And writers, too, no doubt

English author Evelyn Waugh died on this day in 1966.

"If politicians and scientists were lazier," Waugh wrote, "how much happier we should all be."

For more on Waugh, visit Today in Farewells

Relatively speaking, that is

This is the birthday of Albert Einstein, born 1879.


"I have never met a man yet who understands in the least what Einstein is driving at...I very seriously doubt that Einstein himself knows what he is driving at." -- William Henry Cardinal O'Connor.

Today's Perverse Verse:

Apparently, E=MC squared
-- Has anyone ever cared?
It may be a gas
That energy is mass
To some;
But what's Einstein to us,
Who can't tell minus from plus?
-- A bum.