Remember the time Tom Friedman got pied at Brown and we ended up in a fine discussion? Remember links to Crooked Timber‘s insights a time or two during campaign season?
Well, draw those two memories closer to prepare for this fascinating Crooked Timber post. Pivoting from the pieing/shoeing of public figures (which rather amuses him), CT poster Daniel makes his way into a surprise-rich discussion of the world’s most dangerous occupations. And he reveals that, statistically, by far the most hazardous job in history is U.S. President.
Before you go read more, though, any guesses on the regular/non-public-figure/workaday job most likely to get you killed? Pre-peeking or -Googling, whaddaya bet?
Too-close looking at the fresh news is hard on my holiday mood, so I’m not going to do that right now. But you’re certainly welcome to point out whatever interests you . . .
UPDATE: Ah. I found a pretty, taken 40 years ago today. Did you tear up as they read from Genesis? I did.
NASA, Apollo 8
My pick was “Mrs. Drew Peterson,” but I guess, technically, that’s not an occupation.
Was just wondering why Cinnamon sometimes tastes different to me. Turns out there are many ways of getting “cinnamon” and many interesting uses for it other than as a flavoring:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamaldehyde
Funny you should mention cinnamon, DLM, just as I’m reading about it in WaPo.
A toast!
When I was in about 6th-7th grade, the cool thing to do was go to the pharmacist for a little vial of cinnamon oil in which to dip toothpicks to suck and chomp on. Very hot on the tongue in that form.
Don’t know who that is, Dr X, but your post on blindsight is killah.
Ooh. Will go there immediately.
As with oregano, there are different things that are called cinnamon, aren’t there?
Yep, that’s pretty well explained in the WaPo story I linked, NMC. Most of what we get isn’t actually cinnamon but its close relative cassia. Now I’m wondering if I’ve ever tasted real cinnamon before.
If you make an effort, you can get real cinnamon– it’s not that hard to find. I think I became aware of this in the 80s when i started doing Mexican recipes that call for stick cinnamon and saw an explanation in a recipe that insisted I get the real thing.
I should get out Dianna Kennedy’s books and see if they don’t say how to sort between varieties. I think they do.
The article in the Wash Post reminds me how you tell– brick red is cassia, and pale brownish red is cinnamon.
Okay, looks like I’ve got cassia powder and cinnamon sticks on hand. Thanks.
Happy Holiday’s Lotus and kitty cats.
All i’m asking for Christmas is to get my mo-jo back.
I’ve gone from a poster to a lurker but I won’t you to know how much I appreciate Folo for all the hard digging on Scruggs 1. Most of everthing would have been out of veiw if not for you and NMC.
Thanks to Ben Cole, Confounded,AFOTL, Jim(where every you are)and many many more.
Looking for P L Blake, by this crew, was like The US looking for Osama.
Looking forward to Scruggs 2.
So so sorry we missed you in Oxford, but with this sucker going down, plane tickets may get to be a dime a dozen.
(((Hugs))) And will call when I get my mo-jo over the blubbers.
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Bless your sweet heart — the sincere meaning — hon. Dadgummit, I got just about a dozen dimes leff, so maybe if I spend ‘em slow, we’re in luck. You finish making your comeback while I keep looking for work, and somehow one of these days we’ll have our hug in person!
Merry Christmas and a BO-DACIOUS 2009 to you and yours!
THAT GOES FOR EVERYBODY.
Chicago is an interesting place. Found this on Overlawyered.
http://www.windypundit.com/archives/2008/12/the_mos_eisley_of_the_blogosph.html
Yow, windypundit better avoid the po-lice!
Merry Christmas, Al Franken! The (mostly Republican-appointed) MN Supremes today ruled unanimously against Normie Coleman. Justice Alan Page, the former football Viking, wrote the opinion.
My guesses for most dangerous occupations are (1) oil field roughnecks and (2) lumberjacks. The first killed my daddy. The second killed my brother. One or the other probably would have gotten me, but by the Grace of God and the United States Navy I was rescued from those occupations.
May they rest in peace, Ben. I’m sorry to hear about them and so glad your fate was different.
See the fascinating take on Syria I heard on the way home on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98694330
Nobody can be trusted but we have to talk.
Lotus Ben, Farmers are way up there also. I have seen numerous country boys without parts but that is morbidity not mortality- related not the same. For those too lazy to Google here is the data but not in a neat tabular form.
An older neat tabular form
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/26/pf/jobs_jeopardy/
NL
Duplicate removed
from the department of redundancy department,
where I live and work and repeat myself like escher walking uphill all day long
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Happy Holidays to one & all from the DLM Family!