Recently read6AM: Wake up after 3.5 hours of sleep.
7.25AM: Cab arrives five minutes early for ride to train station. I usually walk 30 minutes to Belmont station, but Blake is visiting San Francisco from Cincinnati and I’m meeting him early-ish in Palo Alto for breakfast.
8.07AM: Arrive in Palo Alto 23 minutes ahead of schedule. (I tend […]
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Yeah, that’s right.
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I’ve blogged ad nauseam about my friend Pat Phelan, so I’ll spare you my usual reverence and just say that if anybody qualifies for this award, it’s him. You can vote even if you’re not Irish!
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Jeff Nolan:
It will never happen because the very people who would presumably be doing the investigating have the most blood on their hands, but if any aspect of this financial crisis should be investigated it should be Congress itself. Members of Congress will no doubt claim “I didn’t know” or “I was hoodwinked like […]
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Johnathan Pearce, on “the lie, put around by a lot of MSM commentators, that what we are seeing is the demise of unregulated, cowboy capitalism”:
Au contraire, what we have seen is the failure of a large body of rules, assembled over many years, to do what they were supposed to do. In fact […] these […]
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I don’t know why this wasn’t a bigger hit for Solange Knowles; if her sister Beyoncé had done it, I am sure it would have been a huge summer smash. (The video for this song is BEYOND annoying, and I like this picture. You can find the video easily if you want to see just […]
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I’m begging a particularly eloquent, non-blogging friend to write a reaction to all of the complete crap being spouted about the supposed “immorality” of wealth (ugh). His emails alone on the topic are better than any published work I’ve read on this mess so far. Axioms like the following, noted by my friend via email, […]
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This book by Judith Herman, M.D. was a real eye-opener for me. In fact, I’m going to have to read it again just to process all of the data and analysis it contains. (Check out the first 50 or so pages on Google Books.) Dr. Herman had me at the introduction:
The ordinary response to […]
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This morning I boarded the Caltrain at my usual station and felt quite relieved that I’d got a monthly pass last week. I take pleasure in little things like not having to open my handbag, whip out my wallet and root through my seventeen debit cards and forty-six loyalty cards just to buy a train […]
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For what it’s worth, the person who wrote this is the same person who still can’t bear to throw away perfectly good plastic bags or aluminum foil.
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I got this laptop in April 2006 - it’s extremely lightweight but not so much that I’d throw it in my handbag just in case I needed it. Also, at this point it’s got a bunch of stuff on it that I don’t feel like archiving properly (yet), but I love the idea of starting […]
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It was amusing for a bit, but now I’m thinking we’ve all been had. The guy just CANNOT be this far up his own backside. Coren’s reaction to the Downfall parody of his irate email to Times sub-editors is brilliantly prickish:
I’m fluent in German, so watching it with subtitles is not quite as funny for […]
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