The news is a little thin this week, possibly the “dog days”
or the “silly season” for news — or maybe it’s the lull before the storm. President Obama keeps running around trying
to find some new cause to divert attention away from far more pressing
problems. A lot of talking, but very
little walking, so what else is new?
In any event, here are the news items from this week — I
already told you they are few in number:
• Congratulations on Masako Tsuchitani’s 100th
birthday party. That’s party.
She won’t actually be 100 for a little time yet, but they’re having the
party now.
This is very astute of her. She
gets two parties instead of one.
Frankly, she probably deserves 100 parties, if only for putting up with
the rest of us for so long.
• J. B. Fry, CESJ’s perennial volunteer, is bouncing
back. She’s been having a rocky time of
it, and she’s limited right now mostly to moral support, but that’s often more
valuable than the other kind, when the other kind is indifferent.
• We have ordered a copy of The Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West, containing
upwards of twenty entries by CESJ’s Director of Research, Michael D. Greaney. Much of the research that went into the
entries complements the work CESJ has been doing in tracing the roots of the
modern (mis)understandings of private property, money, credit, banking,
economics, and the natural law. Working on it was especially interesting as Mr. Greaney's great-grandfather and great-grandmother met and married in Leadville, Colorado in 1872 (after being born and raised, but never meeting, not too far from each other in Ireland), and his grandfather was born in Trinidad, Colorado, in 1892, where Sister Blandina Segale had faced down Billy the Kid a generation before. "Family legend" has it that Great-grandmother Mary Ellen was somehow acquainted with Wyatt Earp's mother, but this has never been verified. The Baldwin locomotive engine Mr. Greaney's grandfather drove in the 1920s and 1930s is in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
• Editing of the book by Fulton Sheen we’ve been working on
is complete, and the book is now in “pre-press.” If all goes well, we could easily see a
release date of September 1, 2013.
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 50 different countries and 49 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past two months. Most visitors are from
the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. The most
popular postings this past week were “If You Have a Free Moment,” “News from
the Network, Vol. 6, No. 30,” “Some More Questions About Future Savings,” “Free
Advice to a Couple of Teenagers,” and “Another Note on Say’s Law of Markets.”
Those are the happenings for this week, at least that we
know about. If you have an
accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a note about it at
mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into the next
“issue.” If you have a short (250-400
word) comment on a specific posting, please enter your comments in the blog —
do not send them to us to post for you.
All comments are moderated anyway, so we’ll see it before it goes up.