Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Housekeeping high and low

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The other day, a remark was presented Anonymously, as a Comment under the posting of two images - a leaping nude athlete and a gro...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

What's become of trickling down?

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       What's become of         Exceptionalism?                     Bliss was it in that dawn ...
Monday, June 15, 2015

In Bordeaux, a column rises

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   We're in the final fortnight of the    American Supreme Court's calendar of    dispensations on the law of man with-...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Corniche en fuite

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Bruce Weber Point Conception Marc Vorgers Bentley Corniche

Rally on the East River

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Like you, I studied Saturday's rally on the East River with a lively hope. I sustain it today by presuming to offer a guarded c...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Saturday commute cviii: Friend of mine's off to Cuba

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    One of those snatch-n-grab runs     for the weekend, soon to become     second-nature to us all, unless     some benign quot...
Monday, June 8, 2015

The help and support of the money they love

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  I keep coming back to Mrs Clinton's   untiring justification of her habit   for making money from the positions...
Saturday, June 6, 2015

No pictures, thanks

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                   Spare us this day your trav-                    eling puerile politicians.                    Ask what h...
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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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