John Brown's Notes and Essays

7/31 The answer is NO to the invasion of plastic dumped all over the place/our homes!!! This am, while taking my near daily stroll/jog (taking much longer than I initially expected) in the NW distruct (sorry, meant district) of the   imperil  capital omg (another typo) I found, scattered all over the place: EIGHT PLASTIC BOTTLES !!! Of these eight (no, they have nothing to do with the Magnificent Seven flick!) two were of familiar labels mentioned on this blog (e.g., Deer Park), But first, label-less pwb on Tilden Street, was there, squashed on the Imperial Capital's street (Tilden Street) beyond recognition, What a poor, unrecognized pwb without a label! But another (cut in half, but with the label on the bottle surviving -- was a real find, worthy to a Plastic Water Museum on the Mall, for the historical (hysterical) record!!! Here's the label image: For previous entries on this blog, see

Benjamin Franklin’s “Autobiography” is an inventive personal record of his life before the Revolution, written with a sense of wit and cheerful optimism.   By  John Wilmerding, The Wall Street Journal June 28, 2019 1:59 pm ET Let us consider the contributions of Benjamin Franklin to American independence. The oldest of the Founding Fathers, he was possibly the most revolutionary. Of all his familiar discoveries and inventions, his “Autobiography” may well be the most original, and what he made of it paralleled the invention of America itself. Born in Boston in 1706, he is known to us as a longtime Philadelphian, with influential diplomatic postings to England and France. He did not begin writing his autobiography until later in life, working on it intermittently—first in London in 1771, then Paris in 1784, and in Philadelphia during the months before his death in 1790. It was published over the next few years. Chronologically, its composition coincide...

  This Blog is Dedicated to the Emperor of the Disunited-States, D. Trump!!!  7/30: Much non-Breaking but not Disappointing/Exciting Plastic Water Bottle News!!!!: Only one PWB found by your blogger, an lost-and-found item with an ever-present label (see above image), evidently the most popular H2O in the Imperial Capital! July 29, 2019 This blog is dedicated to the 45th President of the United States, D. Trump! FOR EARLIER BLOG ENTRIES, INCLUDING ITS "MISSION STATEMENT/ARCHIVES,"  SEE 7/29 [blog is updated near-daily; check its mission statement/archive) Much less than yesterdays's Top-Ten (see below), only six plastic water bottles (pwbs) found in my today's 75-minute pwb expeditionary jog/stroll in the North West (NW) section of the Imperial Capital (see below map). Well, OK, give me a break -- It can't match yesterday's ten-pbws take (see below) -- when ten pwbs were found by your blogger (bear in mind that Sunday was a ...

This blog is dedicated to the 45th President of the United States, D. Trump! FOR EARLIER BLOG ENTRIES, INCLUDING ITS "MISSION STATEMENT/ARCHIVES," SEE 7/29 [blog is updated near-daily; check its mission statement/archive) Much less than yesterdays's Top-Ten (see below), only six plastic water bottles (pwbs) found in my today's 75-minute pwb expeditionary jog/stroll in the North West (NW) section of the Imperial Capital (see below map). Well, OK, give me a break -- It can't match yesterday's ten-pbws take (see below) -- when ten pwbs were found by your blogger (bear in mind that Sunday was a day after Saturday, during which taxpayers, on a week-end break, forget/ignore on where to put their trash, and just dump it anywhere; such is a fully-functioning democracy [?]). Here is one image of an item, found by yours truly today, among of these hithertofore undiscovered plastic jewels/icons: And another ... Warning: JB label im...