U.S. Navy Seabees are presented with the Purple Heart medal on May 8, 2006, for wounds received while serving in support of the war on terror. They are assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 123 at Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport, Miss. DoD photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ja'lon A. Rhinehart, U.S. Navy. (Released)

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Matt Delaney focuses down the street as he patrols a neighborhood Al Ish, Iraq, on April 27, 2006. Delaney is attached to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines. DoD photo by Cpl. Brian M. Henner, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)

It is sad that the world has lost John Kenneth Galbraith, the great Canadian-born economist and leading proponent of progressive, liberal politics. A fine profile of his life is given in great detail on wikipedia. To read this profile log on to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/. Few academics have been able to match his ability to communicate economics to such large audiences or be so actively involved in politics as he was, especially during the Kennedy era. It is with some embarrassment that I have not read his most famous work, The Affluent Society, 1958. However, I have ordered a copy from Amazon and I am hoping to read it very soon.

© Cagle Cartoons 2006 Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant
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