Well, he just lost the Northeast...

[orichalcum]

Breaking new ground in hedging, Bill Richardson claims to be both a Red Sox and a Yankees fan.

I'd like to have more support for Richardson. He's got lots of foreign policy and governmental experience and seems like a nice guy and is from a minority background. But the man seems to have extraordinarily low charisma for a trained diplomat.

I also still remain confused about the depth of Hillary Clinton's support, given that I have a hard time locating hard-core Clinton fans.

Lots of grading to do. Amusingly, my class's Wikipedia articles have already changed the Google results for a variety of my own common research topics.

Meanwhile, my students remain confused about Constantine's family tree. Not that I blame them - what possessed him to name his sons Constantine, Constantius (II, after his father), and Constans? Even in Latin it's not much better.

The Romans needed more names. If I ever have a time machine, after I do the important things I'll give the Romans an extra two dozen first names and the Welsh and Czechs some real vowels.

Comments

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

Heck, just go back 25 or 30 years and post signs at a few North American hospitals noting that the names "Emily" and "Elizabeth" have sold out, and will not be available again until next year.

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Right. Williams banned from the 12th century, Katherines from the 15th and early 16th, Emily, Elizabeth, and Emma from the late 20th, to's getting an extra 'o.' And "Johns" restricted to one per kindergarten, everywhere.

I may need a bigger time machine.

[gee-tar.livejournal.com]

I do remember the admissions department saying that "Ben" was the most popular name in my college class. I'm not quite sure why parents of our social-economic stratum decided why that name was so cool circa 30 years ago, but they did.

Of course, "David" seems to have been reasonably popular for the past 3,000 years. It never really became the number 1 name, but it seldom fell below the top 10 either.