Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Monday, May 12, 2014
No More Bromine: Coke, Pepsi Drop Controversial Ingredient : The Salt : NPR
In the "really. . . there was nothing else to worry about department. . . ."
Removes 99% of Makeup . . .
Here's a thought. Dispense entirely with makeup. That removes 100% of makeup.
A cranky opinion I know, but I'm operating on very little sleep today and cranky as a result. But makeup is largely a fraud on women.
Women do not need makeup. It's a huge industry that promotes the idea that people look better by not really looking natural, which is absurd. Indeed, at its most absurd, it promotes the idea that by using it you look natural, when obviously you look the most natural by not wearing it.
Nobody really looks better than they do in a state of nature by wearing makeup.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Summer has been cancelled.
It's snowing again here right now. And I don't mean barely, I mean its really coming down. Probably snow all day.
Snowed last week a couple of times too. Flew to Denver one day it was really coming down here to find that it had snowed slightly in Denver as well.
Not really that unusual for this region, but snow every week is a bit unusual. With all the reservoirs full for the first time in decades we might be in for flooding.
And of course, I just brought my lawnmower in to try to deal with the lawn yesterday, and didn't get to the back yard. We went to see a showing of Doctor Zhivago, which is touring in a restored version (highly recommended). So about 1/3d of the back yard is done and now it's snowing. It was almost like a hay crop as it was. I may have to invest in a couple of sheep.
Again, this is actually normal weather here, albeit not for the past few years. But it's a normal and wet spring, for sure. And a snowy one.
Poll: Prestigious Colleges Won't Make You Happier In Life Or Work : The Two-Way : NPR
Interesting findings (and timely for this time of year).
I wish that the Presidents would learn that going to an Ivy League law school doesn't necessarily mean you'd make a better Federal appellate judge. In recent years, that's all we seem to be getting at the Supreme Court level, which is frankly a worrisome thing. Of course, it's also the case that in recent years our Presidents have tended to all come of Ivy League schools as well.
Listen To These Lovely Cats. No, Actually, Don't : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
They do sound truly awful, the few times I've actually heard their smaller cousins, the Bobcat.
Monday, May 11, 1914. The Honored Dead.
A national tribute was held in New York City for servicemen killed in the Battle of Veracruz.
Sunday, May 10, 1914. Mother's Day.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Sunday, May 10, 1914. Mother's Day.
It was the first official Mother's Day, the proclamation having been issued yesterday.
The U.S. Navy brought back the bodies of service men who had died over a snit over how the Mexican government was to apologize for a mistake.
The French Radical Party won a plurality of votes for the French Assembly. In spite of their name, they are a center left French republican party.
Shipwrecked Karluck captain Robert Bartlett left Intuit guide Kataktovik in Emma Town, Siberia and traveled with a Russian escort to Emma Harbor in his ongoing effort to seek a rescue for the Canadian Arctic Expedition survivors on Wrangel Island.
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Saturday, May 9, 1914. A Mothers Day Proclamation.
Friday, May 9, 2014
Why did the bond issue fail?
Saturday, May 9, 1914. A Mothers Day Proclamation.
President Wilson issued a proclamation decreeing Mother's Day. It created the holiday.
The purpose of the day was to honor mothers who had lost sons in wars, although those who had backed the day had a broader purpose, that being to honor mother's in general.
A lot more mothers were about to lose their sons in war.
The war the US was anticipating was one with Mexico, and a full scale staging of troops on the border was underway, as evidenced by this collection of photographs which were copyrighted on this day.
Suffragettes marched.
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Thursday, May 8, 2014
Friday, May 8, 1914. Ag Extension comes into being. Dan Sickles passes on.
The Smith Lever Act went into providing for a national Cooperative Extension Service to be established.
This would allow university agriculture departments to offer rural education programs, which his a good thing.
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING EXTENSION
This is also an example of the American System of economics, which the current GOP detests. It'd be interesting to see what they'd feel about the introduction of such a program today.
An article about the act from another site in another state:
Maryland 4-H and the Centennial of Smith-Lever
On the same day, the 63d Congress also passed a joint resolution "designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, and for other purposes"
A small magnitude earthquake, 4.9, hit Giarre, Sicily, and resulted in the destruction of 223 homes and 120 deaths, saying something about the condition in which people lived.
Coincidentally, or perhaps not, Mount Etna erupted.
This demonstrates, of course, how tectonically active Italy is, but also how poor it was. Since some point in the 1950s, it's been popular to depict Italy as glamorous, but in fact the country was desperately poor to a large extent prior to that time, and was "backward" by the standards of North Americans and northern Europeans. Living conditions recalled Medieval conditions in much of the country up until a post-war economic revolution in Europe changed things, something that also helps to explain the rise of fascism in the 1920s, the strong Italian communist party in the 20th Century, criminal organizations, and large-scale emigration.
The funeral of Daniel Sickles was held in New York.
There was, of course, reason to worry, but that was no reason not to go watch a presentation about the Frontier wars that had followed the Civil War.
Paramount Pictures was formed through a partnership between Famous Players Film Company and the Lasky Feature Play Company.
The first French shipboard aircraft launch was made by René Caudron from a ramp constructed over the fore-deck of the seaplane tender Foudre.
The Caudron brothers, Gason and René, would go on to form an early aircraft manufacturing company, Société des Avions Caudron. Gaston Caudron died in an aircraft accident in 1915, but René carried on in aircraft manufacturing until the fall of France in World War Two. He died in 1959.
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