Archive for March, 2006
Monday, March 20th, 2006
Kepler’s Member Appreciation Night
After a brief encounter with the people at the door who refused to let me into the store, I attended Kepler’s second member appreciation night yesterday. Some of the employees presented their current book picks, and Al Jacobs gave a brief reading. People from Common Ground gave away plants. Obviously, the theme was gardening.
The [...]
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
Remainders
Jane Meyer’s February article from the New Yorker about Alberto Mora’s fight against the administration regarding our country’s torture policies is required reading.
Andrew’s blog has a hilarious post about a large number of WikiPedia entries that all came from a high school in Illinois.
Is it surprising that the authenticity of Picasso drawings for sale [...]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2006
Simmons/Gladwell on ESPN.com
Apparently, I’m the last person to read this conversation between Malcolm Gladwell and Bill Simmons. In my favorite part, Gladwell and Simmons talk about what makes greatness and why Phil Mickelson will never beat Tiger Woods:
Gladwell: As for your (very kind) question about my writing, I’m not sure I can answer that either, except [...]
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Saturday, March 11th, 2006
David Foster Wallace on Bookworm
I enjoyed Michael Silverblatt’s recent interview of DFW on KCRW’s Bookworm. Foster Wallace talks about the essays in his new book, directly addressing his readers, and just general journalistic honesty taken to the extreme.
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Saturday, March 11th, 2006
Former Justice O’Connor Blasts Republican Attacks on The Court
NPR reports on a speech that Sandra Day O’Connor gave at Georgetown University on Thursday in which she took on Republican criticisms of the judicial system, saying they could lead to—gasp!—dictatorship!
