January 25, 2009
Alchemy, Chap 3 (beginning)
3 “You have five minutes to explain why you didn’t tell me that Cardozo is dead. Because that’s how long I’m going to wait before I call the […]
READ MOREJanuary 24, 2009
Reigns of Terror
I think I spent a good chunk of the last eight years writing letters to W, to his secretary of state, and to my senators, protesting everything from W’s dismemberment […]
READ MOREJanuary 20, 2009
The Inauguration
We watched with friends. I won’t add commentary, since we were all in the moment together, and it doesn’t need parsing. I thought Barack gave a good and forceful speech, […]
READ MOREJanuary 16, 2009
Your copyrights and google
In 2004, Google made arrangements with the University of Michigan to digitize their entire library, some seven or eight million volumes. Google planned to make this library available to the […]
READ MOREJanuary 10, 2009
Alchemy, chap 2, In which the Expected Occurs
2 Don Pasquale and his cronies lived in River Forest, an old suburb just west of Chicago, where Frank Lloyd Wright houses and a charming little shopping street make […]
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