Red Mug, Blue Linen
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Origins of Wednesday civ: My sweet impeachable you

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On the one hand, these seats were not cheap. On the other, you're right, it may very well drag on into dinner. So what ...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Origins of Wednesday ciii: What do Democrats mean for Virginia?

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Humane redistricting, anyone? Just in case there's no back- to-back national championship or the people tire of winnin...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Witness

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What an enviable mind it must be, to guide one in truthful testimony of service as an American Ambassador under treacherous attac...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Origins of Wednesday cii: Speaking through the dark

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Most people who have friends in California know people who are cut off from electric power and are breathing smoke. I have an ...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Game on

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  I always know a game   is interesting, if I    do not care who wins   or know their names.
Friday, October 18, 2019

Suppose it were Friday clxxix: People are going to ask

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People are going to ask, of course, if I had been an American when the President declared it to be a great day for civilization, saving ...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Origins of Wednesday ci: Show me our progress

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    I bet it's glorious. Dartmouth Hall Hanover
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Search engine

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  It just seems to me that a search   engine is defined as much by dis-   position as by denomination. Any-   one thinking to...
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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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