re: #92 Cato the Elder

Norman Borlaug. Patrick Swayze.

Which one will the media be crying over tomorrow, the second-rate actor or the scientist?

Borlaug died earlier in the week, and the NYT and other media outlets did a good job reporting his obit. Yet, most people don’t know who he was and the contributions he made. I knew of him mostly because of his opposition to Erhlich’s Population Bomb nonsense.