Wow two comments and an e-mail in one day.
This is new for me.

In the comment to the post below Mike Shupp explains to me that the famous victory was in "The battle was Blenheim, one of four major victories of the Duke of Marlborough in the war between England and Holland (one side) against France and her allies (the other side) around 1700."

I actually remember hearing about that on a masterpiece theater miniseries on Marlborough entitled "The First Churchill." I claim that, if forced to guess, I would have guessed that the Duke was the victorious general of the famous victory.

Go and read the comment, which argues that the victory really was important. One quibble there is a typo the XVI should be an XIV (one msut be caerful to get hte lteters in the rihgt order with roman numerals).

Angelica remains strangely courteous to me and suggests that I mosey over to her post here. On his blog, Brad made the same suggestion. I have actually been to battlepanda but didn't read the post so off I go. her comment argues against giving up on economics. Since I dialed up to e-mail a co-author about standard errors in oe regression and the correlation of disturbances in the two equations of a SUR, I guess I haven't given up. Since I got distracted and surfed blogs, I fear I am getting close.

reading all the great posts at www.battlepanda.com. I actually got to the one which linked to me (thanks again) but mainly wish I were the ethical werewolf and had invented the word "mathalicious."

I will comment on the actual post "Neither Dismal nor a Science" above.

Finally I got an e-mail

In http://rjwaldmann.blogspot.com/2003/04/isnt-there-existence-theorem-proving.html
which I really enjoyed, through what you mean by policy remained a bit
fuzzzy, it seems as if you mean some change in the institutional
structure away from a perfect market is that right?

Alas the original purpose of this email was to ask you if you
remembered what the source of the quote is? since I was pondering on
putting it in a paper (which is due tomorow).

thank you very much for your time,

Uh oh tomorrow you say (name witheld). Uhm well (name withheld) I heard Robert Barro say that, but I don't think it is written down anywhere. I never worried about my responsibilities as a blogger, but deadlines make me very nervous.