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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Front-Row Seats on Broadway, if You Dare

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Mrs. Palfrey

“She did not explain to him how deeply pessimistic one must be in the first place, to need the sort of optimism she now had at her command.” (85)

Yo? Yo me voy

Such times test a man's soul

Margaret Bourke-White

Undeserved is something we cannot judge and the very word has to be exiled outside our consciousness or we could waste what little life we have ahead by complaining that we don't deserve such a fate.

In search of melancholy baby

Emigrating is something like going to your own funeral, the only difference being that after your funeral your nervous system calms down

Words

perlicue: space between the extended forefinger and thumb
decussate: cross or intersect so as to form a cross
lipogram: avioding one or more letters of alphabet
univocalic: using only one vowel
Perendinate

Narrative

Janet Malcolm paraphrased in "Body of Lies" by David Ignatius: the only narrative that can not be questioned is fiction.

12 January 2009

Duke

"Without a problem," Duke Ellington is quoted saying, "how much interest do you take in anything?"

Churchill

Mr. Churchill, you are drunk.

Madame, you are ugly.

Mr. Churchill, you are extremely drunk!

And you, Madame, are extremely ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober.

Advice

If you really want to do something, you will find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Aim Here

Better aim: look at the fly

Buddha

Believe nothing,
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason,
And your own common sense

Bird

Bird lives

Prez

The President of the tenor sax

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Analytical Graphics, Inc.
Richard Parker - Harvard Kennedy School
Stephen Carter - Yale Law
Kenneth A. Rahn
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
Anders Aslund
Group of 30
Robert Shiller - Economist
Kay Thompson - actress, and more
Chile flora.com
Daily Tech.com
Tech Crunch
Beet.tv
WordNet Dictionary
Jesse J Holland
Citizens Briefing Book
Poetry Foundation
Alicia Suskin Ostriker - Poet
Economic Policy Institute
Ben's Chili Bowl
Beirut-based Daily Star
Rami G. Khouri
Livastation
World/Inferno Friendship Society
David Shuster - MSNBC
Keith Olbermann
Allafrica.com
Center for Treansatlantic Relations
School of Advanced International Studies
Post Global
Andrew J. Vacevich - Boston U
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Daily Nation - Kenya
Jonathan Sarna
Jurist
Int'l Crisis Group
Rifftides jazz blog
Center for Global Development
Travel Wiki
More or Less
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Middle East Forum
Plos One journal
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Jewish Exponent
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EU Digital Library
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Black Americans in Congress
Humor in the News
State Dept. blog
Watergate.com
International Comparative Political Parties Project
Urlwire.com
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biomedical literature search engine
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Gene Robinson - D.C. Post
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The Ronettes
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Philip Nel's Web Links
Elvin Lim
E. E. Piphanies
Structured Procrastination
Play Auditorium
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Capital Ideas
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Ron Brownstein - Atlantic
Peter Morici
Robert Solow Nobel lecture
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The Week
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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Publicis Live
Sarah Stein (History Dept. UCLA)
Inter Press Service
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Rights and Accountability in Development
Jonathan Turley - GW Law
Larry Bartels - Princeton polisci
Austan Goolsbee - Chicago Law
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LP to CD
Michelle Obama's fashion
Metropolitan Center think tank
Crosswordese
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Peniel Joseph
Phillipines
Jazz Discography Project
Clive Crook blog
Wonkette: lefty blog
Pollster.com
Municipal Bonds.com
Allafrica.com

Wisdom

What you give is yours for good;
What you keep is lost forever.

A motto

"I know I could be a better human being, but I am an old dog content with my many shortcomings." Don Borchert

Bubba's shadow

A nightmare scenario

She concedes, sorta

Ché

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Magnus in Chichester

9 December 2005

VIX

VIX - CBOE Volatility Index

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