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Sustainability cannot be defined. Sustainable for what? Over next year? Over 10 years? Over a millennium? On a local basis, on a planetary basis? I mean, there are so many time and space dimensions to it you cannot define what is sustainable. If somebody is boasting that what they are doing is sustainable, it’s a total laugh. There is no sustainable thing.
— Vaclav Smil
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Today is Thursday, September 7th, the 250th day of 2023. There are 115 days left in the year. It is Salami Day, Grandma Moses Day, National Acorn Squash Day, National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day, National Beer Lover’s Day, and National Grateful Patient Day.
On This Day
In 1857, Mormon settlers slaughtered members of the Baker-Fancher emigrant wagon train in the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
In 1901, the Boxer Rebellion officially ended with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
In 1921, in Atlantic City, the first Miss America Pageant was held.
In 1927, the first fully electronic television system was achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
In 1936, Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas.
In 1940, Germany began the Blitz, bombing London and other UK cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
In 1963, the Pro Football Hall of Fame opened in Canton, Ohio.
In 1978, Keith Moon died at age 32 after overdosing on medication that was supposed to help him overcome his alcoholism.
In 1996, Tupac Shakur was shot five times in a drive-by following a boxing match in Las Vegas. He died six days later at age 25.
In 2008, the federal government took control of the two largest mortgage-financing companies in America, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Today’s Birthdays
Singer Gloria Gaynor is 80. Dopey pundit Peggy Noonan is 73. Singer-songwriter and musician Chrissie Hynde is 72. Actor Corbin Bernsen is 69. Actor Michael Emerson is 69. Actor Tom Everett Scott is 53. Actress Evan Rachel Wood is 36.
The Links
Public Resistance Might Stop the Next Lockdown (Brownstone Institute)
“And here we sit under an ongoing lockdown threat for the new variant, for disinformation, for climate change, or whatever else someone dreams up as a good excuse. All the powers they used for lockdown are still with us. Most of the people who caused this calamity still have their jobs. Few if any have admitted error.”
Bankruptcy — Gradually, Then Suddenly? (Cato Institute)
“Today’s politicians do not feel responsible for entitlement promises made by their predecessors, and they’re unwilling to personally sacrifice to course correct. Giving politicians a way — a lever they can pull— to set entitlement reform in motion, without legislators having to personally take the helm, may very well be the only way to steer America out from the rough seas ahead.”
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