Courtesy of the AP (don’t sue me, bro!): “More than 13,000 homosexuals have been discharged from the military because of their sexual preferences.” This in the context of reporting on President Obama’s reception commemorating the Stonewall Riot, a social event at which Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach told the President “that I’m being thrown out as [...]
Archive for June 2009
DADT is a national security issue: Stonewall Riot anniversary repetition of the obvious
June 30, 2009The Bees of Brookline…Real Estate Schadenfreude Post
June 30, 2009This is just a little gift to y’all, or at least any of you enmeshed in house-renovation hell. My wife and I just completed the purchase of a house in the Boston-area city town of Brookline, noted for its truly first class public schools — a relevant fact for parents of an elementary school kid [...]
Diary of a Trade Book (Newton and the Counterfeiter) 10.0: A Tale of Two Covers
June 29, 2009A book’s cover is important, for all the false folk wisdom that you may have had. The more so if you can actually get your local book store to turn your treasured work face out, which is pretty much the only way a casual browser will find it. But however valuable a striking design may [...]
Everyone Else Is Done With Mirrors: Michael Jackson/Diana Ross coincidence edition
June 26, 2009It is a tiny world when it wants to be. Just twelve people, as they say, with the rest filled in with mirrors. I’d just finished my morning coffee and computer-parts run at the little shopping area on Memorial Drive in Cambridge (Our Fair City) when, just backing up my car out of my parking [...]
Michael Jackson RIP
June 25, 2009I have nothing to add to the gazillions of trees killed to discuss all the nooks and crannies of Michael Jackson’s life. 50 is too young. Without any evidence I’ll venture to guess that he led a life that was hard on his body. I wasn’t a fan of his music; I’m not that into [...]
Sanford Reax
June 25, 2009John Cole props Dickerson’s piece at Slate. I think Dickerson is very wrong in one part of his argument…this one: The snap judgments failed to acknowledge a grain of the fundamental human carnage we were witnessing. You can laugh at Sanford, as you can laugh at a video of a wrecked Amy Winehouse falling all [...]
Brain/Eye Candy
June 25, 2009“Flying” … a video by Sam Fuller more about "Brain/Eye Candy", posted with vodpod
And another thing: Unexamined assumptions get my goat too.
June 24, 2009Just following up on the last post. I almost never watch TV news — and especially not the local options. Leaving the TV on after the Obama town hall special reminded me why. First Dr. Tim Johnson opines that compromise on health care is needed to achieve a bipartisan solution, without anyone asking him why [...]
Factoids piss me off: Health Care Special edition
June 24, 2009Watching, post Red Sox, the ABC/President Obama town meeting on health care. As they went to a commercial just now, up flashed this datum: 59% of Americans get health insurance through their employer, with a citation of the US Census Bureau 2007. Two things give me heartburn. First, no context means no meaning. Seriously. What [...]
Housekeeping
June 24, 2009Sorry for the posting hiatus. I’ve been clearing out a few promised bits of writing in support of Newton and the Counterfeiter (you’ve heard I recently published a book? Oh. You have. Sorry.) and I just hit the point where it was time to put my head down and write the last of them, which [...]
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