The only race with genuine long-term implications last week was Rand Paul's victory by a margin of some 24 percentage points in Kentucky's Republican senatorial primary.
This history has important implications today.
"But it does not necessarily have serious implications today.
"It has very different economic implications today," said Louis Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson Associates.
This would all be tragedy enough except that there are even more profound implications today.
The fact that cotton is often grown to the exclusion of other crops could have catastrophic implications this winter.
Contrary to Mr Krugman's implications, today's Gilded Age income gaps do not imply Gilded Age lifestyle gaps.
As a result of the Firestone recall, Standard & Poor's put Bridgestone and its United States subsidiary on its CreditWatch list with negative implications today, which means the company's credit rating might be downgraded.
Not because my utterances were themselves significant, but because those were the first few moments of a journey so strange, rich and life-altering that I am still trying to grapple with its implications today.
And although these events occurred thousands of years ago, Lyman says that they have important implications today.
