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Monday, March 30, 2009

What? The Dickens?

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I hadn't planned to watch the adaptation of Little Dorrit on PBS last night. I had kind of given up on "Masterpiece Classics"...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

My Double Life

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If anyone's wondering whatever happened to my other blog , which has lain dormant since last August, it's now back in business and p...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Signing Statements (and other stuff)

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What would we do without Bill O'Reilly to be appalled by? Still, his bulldogging of supposedly "evil" left-wing enemies is get...
Friday, March 20, 2009

To Blog Is Human

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I'm pleased to learn that my old Merc colleague Mike Antonucci has joined the ranks of bloggers. Check him out at SectorEarth . And the ...

Freaks and Folks

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The following review ran recently in the Houston Chronicle : FLANNERY: A Life of Flannery O'Connor By Brad Gooch Little, Brown, 41...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Darn That Dream

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It's true. I still have it, long long LONG afterward.
Monday, March 16, 2009

Egging AIG

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MoveOn.org, which Bill O'Reilly claims is worse than the KKK or something, has a letter writing campaign to stop the AIG bonuses .
Sunday, March 15, 2009

She Loves Paris

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My review from today's San Francisco Chronicle : MURDER IN THE LATIN QUARTER By Cara Black Soho Crime, 317 pp., $24 She dives thr...
Monday, March 9, 2009

Brain Strain

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I did my taxes today, which took the usual sweating and scrabbling. But what made it even harder is that I tried to load TurboTax on my aili...
Thursday, March 5, 2009

A Passage From India

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The following review appeared today in the San Francisco Chronicle. THE PRAYER ROOM By Shanthi Sekaran MacAdam/Cage, 382 pp., $14 T...