Poor William's Almanack, March 13, 2013, Fanatics

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[1733 - Joseph Priestley, minister, chemist,
born in Yorkshire, England]

Delmonicos Restaurant in NYC
[1813 - Lorenzo Delmonico, restaurateur, born in Marengo, Switzerland]

[1855 - Percival Lowell, astronomer, born in Boston]

[1913 - Harold J. Stone (Hochstein), actor, born in New York City]

[1919 - Irina Mikhailovna Baronova, ballerina, actress, born in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), Russia]

[1930 - Discovery of the planet Pluto is announced]

[1938 - Clarence S. Darrow, trial lawyer, dies in Chicago at age 80]

[1947 - "Brigadoon" opens at the Ziegfeld Theater, NYC; runs for 581 performances]

PDP-11-20 front view PDP-11 with cabinet open
[1970 - Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) introduces its PDP-11 minicomputer series systems]

Fanatics

crazy man in straight jacket

I would sooner try to reason about revealed truth with a maniac than I would with a True Believer.

William's Whimsical Words:

True Believers have no bases on which one can negotiate with them on the subject of their true beliefs, and this is so no matter what they claim to believe in.

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