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Obama works harder and smarter, says Rich
Frank Rich. Damn. This is a well researched and extremely compelling column. He and Gail Collins are now my favorites. Maureen Dowd is occasionally funny, but I’m always reminded that she’s no Anna Quindlen. And Bob Herbert changes lives, but mostly he just moralizes. David Brooks is a clown who has made stuff up in [...]
Proper sexual terminology for a Fox Hunt
The NYTimes, February 18, 2008, in an article entitled “Luxborough Journal Tally Ho! A Determined Crew Hunts for Fox Hunters” discusses some of the pitfalls of a group of people in England who seek to enforce the ban on foxhunting. In discussing their successes and failures they state:
“Losing cellphone contact with Mr. Tillsley, they [...]
Something to desire
The poems reprinted as part of the ‘poetry in motion’ series in the NYC Subway usually leave me cold, but I quite liked this one by Vera Pavlova (translated from the Russian by Steven Seymour):
If there is something to desire,
there will be something to regret.
If there is something to regret,
there will be something to recall.
If [...]
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