Monthly Archives: November 2012
- Posted November 05, 2012Read more »In the 1960
- Posted November 04, 2012Read more »
One of the worse views of humanity is summed up in Leo Durocher's famous line "Nice guys finish last". Durocher was a major league baseball shortstop and manager and its not clear what in his life led him to this philosophy. Durocher was famously not a nice guy. He was a drinker, passer of bad checks, womanizer and once said that if he was playing third base and his mother was rounding third base trying to score he would trip her. Its not clear at all that being so prickly helped Leo finish any better than being a bit kinder would have. He was a mediocre shortstop, never making the list of the top fifty who played the game, nor did he make the top ten list for managers, supposedly his greatest baseball strength. Durocher is proof that being a nasty only-for-me-person
- Posted November 02, 2012Read more »In the 1970
- Posted November 01, 2012Read more »In the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, people in our area felt firsthand the changes that the modern world has brought us and the dependence that we have on electricity. In our home the nights after the hurricane, after the lights went out, trying to read by candlelight, we had just an inkling of what life in 1840 must have felt like. Even ten candles in a room give barely enough room to navigate, let alone read. No electronic entertainment of any kind