8.31 Henry Eyring: “When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble: you will be right more than half the time.” 8.28 John McCain in The Restless Wave: The moral values and integrity of our nation, and the long, difficult, fraught history of our efforts to uphold them at home and …
AUGUST 2018: “I PARTICIPATED. . . FOR THE PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF INFLUENCING THE ELECTION” Read More »
Just short of his 80th birthday, the great Gordon Lightfoot appeared at the Paramount theater in Peekskill on Sunday, August 12. Having battled various illnesses for the better part of a decade, Lightfoot was a gaunt but cheerful presence. The robust baritone was gone; Lightfoot sang in a thin voice, but on key, and with …
8.16 Paul Waldman in the Post: “The problem of inequality didn’t start with Trump. He has, however, done everything he can to make it worse. He gave a gargantuan tax break to the wealthy and corporations; the latter took that tax break and spent it on stock buybacks, which has the effect of boosting stock …
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Or around in it, to be precise. A very rainy day in a very rainy stretch cleared just enough for Paul and Anne and Greg and Susan and Ginny and I to take a boat ride on the Hudson. I had hoped teh captain would take us up as far as Cold Spring, but because …