February 2010
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Photographs from the Depression
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New 9/11 photos from above
Heartbreaking. Still. Always. From CNN.com.
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Greenbie’s vitals
Google sure comes in handy! I was wondering when (or if) Greenbie had died. Here are her vitals:
Born: August 4, 1891
Died: January, 1976 in Penobscot, Maine.
It isn’t clear from the citation whether she’s buried here but the “nearest” cemetery is listed as:
Alton Cemetery, Penobscot, Maine
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Do You Know What Keeps Glenn Beck up at night?
Just read this Freakonomics article in the NY Times and listened to a short Freakonomics Radio clip of Stephen Dubner interviewing Glenn Beck. I don’t know if Beck and I see eye to eye on the subject of this blog. I imagine we would. I’d like to find out for sure.
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America is not yet lost
Paul Krugman echoes a lot of my thoughts about the dysfunctional Congress.
We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic.
It seems Sen. Shelby of Alabama:
has now placed a hold on all outstanding Obama [...]
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
-- George S. Patton