Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Saturday commute lxxxix: sledding the asphalt jungle

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   I got a note from a waif    in San Francisco. They    always ask me what there    is to do. ...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Is taste a human right ii

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To become lost amid underperforming texts the stranger won't answer. By which time it was nosebleed territory...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Not more than a moment ago

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   I had the    very same    reaction.    Coincidence    strikes one    as being so    extravagant.    ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

As grotesque a vision as has ever seemed plausible

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And, for the next few years,  advances in smartphones and  tablets will continue to be  subtle and iterative, driven  by ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The naïf

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The struggle to portray the President as a Chicago pol  - tough, cynical, exploitive, implicitly shady - has foun- dere...

T off

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A thin wash of morning rain on the decks was perfect. Between Exit B and Exit C was a twenty yard stretch unhindered by deck chairs. W...

Have you never read Ted Cruz?

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I ran into Andy Westerman in the parking deck of the U.S. Senate's classified reading room, and together we went off ...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Parbleu! A Monday without "consequences"

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Even Gérard, summoning his best never complain, never explain  mode, would scarcely allow himself to hear of it, when the White...
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Writing to a colleague in the 1930s, the physicist Wolfgang Pauli confessed, “I have done a terrible thing. I’ve postulated a particle that can not be detected.” Eventually, Pauli won the Nobel Prize for his Exclusion Principle, i.e., all material particles exhibit space-occupying behaviour - and could very well fall within the province of restaurants. I wonder if red mug, blue linen will be that terrible thing, a postulate without a particle - that a gentleman is only that creature whose nourishment occupies no space. But whether that is true, is less urgent to know than where it comes from.
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