Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Saturday commute cxii: Side lines

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Brent Scowcroft came out in the pages of The Washington Post  this morning in favor of the multi-lateral arms accord with Iran, obser...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Remembering Catullus

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   Embarrassment shudders now across the    playing fields of Concord, with a spec-    ulative school tradition in sexual de-   ...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Coasting on the hustings

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What if the Other Party should nominate for the Presidency, the winner  of a contest: who some- how threaded the needle of disdaining ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Getting it backwards

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It is their climate, not their mind, that men change when they rush across the sea. Yet, when climates are our emigran...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015

American politician

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Julian Bond
Saturday, August 15, 2015

Times Square

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Not far from the Port Au- thority then.                          .. I worried that a great        love might make everything e...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Exodus from Chinatown?

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A Friday morning think-about, to clear the air for the week- end. We've seen enough now to go through the checklist of a unifi...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Dust on the myth

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A number of commentators - even apart from Stephen Colbert - have figured out that the season's enchant- ment with Donald Tr...
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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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