As I sat downward to read the NYT with my breakfast this forenoon I was struck by the ridiculousness of a headline only below the flexure on the front page: Despite Outcry, Gandhi's Meager Belongings Sell for $1.8 Million I bumped myself reading that headline threefold before it registered and sunk into my instead frayed encephalon. In brief, his modest ownerships were positioned upwardly for auction at Antiquorum Auctioneers in Manhattan today. These simple points doed upwards... read more