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Old Guy Speaks Truth!! - 39 days ago
VOTE NO on 1!!!!!See this 86 year old veteran of World War 2 tell it like it is! Topics: Gay Rights
Behind the Laughter - 48 days ago
There’s a good Op-Ed by Bob Herbert this morning. It seems Conan O’Brien has been having fun making fun of Newark, NJ. Behind that laughter lies a nation full of urban tragedy. Our cities, as usual, are ignored and continue to... Topics: bob herbert, Crisis, Culture, Current Events, metro detroit, newark nj, PTSD, toxic wasteland, urban tragedy
Obama’s Nobel - 49 days ago
It’s probably true, as Minds Erased says, that the Nobel Peace prize is really like a Grammy Award, not based on merit, just a popularity contest, and only meant as a form of encouragement. Hendrick Hertzberg in the latest New Yorker (Oct. 19)... Topics: afghanistan, Awards, barack obama, Current Events, foreign policy, hendrik hertzberg, Iran, nobel peace prize, nuclear weaponry, Politics, tailban, zbigniew brzezinski
That Mechanics Congress - 67 days ago
Take a look at the side bar (on the right) on this blog. The third image down shows a crouching lion with link to the 16th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM) on June 27 – July 2, 2010.Looks like pretty heavy and... Topics: Conferences, crouching lion, mathematics, mechanics, sense of humor, thomas savarino
Rabbit finished (almost) - 67 days ago
This morning I finished the last book of the Rabbit quartet by John Updike. Of course, there’s that final, final Rabbit book, “Rabbit Remembered” as a novella Updike threw in after the series, not able to let go of the Rabbit idea I... Topics: Book Reviews, death obsession, john updike, rabbit angstrom, rabbit at rest, sexual obsessions
























