It's the birthday of the inventor of calculus, the mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, born in Woolsthorpe, England (1643). He solved many mysteries of physics involving light, optics, gravity, and motion. Newton always gave credit to his scientific predecessors for his achievements, and he wrote in his journal, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
It's also the birthday of one of the Grimm brothers, Jacob Grimm, born in Hanau, Germany (1785), who, with his younger brother Wilhelm, collected over 200 German folk tales of the early 19th century and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812), including "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "Snow White."
Join me today for the IDEA Café and the Denver Grassroots Rally, RSVP on links to the left or just show up. Then stick around if you want for Denver’s original Socrates Café, which follows at 6 pm; no RSVP, but you can’t find out more at www.philosopher.org
The Rocky Mountain News has a news article about the Colorado Caucus, sort of. Calls Colorado political leaders junkies. Obvious that the News would rather just have us all consume advertising and propaganda, then go into the voting booth to vote for whoever they have endorsed. The article is buried in the News Online edition, you can’t find it unless you know to look for it, no a sign of it on their front page.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jan/04/colo-political-junkies-look-ahead-to-states-feb/
At least the News has an article on the Colorado Caucus. Nothing in the Denver Post that I can see. How can the papers ignore what could be such a big Colorado story? One reporter told me it’s because they have cut so far back on reporters, there is just not time to cover local politics adequately.
Seems like a void that some competitor needs to fill. Good local government demands that we have a daily newspaper that takes Denver politics seriously, we don’t seem to have one now.
Will the newspaper to fill that void be the Denver Daily News? They’ve agreed to sponsor Ben Franklin’s Birthday at North High School January 17, along with the Villager Newspapers, the Colorado Statesman newspaper, and Blacktie. Net proceeds will benefit www.LibertyDay.org. You can find out more and get tickets on the link to the top left on this page. Let me know if you’d like group rates, or if you’d like to have a display table for your candidate or cause.
Here’s a fun way to follow the Presidential campaign:
Who’s followers are buying the most political buttons?
http://www.usabuttonpoll.com/
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