Published August 21st, 2010 by

          Ray Bradbury is 90 this Sunday.  I wish him many happy returns.  I would also like to thank him for north of 53 years of enjoyment and enlightenment.           …

Published August 20th, 2010 by

          Stephen Budiansky has published a New York Times op-ed critical of localvores’ math.            ‘Local, Schmocal’.  The fuel usage numbers they cite to justify the virtue of eating locally…

Published August 16th, 2010 by

Hubris is not a shortcoming peculiar to any one constitutional form; and the inability to envisage nemesis is modern America’s distinctive failing.  Tony Judt, “America and the World,” New York…

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http://www.marcgunther.com/2010/08/15/social-funds-bp-the-1960s-and-greed/ This may be the single most intelligent article ever on socially responsible investing.

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One of the pleasures of reestablishing my habit of reading The New York Review of Books was discovering Tony Judt. A prolific, gifted writer, Judt’s commentary appeared, it seemed, in…

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‘They don’t make movies like they used to.’ That cliche usually tips a screed on unintelligent, adolescent, scatological flicks in contrast to the Golden Age’s smart, adult, clean cinema. Leaving…

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I am devoted to the fractured prose — if not the felonious intent — of ‘Nigerian prisoner letters’.  Now that I’ve become a blogger, I have a new source of…

Published August 12th, 2010 by

 One urban myth I’d like to strangle with the alligators in the sewers is that of Apple products’ intuitiveness. Some subscriber to this myth might establish my faith in this…