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Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 15:08 in politics, afghanistan, frank zappa, frank rich, op-eds, fort hood, pearl harbor day, loyal readership, reader recommendations
…. the fact that our country is once again falling into a morass if not an abyss, namely Afghanistan. Not that it makes much difference what I say here. My loyal readership has dropped down to a precious few, while most of it, such as it is,...
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Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 13:51 in gay rights
VOTE NO on 1!!!!! See this 86 year old veteran of World War 2 tell it like it is! Click here to view the embedded video....
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Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 08:34 in Culture, Current Events, crisis, ptsd, metro detroit, bob herbert, conan o brien, newark nj, toxic wasteland, urban tragedy
There’s a good Op-Ed by Bob Herbert this morning. It seems Conan O’Brien has been having fun making fun of Newark, NJ. Behind that laughter lies a nation full of urban tragedy. Our cities, as usual, are ignored and continue to suffer. ...
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Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 17:10 in politics, Barack Obama, Current Events, awards, iran, afghanistan, foreign policy, zbigniew brzezinski, nuclear weaponry, nobel peace prize, tailban, hendrik hertzberg
It’s probably true, as Minds Erased says, that the Nobel Peace prize is really like a Grammy Award, not based on merit, just a popularity contest, and only meant as a form of encouragement. Hendrick Hertzberg in the latest New Yorker (Oct. 19...
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Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 11:25 in mechanics, conferences, sense of humor, mathematics, crouching lion, thomas savarino
Take a look at the side bar (on the right) on this blog. The third image down shows a crouching lion with link to the 16th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM) on June 27 – July 2, 2010. Looks like pretty heavy and a...
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Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 11:05 in book reviews, john updike, rabbit angstrom, rabbit at rest, death obsession, sexual obsessions
This morning I finished the last book of the Rabbit quartet by John Updike. Of course, there’s that final, final Rabbit book, “Rabbit Remembered” as a novella Updike threw in after the series, not able to let go of the Rabbit idea ...
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Great blog! It now shares a comfortable space on my blogroll!
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