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11 Sep 2010, 9:44 am
"1 of 33" The Names By Billy Collins06 September 2002, New York Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night. A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze, And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows, I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened, Then Baxter and Calabro, Davis and Eberling, names falling into place As droplets fell through the dark. Names printed on the ceiling of the night. Names slipping around a watery bend. Twenty-six willows on the banks of a stream. In the… [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 9:32 am
I don't see why we should denigrate the traditional Japanese art form of Kabuki theater by comparing it to the Kagan hearings. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 7:01 pm
Craziness. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 7:02 pm
Somebody should do a cartoon of a small child, with "National Debt" on its little shirt asking "Who was my Daddy?" [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 9:39 am
I was upstairs pouting (long story, I'm over it now) reading about Tocqueville, and everybody else was downstairs watching Rome, when the house starting shaking. This was the first earthquake I have been in when I started to get concerned. It shook for a long time and started to get more intense before it settled down. There have been a lot of these little quakes lately. It is making me a little jittery. Still, it gives me something to worry about until the fire season starts. [read post]
21 May 2010, 8:56 am
It sounds like the Marine Corps is not all that popular within the current Pentagon establishment and this administration. Not a big surprise. It's hard to imagine the Marines ever making a policy out of apologize and engage. I have always found the periodic notions of getting rid of the Marines or having them swallowed up by another branch of the armed services just insane. If for no other reason than it is just impossible to build up the sort of institutional capability, culture and… [read post]
11 May 2010, 5:06 pm
Jay Cost is a consistently thoughtful analyst of politics. This is good. I think it's somewhat too charitable, in that it's doesn't quite capture the corrosiveness of our young President's mendacity, but you can't do everything in one essay. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 2:12 pm
Important WSJ editorial. Yep, it's a nightmare. [read post]
25 Nov 2009, 6:25 pm
To each his own, but IMHO this is not the way a woman should look. This is. [read post]
17 May 2008, 5:09 pm
I woke up this morning at 5.30 because I get up every morning at that time. I could have slept later this morning but one's body betrays one. It is time to get up, even if you are still exhausted. Well, hung over might be more accurate, since one Arrogant Bastard Ale in the big bottle and half a bottle of cab seems to be more than I can really handle these days, unjust though that may be. We watched Juno last night. I had no idea what hit… [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 8:16 am
I think my readers know me well enough to know that I don't suck up to big time bloggers, so this post is not an attempt to suck up to Glenn Reynolds. It is inspired instead by the remarkably ignorant email from some NYC dweller he posted regarding Tennessee. I just thought I would relate my brief exposure to Tennessee, though this comes from quite a while ago when I was in practice. My firm was representing a small manufacturing company that made extremely high quality… [read post]
2 Feb 2008, 4:47 am
For me, this is more fun and exciting than the Superbowl -- Microsoft makes a play for Yahoo. This will be great. If I teach M&A next year, it should be wonderful grist for the mill. At least I will enjoy it. I am very skeptical that Microsoft can absorb Yahoo in anything like a way that would make them a serious threat to Google, but at least some people at Google must be wondering. No doubt messages have been left on Page and Brin's phones and… [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 11:23 am
So have you noticed in academic circles the recent tendency to begin sentences with the word "so"? I first noticed this only a few months ago when I crawled up the food chain to go to a conference at NYU Law School at which were in attendance a number of well-known youngish scholars from prestigious institutions. A rather striking number of exchanges went something like this: Q: What is your theory and why should I not ridicule it?A: So you are looking for a… [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 10:30 am
If you are a skier, this will fill you with envy and longing. But we are alive, and not all of them are. The movie is coming out in a week or so. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 7:34 pm
The family unit and I are camped out in a seedy motel in La Mesa, having been evacuated from our lovely home. It's going to be too close for comfort. It already is. But many in SD have lost their homes already. My older brother, a former volunteer fireman, talked me out of standing and fighting the fires, with talk of third degree burns and burn units. Then a deputized sheriff lady showed up in my drive way and basically ordered us to leave. … [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 5:15 pm
I don't want anybody to get hurt, but a giant rock from space crashing into the earth is just about the coolest thing I can think of. Except maybe for an alien invasion, or the first discovery of some sort of interstellar drive. There, now you know the worst. I was born in 1957 and it happened to a lot of us. I really wish I could go to Peru and check this out. I don't care about the poison gases. I would wear some sort of special… [read post]
23 May 2007, 5:52 pm
Here's something on Fat Mike's new movie Sicko. Freedom isn't free, and if you had any doubt whether the first amendment was free, I offer you Michael Moore. The post above makes the point that obese, none-too-healthy guys like MM are one of the drains on the US health system. But my point is, does anybody have the faintest doubt that if Herr Michael had a serious health problem, of a life threatening variety, such as a serious heart attack, or cancer, he would be… [read post]
3 Mar 2007, 12:41 pm
Alerted by the Glenstapundit, I found this on YouTube. Hmmm hmmmm good. [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 5:12 pm
It's the Old Spice experience test. I thought I would do much better. I think of myself as a manly man. I would even use Old Spice deodorant, but it gives me a rash. I did very badly on the parts of a cow, but I have actually killed a cow and helped butcher it, which I think should give me some extra credit. My job was to cut the cow's throat with an Army surplus bayonette, which I did, but the whole experience put me off eating meat until much later that day. I got some wilderness… [read post]
10 Jan 2007, 10:32 am
OK, I stole the title, but it's cute. It's Ahnold's heath care plan proposal, which might have been drafted by Skynet (watch the movie). I liked him better when he was a Republican. Or sort of Republican. [read post]
