Birthday

You might want to swing over to Tam's place and wish her a happy birthday. If you're close enough you might even try to catch up with her and offer hot chocolate or a mask and snorkel set.

Happy birthday, Tam.

The gunny book business

I went shopping at www.gunbroker.com and searched "books." The engine returned a three-page list of 109 separate books or lots of books. The total number of bids is zero. I find that disheartening. As a hobby group are we really that anti-literate?

But one entry tickled me, a partial (13 out of 16) set of one of the several "complete" (sic) editions of Theodore Roosevelt's writings. One of the volumes was author-signed. Opening bid was $99,999.99, modified by a not astounding offer to accept land or a nice motor home in full or partial trade. Maybe even high quality doubles.

It was probably mean of me to poke around in a bibliographic database and discover another seller opinion that the complete set was worth $600. No volume was signed, but I tend to doubt the old Rough Rider's signature is valued at a hair over $99,000.

Liberties, so to speak

This week: ". .“The government may regulate corporate political speech through disclaimer and disclosure requirements, but it may not suppress that speech altogether,”

After McDonald? "The government may regulate firearms through registration and usage requirements, but it may not suppress the keeping and bearing of firearms altogether."

Jean Simmons

RIP. Age 80.

You guys couldn't believe how badly I wanted to be Sky Masterson.