“I think I became cooler when I stopped trying to be cool.”
e-Book phenomena Amanda Hocking, quoted in “Storyseller,” NYTimes Magazine, June 19, 2011: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/magazine/amanda-hocking-storyseller.html
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Life is the precious thing.
Word’s their mere adornment.
Oh, but what an adornment!
So much wider than gold.
Posted in New York Diary, Poetics
Humphrey and Harrison "celebrating" my birthday last week.
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Left photo: Wisconsin Tourism Board; Right photo: unknown.
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America the Beautiful, performed by Katherine Lee Bates and Adesso: http://www.alcorngallery.com/adesso//
Posted in Politics, The American Experience
Egypt meets hope. We Americans can take pride in a new foreign policy vision that is truly democratic, historically informed, mindful of unintended consequences and less willing to suffer the explicit abridgment of human rights in the name of our own, narrow national interests.
“There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom,” the President quotes Martin Luther King to remind us how today’s Egyptians’ struggles are so like our own. And the soul rejoices, too, in the measured, grown-up, forward looking response of our grown-up, measured President. He offers nothing less than a new hope that the events of the past weeks suggest that America’s conflict with the Muslim world has been the historical abberation, and not a cultural or historical inevitability. And he inspires the hope that Americans may yet come to better understand our most basic commonality not just with the Egyptians of Tahrir Square, but with the common peoples of the whole world: our common yearning to be free.
A brilliant speech, well worth watching in full:
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Due vecchi che hanno oltre il periodo consentito loro giorni.
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Chez Foley/Fleisig this Morning
The scene from my home office window.
Down the block, towards the river.
Some of our backyard guests going through part of their 5+ pounds a day of seed and suet.
One pair of long-term residents wait their turn at the feeder.
Posted in Life, The Universe, and Etc.
Although history is full of unintended consequences, I think we should give thanks that the “Arab Street” has finally turned its wrath on their real oppressors, the autocratic, quasi-monarchical and religio-demagogic oligarchs and dictators who rule their own countries.
Let’s just hope that the United States doesn’t reflexively come out in support of these reprehensible Middle Eatern regimes, as we have more often than not in the past, merely in the name of “stability.”
Posted in Politics, The American Experience
Speaker of the House John Boner. (Photomontage: thinkprogress.org.)
N. Def. Act of political suicide that John Boner and the 112th Congress are going to commit by shutting down the Federal government, not raising the debt ceiling, and seeking meaningless impeachment indictments against President Obama.
As the saying goes, first time as tragedy…
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Inspirations and Aspirations 