"Every gross brained idiot is suffered to come into print." ~ Thomas Nash (1592)
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
--Archilochus
Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."
Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."
Albert A. Gore, Jr.:"An incontinent brute."
Rev. Jeremiah Wright:"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."
Friends of GF's Sons:"Is that really your dad?"
Kickball Girl:"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."
Hired Hand:"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."
Embarcadero Street,Telegraph Hill in the distance
San Francisco City Hall
Memorial Church, Stanford University
Presented for your delectation by the Gentleman Farmer at 5:12 AM
Comments on "April 18, 1906, 5:12 a.m."
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Anonymous said ... (1:14 PM) :
post a commentThe History Channel did a program on the San Francisco earthquake. The main thing I remember about that program was a rather bizarre statement in the commentary. The program told of the incredible destruction, the deaths, the people left homeless, the looting, the lynching of looters, and the people sleeping in crypts that had broken open. Then, the announcer went on to state "But there was also a dark side to the San Francisco earthquake". I was too flabbergasted to catch what was described as the "dark side", compared to what, apparently, had been the "bright side" of the quake. The mind boggles.