Poor William's Almanack, September 28, 2011, Faith Based Program

Ben Franklin's bifocals Wednesday, September 28, 2011

flogging on a navy ship cat o' nine tails
[1850 - Congress outlaws flogging on Navy ships]

[1856 - Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin, author, educator, born in Philadelphia]

[1892 - Elmer Rice (Elmer Leopold Reizenstein), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright,
director, born in New York City]

[1901 - William S. Paley, TV Hall of Fame broadcast executive, born in Chicago]

[1905 - Max (Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried) Schmeling, Boxing Hall of Fame heavyweight champion, born in Black Uhlan of the Rhine, Germany]

[1909 - Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin), cartoonist, born in New Haven, Connecticut]

[1916 - Peter Finch (Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch), Academy Award-winning actor,
born in London]

[1919 - Tom Harmon, Heisman Trophy football player, broadcaster, born in Rensselaer, Indiana]

[1924 - Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastrojanni), actor, born in Fontana Liri, Italy]

[1925 - Arnold Stang, comedian, actor, born in Chelsea, Massachusetts]

[1935 - Koko Taylor (Cora Walton), blues singer, Queen of the Blues, born in Shelby County, Tennessee]

Faith Based Program

If you wish to have a truly surreal experience go listen to a Catholic theologian discuss and defend the concept of "just war."

William's Whimsical Words:

How any religion that professes a belief in the teachings of Jesus can endorse the killing of humans by other humans is baffling.

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