Going back

I spent today in Oxford and Anniston, where I lived until I was 15 years old.  The high school class to which I would have belonged had we stayed is holding its 20-year reunion this weekend, and a tailgate party ahead of the homecoming football game tonight was the first event. I decided to leave … Read more

The last sane person in Washington on the bailouts

Read Ron Paul’s excellent editorial on the largest financial government intervention since the Great Depression. “When someone hurts, government has to move.” – George W. Bush I hoped for a long time that Bush had inadvertently omitted “out of the way.”  Alas, no. I fear that anymore, government’s always going to be there to “save” … Read more

Albert Einstein’s watch

I’m told I’m difficult to buy gifts for, and I believe it.  I rarely know what to tell people when they ask. Well, this Christmas your problems are solved.  Albert Einstein’s Longines wristwatch is up for auction on October 16 (hat tip, Watchismo Times).  (Incidentally, there are some exceptional close photographs of several additional fine … Read more

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