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8.12.09 4:30 PM |
Odd things happen in the dog days... Yesterday evening - 97 under a high white sky - at the bus stop in Laurel (the main one, at the Mall), I was waiting for the B bus amid a crowd of people...
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8.11.09 4:07 PM |
So, let me get this straight. There are actually people out there who think that their friends (okay, acquaintances), neighbors, and political representatives want to (a) set up death panels to...
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8.10.09 6:04 AM |
This week's yummy science:
* Ed at Not Exactly Rocket Science talks about the intelligence of corvids: Aesop's fable "The Crow and the Pitcher" has been confirmed in a wonderful experiment....
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8.9.09 11:35 PM |
Film: Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg which was a fascinating documentary of somebody I'd never heard of despite being ranked #2 on the Most Important Women in America list (after Eleanor Roosevelt).
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8.9.09 8:37 AM |
Today 1938, in Rockhampton, Australia, Rod Laver was born. The only man to win the Grand Slam tournaments in a single year twice, Rocket Rod was the first tennis player I ever followed. I loved to...
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8.8.09 9:45 PM |
I just came back from seeing Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg. It was fascinating - I'd never heard of Gertrude Berg, or The Goldbergs as either a TV or radio show. But there were a couple of odd moments.
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8.8.09 12:02 PM |
Over at the Comic Curmudgeon Josh is always ragging on the "weird nonspecifity" of _Herb and Jamaal_, in which they never use anything but vague, generic references. For instance, "Wow, check out...
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8.8.09 10:44 AM |
Today in 1884, in St Louis, Missouri, Sara Teasdale was born.
**In the Train**
Fields beneath a quilt of snow
From which the rocks and stubble peep,
And in the west a shy white...
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The Greenbelt
8.7.09 9:01 PM |
I and the Bird is celebrating its fourth! anniversary. Fittingly, it's at 10,000 Birds, and it's a truly stupendous edition. It begins like this:
> So here we are, we bird bloggers, four years...
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8.7.09 8:13 AM |
Another Kobayashi Issa haiku from the daily Issa:
heavy frost
on the old house, its owner
in the ground
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The Greenbelt
8.6.09 2:09 PM |
... or even imagined it. This is astonishing. Those dogs are brilliant.
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8.6.09 5:57 AM |
Born today in 1809 in Somersby in Lincolnshire, England, Alfred Tennyson, later (at 75 and for his poetry!!!) Baron Tennyson. The most popular and best-selling poet of his day (or any,...
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8.5.09 9:22 PM |
On the pilot episode of _Leverage_, "There are wolfs in the world," Zoë says. Nate looks at her quizzically. "That's what Dad says," she elaborates. "'Be careful, Zoë: there are wolfs in the...
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8.5.09 8:07 PM |
Want your own? Go get it!
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8.5.09 5:56 AM |
Today in 1889 in Savannah, Georgia, Conrad Aiken was born. His poems won a Pulitzer, but he was never wildly popular, which is a shame. Many of them are too long to post here, but this one...
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8.4.09 8:03 PM |
Paul Krugman has an interesting question (my emphasis):
> Art Laffer (why is he, of all people, on my TV?) asks what it will be like when the government runs Medicare and Medicaid.
But I’d...
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8.4.09 6:17 AM |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, born this day 1792. He drowned while sailing, in 1822, before his thirtieth birthday, but still managed to produce many poetic masterpieces. He was twice married, the...
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8.4.09 6:16 AM |
Louis Armstrong, great jazz trumpeter and no mean singer, either, born today in 1901. His recordings with Ella Fitzgerald are classics. His Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings practically created...
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8.4.09 6:03 AM |
Today in Winchester, Kentucky, in 1920 Helen Thomas was born. An Arab-American and a woman, she's forged a path few of any ethnicity or gender have followed. The longest-serving White House...
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8.3.09 6:14 AM |
It was today in 1904, in Millville, Wisconsin, that Clifford Simak was born. A practicing journalist for most of his life - in Minneapolis - he also wrote brilliant and award-winning science...
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