links for 2009-10-30

IN NOVEMBER 1864 Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman arrived in Milledgeville, then Georgia’s capital, with 30,000 soldiers. He left a couple of days later after sacking the statehouse, destroying the state arsenal and powder magazine, burning the state penitentiary, railroad depot and Oconee bridge, and taking everything edible or of value from the surrounding countryside.

Now the national economy, aided by the forces of Georgia government, appears intent on seeing if they can finish the job.
...Sherman almost did it in — after first having burned Rome down. Both cities, along with many others, struggled back and remained viable communities. It would be terrible to stand by and watch some Georgia bureaucrats finally accomplish what Sherman couldn’t.