fine whine from Adams, not Sam

I am willing you should call this the Age of Frivolity, as you do,
and would not object if you had named it the Age of Folly, Vice, Frenzy,
Brutality, Daemons, Bonaparte, Tom Paine, or the Age of the Burning Brand from
the Bottomless Pit, or anything but the Age of Reason. I know not whether any
man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs or the
last thirty years than Tom Paine. There can no severer satyr on the age. For
such a mongrel between pig and puppy, begotten by a wild boar on a bitch wolf,
never before in any age of the world was suffered by the poltroonery of mankind,
to run through such a career of mischief. Call it then the Age of Paine. -
John Adams comment on the title of Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason
[tell us how you really feel, John]

historic flu pandemic death rates

1918 ~ 1/40

1957/8 ~ 1/500

1967/8 ~ 1/500

2009 US ~ 1/2000
UK ~ 1/4000

source

you don't have to agree with everything this woman has to say, but

most of it is good and she says it well.

my reply

Well written Ms Goldstein. I do not agree with some of the asides, but the thrust is appropriate.

The bottom line is his child and that child's inheritance from his father. Which is better: to have money or self-respect and dignity?

The root value is: it is better to teach your child values than to give gold.

Or are "values" a dirty word?

the state of the world education

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47693

lies, damned lies and the facts

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/07/08/sarah-barracuda-palin-and-the-piranhas-of-the-press/?icid=mainhtmlws-maindl1link4http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicsdaily.com%2F2009%2F07%2F08%2Fsarah-barracuda-palin-and-the-piranhas-of-the-press%2F

Too Many Failures with Faster, Better, Cheaper

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