The Ides +2 of November

Our guv, Bill Richardson, is 58 today.

Judge Wapner is 86. Raymond Babbitt sends his greetings.

Ed Asner, who will always be Lou Grant to me, is 76.

Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965), artist Georgia O’Keefe (1887-1986), Field Marshal Edwin Rommel (1891-1944), Governor (of New York) Averell Harriman (1891-1986) and U.S. Air Force General (and George Wallace running-mate) Curtis LeMay (1906-1990) were all born on this date.

I was going to refer to this as the Ides of November, but learned the 15th was the Ides only in March, May, July, and October. In the other Roman months, including this, the ninth month, the Ides was the 13th. By the way, NewMexiKen has been watching the HBO series Rome and I’m pretty sure something bad is going to happen to Julius Caesar just as it did to Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood. History has a way of eliminating the most interesting character.