the Promethean line that Anne Marie Jacquez Turgot wrote to accompany Houdon’s bust of Benjamin Franklin: Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. Translation: He snatched the lightning from heaven and the sceptre from tyrants. That says it all. Ben Franklin: another science oriented … Continue reading

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