Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Combined the death toll between the Northern and Southern forces at the Battle of Shiloh were about 3,479 which still makes it one of the deadliest battles in American military history. The casualties from the battle were greater than the totals from the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War combined... One thing I dislike this time of year is all the end of year lists you'll see. Always felt that was a lazy way to do a column and normally a waste of time to read... That’s a hard no for me…Sad to say but most seem to be more passionate in their hatreds than in their willingness to express love... Life… One of the underappreciated facts of the US Civil War is how some early victories by the Confederate States later laid the seeds of its destruction. Specifically early in the war the Confederates took Columbus, Kentucky but instead of being a great victory it took the state off the fence. It destroyed any pretense of Kentucky neutrality and allowed the North to march soldiers into the state as liberators... Analysis true!… Often think of the quote credited to Ted Nugent, "You have to let the stupid people talk so we know who the stupid people are." What if they say or do something stupid and we don't do anything? Does that make that person lazy or cowardly? Does that say as much about that person as the stupid person?... You learn something new every day. A term we no longer us is "printer's devil" which connotes the youngest of newest apprentice. It probably fell out of favor both because we no longer use many printer firms and who these days has any experience as an apprentice... And there’s bowl games!…

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