Sixty-four years ago today:
We must work to bind up the wounds of a suffering world — to build an abiding peace, a peace rooted in justice and in law. We can build such a peace only by hard, toilsome, painstaking work — by understanding and working with our allies in peace as we have in war.
Mission still not accomplished.
Well, there goes another "coping with madness results in great art" story:
History has always painted Vincent Van Gogh as the artist who cut off his ear. But according to researchers, history might have got the wrong man.
They believe that, in fact, it was Paul Gauguin, an artist of almost equal renown, who cut off his friend's ear.
Today's quiz: How many people die in the United States each year from flu and flu-related causes? Answer later.
George Will calls on Edmund Burke, St. Paul and the ghosts of Fred Astire and Grace Kelly to denounce a great modern evil: Denim?
Denim is the carefully calculated costume of people eager to communicate indifference to appearances. But the appearances that people choose to present in public are cues from which we make inferences about their maturity and respect for those to whom they are presenting themselves.
Hooray for the Seals, and three cheers to President Obama for telling the military they could handle the situation, up to and including the use of deadly force. Obama will face tougher tests in dealing with Iran, North Korea, et al., but he seemed to have pretty good instincts in handling this one.
President Obama is going for the economy-wrecking hat trick. He's already determined to give us cap-and-trade and nationalized health care. Now he's adding immigration "reform," which will include some kind of amnesty plan, into the mix:
I've always thought it would be interesting to visit Vietnam as a tourist. Strange and unsettling, maybe, but interesting. I can't imagine what it took for John McCain to go back to the Hanoi Hilton:
He pointed to another tiny cell -- about 6 feet by 3 feet (1.8 meters by 0.9 meters) -- with nothing more than a bed frame with no mattress, just a straw mat. He told his colleagues it looked much like the one in which he was held.
There are good reasons to save some old buildings. They might have architectural significance or some strong historical connection. They might still have some use left in them. Being the place where a minor Hollywood star from more than 50 years ago nodded off in study hall isn't one of those good reasons:
Even when Malthusians such as Paul Ehrlich are wrong over and over again, they just won't shut up, and people still listen to them. I mean, if you had predicted the starvation of hundreds of millions in the 1980s and it didn't happen, shouldn't you be a little bit embarrassed, and shouldn't your credibility suffer just a little? Oh, well. The beat goes on:
Wheee! Time travel is fun. You nod off while sampling the Internet in 2009, and you wake up in 1970:
Believe it or not, there are men in Muncie who not only support feminism and feminist ideals, but identify themselves as feminists as well.
But that doesn't mean some people aren't surprised by meeting men who support the social, political and economic equality between the sexes.
