Emerson, DC

I got my weekly column from Garrison Keillor in the e-mail today.  He wants to rename Washington DC.  He wants to name it after Ralph Waldo Emerson, the New England transcendental thinker and essayist who had such an influence on Henry David Thoreau.

"Bad times have a scientific value," Emerson wrote a long time ago.  "These are occasions a good learner would not miss... This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."

Keillor says, "This year, we have seen the worst.  Good.  Now we know what it is.  Now we can rise above it and join forces and work for what should be - equality, justice, prosperity and good sense."

In case you were wondering, this kind of sums up the whole point of this blog.