A Real October Surprise
Finally... news I can use. Rebecca Solnit (Stop Leftsplaining!) in Mother Jones: " One manifestation of this indiscriminate biliousness is the statement that gets aired every four years: that in...
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My Father's Gift To Me
Long before the first e-mails and instant messages and some fallen angel invented blogging, we ordinary folks who had an urge for real-time communication with strangers used radio. Wireless telegraphy...
View ArticleDostoevsky Predicted Blogging
Old Fyodor nailed the literary pretensions of his lessers and in a way predicted the curse of those possessed by the need to express themselves in public. This is from his Devils (The Possessed)...
View ArticleRemembering Uncle Ho
Twenty-five years ago as a first-year grad student I was invited on a short research visit to Vietnam, which was just opening up to westerners. Over a holiday weekend I wrote an e-mail to some of my...
View ArticleNot Playing With a Full Deck... and more
It probably was not the first such description of the recipient's mental prowess, but it reminded me of other ones that never fail to tickle me, like "Two sandwiches short of a picnic" and "Not pulling...
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