Nick Clegg
14/08/2011
This is what privilege looks like: activities and attitudes that would get you serious jail time and massive disapproval if undertaken and evinced by members of the lower classes. Axé.
Summer
13/08/2011
We took canoes down a bayou to the Gulf and walked working beaches. The other vessels were tugboats, crew boats, barges, shrimpers, and pirogues with outboard motors. There were seagulls, sandpipers, cormorants, egrets, and pelicans of many sizes. Swimming alongside us came thirteen dolphins, some quite small, somersaulting around and around. Intrepid children swam way … More Summer
Isaac Casaubon
12/08/2011
Sam Stark’s “Let Us Dispute” in The Nation (August 15/22, 2011): 42-45 is a truly fascinating review essay on Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg, “I Have always loved the Holy Tongue.” Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2011). Casaubon (1559-1614), upon one earlier, less interesting portrait of … More Isaac Casaubon
Five Nights of Bleeding
12/08/2011
Axé.
Frustration
12/08/2011
This post is dedicated to Stupid Motivational Tricks, because that is a site about Getting It Done. The bottom line regarding life today is, I need a handyman but cannot get one because, they all say so far, the job I want them for is too small. I have guests coming this weekend and little … More Frustration
Rising Tide 2011
11/08/2011
Lo dicho, Rising Tide. Despite how busy we are, let’s try to all go. Update: I am going. Here is the blog and here is the poster. Axé.
Forum on Louis Armstrong
10/08/2011
We are now taking nominations of versions of this song — Armstrong versions of it, of course — to decide which is the most syncopated and has the most swing. Leave suggestions in the comments box, y’all, and discuss! Axé.
Insurance, and the Economy
10/08/2011
At 1:34 Eastern Time today the Dow-Jones average had sunk 338 points, which is about 100 points an hour. I already don’t have dental or vision insurance and now my MD has dropped out of the insurance plan as well. I discovered this after and not before this year’s visit and the related routine tests. … More Insurance, and the Economy
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking IX
09/08/2011
[The mockingbird still sings:] Land! land! O land! Whichever way I turn, O I think you could give me my mate back again, if you only would; For I am almost sure I see her dimly whichever way I look. O rising stars! Perhaps the one I want so much will rise, will rise with … More Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking IX
Darcus Howe
09/08/2011
Watch and learn. Axé.
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