Picture: Pole tops from a while back...Back in 1897, the corn flake was introduced. wired.com has more in an article which talks more about the two very different brothers, one a very successful and innovative doctor, the other a very successful and innovative salesman.
In this week's Shoals News, and item about the Shoals Public Library and its March drive for donations. Did you know that the Shoals Library is the last library in Indiana to hand stamp circulation documents? Could be time to upgrade to an automated system though if you like quaint, then... Send your donation to Gamma Iota Chapter, P.O. Box 293 in Shoals.
Political pundits who have done the math are wondering if Hillary knows what she is doing. They claim her chances of winning the nomination are just about nil and since she continues to go after Obama she thus becomes a foil for the Republicans. Wonder if they remember the John McCain story of these last several months, you know, when he was left for dead as Romney and Giuliani and several others whose names I don't remember got all the press and all the money and McCain just plodded along without money and without staff? And anyway, it ain't over till the fat lady sings, and she hasn't even come on stage yet...
Finished David Halberstam's little volume on Ho Chi Minh this morning. Excellent little essay and left me wanting more. Ho was a giant in the 20th Century who as a young man recognized that the way to take down the imperialists and the colonialists was to get them fighting a war a long way from home which would sap their military strength and sour their populace. Of course, his main concern was the independence of Vietnam, something which he brought to pass though failed to see as he died in 1969, six years before the American War in his country ended. Would expect that a lot of Frenchmen and a lot of Americans would not agree that Ho was a giant but rather a sneaky little devil who refused to come out and fight like a real man. He was much more of a nationalist than he was a communist.
It's snowing cats and dogs out there. Time for a round of golf down in Bermuda or Cartagena.
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