To: Criminal Number 18F; All
No, I did not know that the Roberts of Robert's Rules of Order was the engineer on the rebuilding of Galveston. I would have thought that the Rules were or more ancient lineage than that.
To all who corrected my H.L. Mencken quote, thank you for your keen interest in the Sage of Baltimore. I appreciate the correction. I did Google my quote and did find it, though it is obviously bastardized from the original.
John / Billybob
To: Congressman Billybob
The Roberts stuff is in one of Henry Petroski's books, I believe
To Engineer Is Human which is actually a group of columns he wrte for an engineering magazine, carefully organised and reshaped to form a narrative about failure in human endeavours and what we can learn from it.
Remarkably applicable to Katrina. Or Louisiana politics. Or politics anywhere.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
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06/01/2006 5:28:52 PM PDT by
Criminal Number 18F
(America has no native criminal class, apart from Congress -- Mark Twain)
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