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Monday Miscellany

I stumbled across this glass at a flea market back in the early 1990s, after Arkansas had left the Southwest Conference. I bought it for 25 cents or something like that, thinking it might be a pretty cool collector's item some day (since it had Arkansas on it). A few years later, the SWC imploded altogether. It features logos of the schools that were in the conference from 1971 to 1991. It's now worth $3,000.00.

Naw, just kidding. It's probably not worth more than a few dollars, but if anyone knows anything about such matters, please let me know.

Birthday

Margaret (a/k/a "Meg" or, my favorite, "Octavia," connoting "baby number 5") turns 11 today. So far so good. She's a sweet little thing. We'll see what I'm typing five years from now.

Peirce and Popper

Anybody know anything about C.S. Peirce or Karl Popper? I don't, except I know Popper excoriated Plato and Russell Kirk excoriated Popper. But Nassim Taleb is a fan of theirs, so I decided to buy two books about them.

I know I resolved to limit my reading to a dozen authors (listed here), but I've decided that my studies can include those authors who might enhance my enjoyment of The Dozen. The Peirce biography is splendidly-written, incidentally. I haven't glanced at the Popper book yet.

Correction

Marie had never planned on voting for Romney (like I said on Saturday). She was going to vote for Ron Paul, but now that Romney has irritated her with the phone campaign, she might vote for Santorum, so she can vote against Romney. And truth be told, I'm thinking about it, too. Also: A friend this morning told me he's voting for Santorum because he wants to vote against Romney (he is a Ron Paul supporter, otherwise).

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