03.13.2023 is the numeric name of this new day. Looks like rain is in our forecast and that’s good. We need some. I feel lucky. The odds I had to beat to exist are 1 in 10 with 2,685,000 zeros behind it. That means that during the last 6 million years, if any my ancestral males and females had failed to conceive, I wouldn’t exist. So, I am very lucky to be here. So are you. The list of events for today are Donald Duck Day, Dribble to Work Day, Earmuff Day, Fill Our Staplers Day, K-9 Veterans Day, Ken Day, National Coconut Torte Day, National Good Samaritan Day National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day and National Workplace Napping Day. Not a great list. Moving on. On this day in 1639 Cambridge College is renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard. On this day in 1781 William Herschel sees what he thinks is a comet but was actually the discovery of Uranus. On this day in 1865 confederate President Jefferson Davis signed a bill authorizing the use of slaves as soldiers. On this day in 1900 France passed a law that limited the working day for women and children to 11 hours or less. Wow. That means children in France were forced to work over 11 hours a day before this passed. On this day in 1915 the manager of the Brooklyn Robins baseball team (Wilbert Robinson) tried to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane. The pilot had forgotten to bring the baseball and tossed a grapefruit out of her window instead. Wilbert made the catch. Today’s dead person is the famous lawyer Clarence Darrow who died in 1938. He said, “The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.” “You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.” “The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.” “Some of you say that religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.” I only used a fraction of his quotes in this post. You will be a smarter person is you search on “Clarence Darrow quotes” and spend a few minutes reading what he said. Seriously. Abide