75 years old

http://www.jewishworldreview.com ^ | Thomas Sowell

[manny613]

Three-quarters of a century!

It is hard to believe that I am that old but arithmetic is uncompromising. This means that I have lived through nearly one-third of the entire history of the United States.

The changes in my life — and still more so in the life of the country around me and in the world at large — have been almost unbelievable.

[sinclair]

I love that man.

[Billthedrill]

Tom Sowell BTT. Happy 75th!

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Great column. Really makes you think.

[TheOtherOne]

Good article. I'm taking my Grandma out for burgers this weekend to celebrate her 94th birthday. Mmm Apple Pan.

Amazing to think about what she went through.

[Publius6961]

Happy Birthday Tom!
I believe, absolutely, that we have lived through the most fascinating, productive and transcendent period in history.
And you shall forever be one of the more interesting parts of it.

[manny613]

careful about those fried onions

[Tijeras_Slim]

If I live to be 1000 I won't be half as sharp as Dr. Sowell. Happy Birthday Sir!

[Publius6961]

Sowell limited himself to the defining war and personal memories.
He left out all the wonders of science and technology; from the atom to black holes; rockets, satellites, cell phones, routine casual world travel; whimsical personal communications world wide, instantly; computers for everyone to rival the abilities of multi-million dollar ones of the 50s.

This period is simply awesome.

[7thson]

It is interesting to note what has happened during a lifetime. I was born in 1957, the year of Sputnik. I have seen the Presidencys of ten men. Incredible as it seems, though Sowell is 28 years older than me, he has only seen 13 Presidents - because FDR hogged it for four terms! Elvis was a big deal only during three decades while Frank Sinatra sang for 7 decades. I remember comics costing 12 cents, a dime newspaper, a dime for a phone call, 29 cents for a gallon of gas, 30 cents for a pack of smokes. When I first started going to the movies, it was 75 cents for 12 and younger and 1.50 over that. You got a cartoon with your movie, also. The closed the air-conditioned schools in DC about a month ago because it got to hot - 94 degrees. I remember sitting in absolutely stiffling classrooms and also freezing later on in the year. I remember party line phones - do they still have those? What do others remember?

[mlc9852]

Happy Birthday!

[StACase]

Communists slaughtered even more millions of innocent civilians than died in Hitler's Holocaust but they were never condemned as much by the intelligentsia.

Intelligentsia indeed, I would hve used different words, but then I don't have the class Thomas Sowell has.

[OldFriend]

The man is a national treasure!

Happy Birthday, Sir.

[rabidralph]

Happy birthday, Manny. Oh, you're not 75 :-)

[manny613]

some mornings I feel that way!

[dsmatuska]

I thought he was alot younger than that.

[rabidralph]

I know what you mean, unfortunately.

[manny613]

that's what my wife also said when she found out my real age

[lilylangtree]

Work with a 75 year old. Although physically slowed down some, his mind is very sharp and alert as is his 75 year old wife who skis and walks a 7-mile run once a year.

[Steely Tom]

Yesterday was my last day of being under 50.

I had to post the news somewhere, and this was as good a place as any.

(steely)