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Sell Alaska back to the Russians Alaska Would Be More at Home in Russia by Steven Pearlstein extract: The timing couldn't be better. Th...

Google's many offerings are valuable. Google hosts my blog. Gmail is one of my main email accounts. Google is the first search engine...

I'm not ready to give up the thread on global economics quite yet. One of Pietra Rivoli's main points in Travels of a T-Shirt is t...

There's a book that deals with some of the themes of my posts over the past couple of days. I haven't read it but I've read dis...

The discussion thread on John Quiggin's post on inequality has some arguments over whether people lack the basic necessities of life: wa...

An Australian economist, John Quiggin, believes he can demonstrate that the quality of life is deteriorating for many Americans, at least in...

We wuz robbed! The weather forecast said lots of snow. We got only some, plus yuckky rain. All the schools called off, natch, but the Fe...

I've spent a fruiless hour or so looking for a poem by John Updike. I read it in the New Yorker many years ago. It's definitely no...

Umberto Eco states the obvious: "you are a mortal animal. Indeed, the more you try escape that fact, the more you are forced to realise...

Saint Nicholas Feast of Sinterklaas Sinterklaas explained

Over the weekend, the Goucher Theatre Dept put on a production called Showcase of Scenes from Students in the Lighting Design and Directing ...

Paintings by aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye. {Source: Uncertain quest for the sublime } This makes me think of zebras, of course, a...

Tennyson's Ulysses is a wonderful poem. It's better simply to read and enjoy for its pleasures. Why cast about for its context? I ...

I've been thinking about Tennyson's Ulysses -- a poem of the week on Gobbergo . He's a poet whom I disrespected when young; le...

Here's my Friday quotation posting from the internal blog at work. It's about Google. First of all, from Karen Schneider , an ans...

My mother kept a baby book, but not obsessively. It's called Our Baby's First Seven years and was published by the Mother's Ai...

Kathleen Connally, my favorite photo blogger, made this excellent photo of a red-tailed hawk: And this one of two dogs: Her blog: A Walk Thr...

Yesterday. One of those days. A Monday. One coming after four days of fun, feast, and family. A morning of rain, not heavy but enough. A...

I haven't posted anything from my great- great-grandmother's composition book lately. As you'd expect, some of its contents ar...

Some unintentional humor from people who register domain names from a site called Webmasters who didn't think when they registered their...