Childish Things
(continued from Feb. 7)

DENNIS OVERBYE

in The New York Times of May 16, 2008
(quoted here on that date):

“From the grave, Albert Einstein poured gasoline on the culture wars between science and religion this week.

A letter the physicist wrote in 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, in which he described the Bible as ‘pretty childish’….”

This morning’s New York Times:

Plane crash near Buffalo on Lincoln-Darwin bicentennial


The plane crashed at about 10:20 PM.

Meanwhile…

Yesterday evening in Springfield (as scheduled):

6:20 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives in Springfield, IL
 
7:00 PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks at the 102nd Abraham Lincoln Association Annual Banquet

8:30 PM THE PRESIDENT departs from Springfield, IL

Religious summary by
Buffalo Springfield:

“Stop, children,
what’s that sound?
Everybody look
what’s going down.”