The wine before Adam . . .
Thursday, March 5, 2026. It's Thor's day. cloudy. slight chance for a stray shower or thunderstorm. High near 70F. Easy Southeasterlies. Upper 60s.
Today is the 256th anniversary of the Boston Massacre. The legal case that followed became a famous example of extraordinary fairness and good judgment by the patriot and future politician John Adams.
Gerardus Mercator was born on this day in 1512 Rupelmonde, Flanders (now Belgium). He developed the world mapping technique that we still use today and call the “Mercator projection.”
And, novelist Leslie Marmon Silko is 78 today. A pioneer in the Native American literary movement, she was born in 1948 Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The flap over the Epstein files continues, and clearly will not go away, war or no war. – Heather Cox Richardso posted an update in Letters From An American.
Trump's war is actively destroying the moral basis of civilization. It's our duty to put a stop to it. – Robert Reich, at substack, 3.5.26\\
Blessed are those who, like Hafez,
have tasted in their hearts
the wine made before Adam.
– Hafez, circa 17th C