Two Extremes in Searching
I just looked at my recent Blogpatrol search terms and want to highlight two of them:
15/04/2005 13:06:12 "queen of sky" feet (Google)
I can safely state that, at least at the time of her termination from Delta, Queen of Sky had two feet. To my knowledge, she has not increased or decreased this number.
It turns out that this search hit my blog because my post Deblogpatrolling Candice Michelle Beckman, which discussed the feet of the Godaddy girl, also included a link to the Queen of Sky blog. No, I don't know if Bob Parsons supports Queen of Sky's cause.
15/04/2005 12:02:04 how did baron charles de montesquieu create the atmosphere for revolution and the eventual rise of Nationalism? (Google)
This hit my blog because of a post on tax exemption for churches; the good Baron basically argued that churches could be neutralized by granting them favors. (Seems to have worked.) But he talked about more than churches ([1] [2]):
Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat
Montesquieu was one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Insatiably curious and mordantly funny, he constructed a naturalistic account of the various forms of government, and of the causes that made them what they were and that advanced or constrained their development. He used this account to explain how governments might be preserved from corruption. He saw despotism, in particular, as a standing danger for any government not already despotic, and argued that it could best be prevented by a system in which different bodies exercised legislative, executive, and judicial power, and in which all those bodies were bound by the rule of law. This theory of the separation of powers had an enormous impact on liberal political theory, and on the framers of the constitution of the United States of America.
Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
born Jan. 18, 1689, Château La Brède, near Bordeaux, France
died Feb. 10, 1755, Paris
French philosophe and satirist.
Born into a noble family, he held public office in Bordeaux from 1714. His satirical Persian Letters (1721) was hugely successful. From 1726 he traveled widely to study social and political institutions. His magnum opus, the enormous The Spirit of the Laws (1750), contained an original classification of governments by their manner of conducting policy, an argument for the separation of the legislative, judicial, and executive powers, and a celebrated but less influential theory of the political influence of climate. The work profoundly influenced European and American political thought and was relied on by the framers of the U.S. Constitution. His other works include Causes of the Greatness and Decadence of the Romans (1734).
But we still don't know what his feet looked like.
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