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Thanksgiving Day, Betty Comden died of heart failure, 89 years of age. There are many, many obits and appreciations. I like best the one...

Drama dislikes the constant lover. The Bhudda's Middle Way is boring. Beatrice and Benedick delight and what adjective serves for Hero...

Detroit automakers met with President Bush this week. The execs asked for help in solving their problems. The result was meager, though th...

I'm testing the ImageShack photo hosting service. The image shows a page from a draft letter from John Collins to Henry Oldenburg for ...

I never do blog posts that simply list other blog posts. And also I never say never. This little round-up comes from sightings on Arts ...

At work, I listen to the classical music channel of Sweden's national radio on the web. At home it's WBJC on analog radio (throu...

Here's a piece from The Valve on the resurrection of an ancient tactic to curb violence: Lysistrata live Posted by Bill Benzon on 09/2...

Found on Oishii : The Wooster Collective which, Wikipedia says, is an online street art website that is updated on a regular basis. The si...

I heard once, years and years ago, the name given to women who keep their own last names when marrying. I forgot it soon after and have sin...

I'm fond of the historical novels of Rosemary Sutcliff , particularly the Roman ones which take place in ancient Britain and in which m...

From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson. This entry comes from the last days of September, 1848 I go twice a week over Concord with Elle...

From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson , 1820-1824, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes (1909). Emerson wrote this und...

Michelle Singletary's column in the Washington Post has some useful advice on personal budgets from a non-profit service organization ca...

I've been reading letters of John Wallis , an English mathematician of the seventeenth century who had some insights which led to the r...

Here's a small addition to my long Labor Day post on things that could go wrong with the economic situation in the US and world. It...

A couple years' back, an article in Bicycling magazine warned about the dangers of bone thinning in cyclists ( WHY YOU NEED TO BONE UP.....

The same issue of the AARP mag that had the articles on Living Longer also had one on five foods that are particularly good for you. I...

It boggles the mind that the US economy has remained strong despite deficits, energy costs, natural disasters, unfavorable global imbalances...

The the current issue of the AARP magazine has a set of articles on how to live longer and better: Special Report Living Longer September ...

From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson , 1820-1824, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes (1909). Emerson continues the ...