Good morning, Whitewater.
Midweek in Whitewater will be mostly sunny, with a high of seventy-seven, and a one-third chance of showers in the late afternoon. In the city today, sunrise is 5:44 AM and sunset 8:18 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with twelve percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Sometimes you get the elephant, and sometimes the elephant gets you:
On this day in 1857, a noted theorist is born in Wisconsin:
1857 – Thorstein Veblen Born
On this date economist and social commentator Thorstein Bunde Veblen was born in Cato, although some sources place his birth in Valders. He is best known for his book The Theory of The Leisure Class (1899), a classic of social theory that introduced the concept of “conspicuous consumption.” [Source: The Radical Academy]
Google-a-Day asks a question of art:
While lead architect of the new St. Peter’s project, what was Michelangelo’s design contribution to the project?