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Time for an update on Joost Posthuma. You'll recall that he was hit by a car while on a training ride last summer. His injuries mended...

It's been quite a while since I wrote a post here on financial matters. In fact, though the US is in the midst of a meltdown and on the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson complained that America -- the generation of Americans born after Independence -- needed to find its own voice, needed t...

I'm fond of RaySoda a photosite by a community of amateur and professional photographers, most of them Korean. The subject matter is a...

The widget on top of the right-hand panel shows the cost of the war in Iraq . The numbers include ongoing costs that are directly attributab...

I came across a review of a book on Bill Mauldin and thought I'd show off some of his cartoons. Famous for the Willie and Joe panels th...

I recommend an article called The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam by Tom Hayden (from the March 10, 2008 issue of The Nation). People my ag...

Not long ago I made a case for Clarissa as existentialist hero and found I was not alone in holding this view.  I drew some parallels betw...

Clarissa's Party 1. Conversation, communication, communion, threads of connection Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway continues to occup...

Shared Space I live on a street that's barely two lanes wide. That is, two on-coming cars can pass each other but two large trucks cann...

I'm working on a post I'll call "Clarissa and Virginia" in which I'll give my thoughts on how Clarissa evolved and how...

Here are some more photos taken in 1942 by photographers in the US Office of War Information . They're part of the large collection bei...

Robert Capa 's war photographs are legendary. He has been the subject of much biographical writing and his photographs have been endles...