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Today we celebrate the birthday of Gioseffo Zarlini, born in 1517. He was an Italian Renaissance music theorist and composer.

One of Maryland's most high-accident traffic places is Chancellor's Run Road in Saint Marys County. It's a tiny little country lane that jaunts from Three Notch Road down to Great Mills Road. It's a favorite bypass route for folks coming down from Wash DC who wanna get to Great Mills without going through the massive permanent traffic jam of Lexington Park. Folks routinely ignore the already-too-high 40 mph speed limit, so there's about 10 or 15 major accidents a day.

So the state has earmarked a coupla billion clams to upgrade it to a multi-lane divided superhighway. I'm not sure why. Who'd ever wanna go to Great Mills, anyhow? In fact, how many people have ever even heard of the place? Well, the Brass Rail Bar & Grille (our local redneck watering hole) is there, so maybe that explains why so many of the accident participants are drunk.

But anyhow, the state has gotta buy lotsa people's property, at premium prices, of course, because land speculators have already swooped through in hopes of making big bucks. Maryland taxpayers are taking the green weenie in the ear.

And so here's my plug for one of my favorite books, Progress And Poverty by Henry George, which explains how this sorta connivery happens and what we oughta do about it.

There's some possibility that Dennis Kucinich and Ralph Nader may have read it, or other books like it, but the rest of the presidential hopefuls appear to be blissfully unaware.

Oh well, I guess we're doomed to another four years of economic stagnation.

Happy Stagnating!

OrneryPest