Thursday, July 23, 2009

And furthermore.....

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What do I find interesting in the story of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.? This: His next project on race, he said, will be rooted i...

"The Emotional Issue of Race in America"

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Offered to note the interesting shift of emphasis in the discussion of President Obama's response to the last question in his press conf...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Long ago and far away....

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I have some photos of the moon landing. They're as grainy and gray and fuzzy as the pictures you've seen recently, from the TV broa...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Vanity of vanities

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I knew this 30 years ago. No, really. When you read the emails by Gregory, King, Stephanopoulos and others, you start to understand why mo...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Travel Plans

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Planning the summer vacation. Had to get my map out.
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Got to get ourselves back to the Garden....

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Proof, once again, that I am reading all the wrong stuff :* A few years ago, when I was visiting the Dominicans in the Czech Republic, I spe...

Plus ca change....

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This Matt Taibbi article is getting attention because it purportedly rips the lid off of Wall Street scandals and goes to the heart of what...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

Happy Forth of Jooly!

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*Be kind to your web-footed friends. For a duck may be somebody's mother! Be kind to your friends in the swamp! Where the weather is ver...
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Friday, July 03, 2009

Huh. Well....

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Is it me, of have conservative politicians suddenly decided it really is all about them, and this decision is leading to self-destruction? T...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Humility is hard

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I understand that: humility is hard. And it looks nothing like this : So in the aftermath of this failure I want to not only apologize, b...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Where your treasure is

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This is the photo provided by the San Diego Sheriff's office touting their helicopter. I can't honestly tell if these deputies are ...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Candy is hard! It's hard!

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Been working all day for an event at a local bookstore selling this tonight at a book signing. The power of celebrity is truly appalling.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Μακάριοι οἱ πτωχοί

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The doctor walks into the basement room, the ER level of the hospital, a room empty except for you and the woman from your church you have j...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Coincidence? I think not....

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Prof. Wombat leaves this comment, which I find this morning: They all make the usual points, with which it's hard to disagree. But all a...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

"How to be Topp"

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"A gerund shut out. No place for it in one of my sentences." The discussion at the Crack Den turned to gerunds, and how they were ...

"Of making many books there is no end..."

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Because: a) I like Anthony b) I've nothing better to do; and c) The ideas expressed here are not necessarily those of the management,...
Monday, June 01, 2009

I blame literature

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No, really, I do. Dime novels, pulp fiction, 19th century romances, historical romances, Leatherstocking tales, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dum...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Regarding Sonia Sotomayor

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I'm always fascinated when people with no background in jurisprudence (the philosophy of law) take up questions like "How should ju...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Day 2009

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A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child?. . . .I do not know what it is any more th...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Take Me To The River

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Wade with me a moment: “As long as one supposes, concesso non dato , that religion has the slightest relation to what we thus call God, it c...