Over at the American Spectator, I express skepticism over Brett Favre’s retirement announcement:
No doubt Brett means it when he says he’s done. But that could change tomorrow. It all depends on what hurts more: his ankle, or the thought of seeing his old team(s) win without him. Expect the Vikings to do all they can to push him towards the latter.
As a Packer fan, a Favre retirement does bode well for my team. But I will miss seeing him play if he really is done.
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Echoes of both Kant, and of human decency:
“[I]t is always immoral to treat men as means and not ends.”
-Bertrand de Jouvenel, Capitalism and the Historians (F.A. Hayek, ed.), p.96
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When King Tutankhamen’s tomb was discovered in 1922, six chariots were among the artifacts found inside. One of them even had some wear and tear; maybe Pharaoh had personally used it for hunting.
It is even possible that falling off that very chariot caused the broken leg that is believed to have ultimately killed him at the age of 18 or so. That chariot is now on display in New York as part of a traveling exhibition of Tutenkhamen’s artifacts.
Getting the chariot from Egypt to New York was quite an ordeal. At roughly 3,300 years of age, the wood is fragile. First it was carefully packed into a truck and driven to Cairo from the Luxor museum. Then it was loaded onto a New York-bound cargo jet. A curator was by its side at all times.
Once it arrived stateside, the New York Times tells of an unexpected regulatory hurdle through which the chariot had to pass before leaving JFK International Airport for its Times Square destination and painstaking reassembly:
When New York traffic officials reviewed the papers required for the oversize truck that would transport the chariot into Manhattan, they saw that the cargo inside was classified as a vehicle, and demanded its Vehicle Identification Number.
“I’m totally serious,” said Mr. Lach, the exhibition’s designer. “But we got it cleared up.”
Good for them. The exhibit is on until January 2 if you care to look for the chariot’s VIN yourself.
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Inertia Wins! 