Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
The Big Speech: Become such as you are.
Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
Pindar
Sunday Morning Scene: Churches of the West: Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Church, Denver Colorado
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Sunday, March 28, 1915. The first lost American.
The British registered Falaba was sunk by the U-28 in St. George's Channel with American citizen Leon Thrasher on board, leading to a diplomatic crisis.
Thrasher was the first American killed in World War One.
The British ferry Brussels tried to ram the German submarine U-33 after it tried to stop and board her. The submarine had to dive to evade being hit. Submarines were being treated as criminal vessels by the British due to unrestricted submarine warfare.
Last edition:
Friday. March 26, 1915. A view of Alsace.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Today In Wyoming's History: March 26
Amazing to think that it's that old, or that it was founded so soon after the University was established.
Unsolicited Career Advice No. 5. How do you become a rancher?
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Old Picture of the Day: President Roosevelt
Old Picture of the Day: Roosevelt in Knickers
Old Picture of the Day: Teddy Roosevelt in Earlier Days
Old Picture of the Day: TR
Old Picture of the Day: Teddy Roosevelt
Old Picture of the Day: Colonel Roosevelt
Closing our eyes
Lex Anteinternet: Peculiarized violence and American society. Looki...: Because of the horrific senseless tragedy in Newton Connecticut, every pundit and commentator in the US is writing on the topic of what cau...That essay came in the wake of a tragic mass killing and it looked at root causes, at a time during which a lot of public commentary was focused on proposed efforts that would not address them.
I mention that now, as we've just had yet another example of a senseless mass killing of a type we've seen several of in recent years, but we don't seem to see much proposed in the way of doing something about it. That is, the co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that crashed into the Alps this week turns out to be mass murderer.
This isn't the first time in recent years where a commercial pilot has chosen to kill himself and all of his passengers. It's totally inexcusable on every level. A question remains about this, that being, why is so much attention focused on controlling implements for which the legislative control of which will not have a demonstrative effect, while there hasn't been any outcry about whom is allowed to pilot hundreds in the sky?
Yes, I know there's commercial licenses, but even on the simple applicable standards level, it would appear that around the globe various pilots simply don't measure up to the American standard. They should, and there's no reason that a universal, very high, standard can't apply to all commercial air carrier pilots. But beyond that, perhaps the time has come to place these men and women through some sort of psychological battery every six months. It won't catch them all, but it might catch some who are getting dicey, or even just sloppy. And maybe the time has come for a third pilot to be in the cabin, just in case. These are big complicated planes and there's been a lot of accidents, which might be reason enough, and might help to keep something like this from reoccuring.
Lex Anteinternet: The Distrubing Thesis of Capital in the Twenty Fir...
Lex Anteinternet: The Distrubing Thesis of Capital in the Twenty Fir...: I haven't read it yet, but I've been reading a lot about Thomas Piketty's new book, Capital In The Twenty First Century. The b...This morning, in reading my local newspaper, George F. Will reviews a new book with a counterveiling thesis, that being John Tanny's new "cheerful, mind-opening book, “Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You About Economics.". Will's article is boldy entitled "How income inequality benefits us all".
Will characterizes Tanny's book which I also haven't read, as boldy presentign a new thesis, but it what it apparently does is bodly defend an old one, that being that Adam Smith was right and we need not worry about jobs being exported overseas. The book apparently expertly cites numerous examples, with the basis nature of them being that when jobs like making Iphones go overseas, the price lowers so much that in real terms all of our incomes rise. The book isn't limited to that type of analysis, however, and also, apaprently, defends monopolies.
This is obviously quite the opposite of Piketty, whom I still haven't read, but it strikes me that in some odd ways they may both be correct and incorrect at the same time. Will's Tanny is correct, that buying at Wall Mart or from monopolies, and from companies that manufacture in the cheapest possible fashion, means less of our income goes into purchases, but it also can't be denied, as Piketty demonstrates, that the wealth that's generated gets concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, who are by extension more and more powerful.
The overarching thing, however, is that Will's cheerful defense ignores something, which Froma Harrop has been exploring in her recent articles. Nobody wants to be poor, but at some point an economy that serves only to produce wealth and do so efficiently is really soulless and concentrates people into jobs that they might not really like. In other words, what if some people, indeed a lot of people, are just flat out happier working as a machinist on the factory floor, rather than in some clerk job in the cubicle forest?
Friday. March 26, 1915. A view of Alsace.
The French took Hartmannswillerkopf giving them an observation post for Alsace.
The town of Miami Beach, Florida was established.
Last edition:
Thursday, March 25, 1915. Loss of the F-4.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Thursday, March 25, 1915. Loss of the F-4.
The US submarine USS F-4 sank off of Hawaii with the loss of all 21 hands. It was the U.S. Navy's first submarine loss, discounting of course the CSS H. L. Hunley, the Confederate submarine.
The SS Tamar was sunk by the SMS Kronprinz off of Brazil.
Last edition:
Tuesday, March 23, 1915. Advances at Hartmannswillerkopf.
We're Not Taking Enough Lunch Breaks. Why That's Bad For Business : The Salt : NPR
I'm afraid I'm guilty as charged on this one.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Lex Anteinternet: And the pumps kept on.
And following on this:
Lex Anteinternet: And the pumps kept on.: Saudi production has reached 10,000,000 bbl per day, near (or perhaps) an all time record high. This comes in the face of Saudi resistance ...