The Fuse is Lit
Of all the challenges facing America today, nothing is more threatening to our future as our ballooning national debt, which threatens to lock our nation into a permanent recession. Hopefully a libertarian revolution will arise in time to escape disaster, but the hour already grows late. Here is former Northampton Mayor (and the only Pioneer Valley resident ever elected to the presidency) Calvin Coolidge lecturing the nation on fiscal responsibility in 1924.
We could use a man like Calvin Coolidge today.
Birds of a Feather
Have you noticed at the supermarket check-out what the tabloids are doing to John Edwards? By the time they are through with him he will be the most hated man in America.
And whose judgement was so poor that they thought that the despicable Edwards should be a heartbeat away from the presidency? Why it was Massachusetts' own John Kerry, who picked Edwards as his vice-presidential running mate in 2004.
Maybe its time for Massachusetts to have a second new Senator!
At Raos
Today I went to Raos Coffeeshop in downtown Amherst.
Unlike many times I've been there, it wasn't too crowded.
I see that Raos has a new line of t-shirts, with a big eye on the back.
Raos coffee is indeed a real eye-opener which they brew very high in cafeine - and we love them for it! While I was there I ran into my friend Will who showed me a math problem he invented that was published in the November issue of The College Mathematics Journal.
Not only could I not solve the math problem, I couldn't even understand it!
