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
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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
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.
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.
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
[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
Watch and learn. Axé.
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School is starting soon, and we must away. Can you ever say farewell to the Faroes? Axé.
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