December 1856

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

I always wondered who manages the vivisepulture ping list. So it’s been Tax-chick all along.

[Tax-chick]

Yes, it is. I also have the Morning Kitteh ping list.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

While it seems that Blair put stock in the legal principle that asoldier took the domicile of the state where he is stationed, Blair could not easily make that argument today. Soldiers assigned to military posts are allowed to keep home state driver’s licenses and retain voting registration in their home states, which along with payment of primary taxes are the main incidents of domicile.

That crossed my mind when I read the arguments. My first election was 1972, when I was in the navy. I registered in Long Beach, where I was stationed at the naval hospital, but I kept the same DL with my "home" address for my whole hitch. I don't remember how I filed income tax. In 1864 union soldiers were given furloughs so they could go home to vote. In previous general elections I guess military personnel just didn't vote if they were at remote stations. Since the army and navy were so small I suppose it never became an issue.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from December 19 (reply #39).]

December 22, MONDAY. Huntington trial for today, William Curtis Noyes being of counsel for the people, on the retainer of the Belden concern (Tallmadge, who is to marry Miss Julia Belden, is Mrs. Noyes’s brother). I find the public generally to be much delighted by the onslaught of Huntington’s counsel on old Belden and his usury. . . .

At a special meeting of the Board of Columbia College this afternoon. Mr. Ruggles had to leave, re infecta, to attend the funeral at Noyes’s. The special subject was the division of the chair of physical science – McCulloh’s. The recommendation of the committee in charge of the subject was to divide that chair at once. . . .

It was determined to divide McVickar’s, Hackley’s, and McCulloh’s professorships; a sound result, though not attained by the soundest reasoning.

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

[Tax-chick]

I’m looking forward to reading Mr. Strong’s comments on New Year’s Day, the big social-posturing event of New York society.

Edith Wharton’s 1850s-set slice-of-life is “The Old Maid,” one of her most famous novelettes. The eponymous character has a child out of wedlock, and, by shifts, is able to bring her up but without being acknowledged as the mother.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

George likes to record events the day they occur while the details are still fresh, but for some reason he won’t describe for us his New Year’s Day activities until the fifth.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Edith Wharton’s 1850s-set slice-of-life is “The Old Maid,” one of her most famous novelettes. The eponymous character has a child out of wedlock, and, by shifts, is able to bring her up but without being acknowledged as the mother.

That must be the basis for the Bette Davis movie of the same name.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Almost. The movie was based on the play that was based on the novel.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031750/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_wr#writers

[Tax-chick]

Thanks. I will look for the movie.

[Tax-chick]

Will he tell us if he’s hung over?

[henkster]

I took Homer's comment to mean that he wouldn't tell us about New Year's because of the fifth.

[Tax-chick]

Ah, that could be it.

[Tax-chick]

According to Wikipedia, the play and movie reset the story in the 1860s rather than the 50s.

[colorado tanker]

There is a truly obnoxious ad by a local liquor mart that plays in every Rockies radio broadcast in the bottom of the Fifth Inning. "It's the bottom of the Fifth, and if you're at the bottom of your fifth . . ."

After hearing it a few hundred times it sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard.

[Tax-chick]

That seems very annoying.

[henkster]

Is the fact that Rockies fans are at the bottom of a fifth by the bottom of the fifth a reflection on what it takes to watch a Rockies game?

[colorado tanker]

LOL! Some truth to that! It has been tough to be a fan the last few years.

Things are looking up, though. We have Bud Black as Manager instead of a former High School coach. The new GM is also making some moves to fill holes at first base and the bullpen. So, there's always next season!

BTW, congratulations on your Cubbies. It was a fun series to watch for a guy with no team in the postseason.

[Tax-chick]

Oh, a sport!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from October 30 (Reply #60)

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

[Tax-chick]

I wonder what Gen. Lee would think if he were here today and saw that his argument regarding the elimination of slavery - that it can happen only by moral conversion and not by law - is now repeated regarding the abortion license.

That said, it is charming to read his measured and thoughtful sentences, even when one disagrees with a point. However, the use of ampersands in formal writing of this period always annoys me!