tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110695762024-03-07T15:51:50.953-08:00All Intensive Purposes"The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day." -- Marcel Proustt.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.comBlogger1656125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-43877117269586383292011-01-22T22:15:00.000-08:002011-01-22T22:18:18.872-08:00<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2436/3652513695_2e4a0a6b3d_z.jpg"><br />Photo by Stuck in Customs / Creative Commons license.<br /><br /><a href="http://flowingdata.com/2011/01/20/tracking-space-garbage-with-space-fence/">Tracking space garbage</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/20/confessions_of_a_sexaholic">Dan Savage has advice for Silvio Berlusconi</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=11909">The long, slow failure of 3D</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/56447/mondo-weiss/">The unusual trajectory of Philip Weiss</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/22/stuart-holden-bolton-wanderers-interview">Stuart Holden</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/21/the-growth-of-shanghai/">Twenty years of development in Shanghai</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/22/elaborate-televised.html">Mobistar punked</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-83986745721937854322011-01-19T22:50:00.001-08:002011-01-19T22:50:49.252-08:00<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/99641198_5a8c3a5bfd_z.jpg" /><br />Photo by Captain Chickenpants / Creative Commons license.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U&feature=player_embedded">Changing education paradigms</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/01/18/heather-havrilesky-on-%E2%80%98disaster-preparedness%E2%80%99/">Polly Esther speaks</a>.<br /><a href="http://kottke.org/11/01/lyndon-johnson-buys-pants">Lyndon Johnson buys pants</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/01/the-anti-regulators-are-the-job-killers/">Who will investigate the anti-regulators</a>?<br /><a href="http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=4677">Arranging books by colour</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/23568/surfers+in+alaska+ride+waves+for+an+astonishing+five+miles/">Long-distance surfing</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.grist.org/article/food-2011-01-19-new-agtivists-nikhil-arora-and-alex-velez">How to become a mushroom farmer</a>.<br /><a href="http://thebusysignal.com/2011/01/13/armistead-maupin-in-autumn/">Armistead Maupin in autumn</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-23201419313236761542011-01-14T22:40:00.000-08:002011-01-14T22:42:56.450-08:00<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3190/3399945275_00cc464406_z.jpg" /><br />Photo by darkmatter / Creative Commons license.<br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2011/01/being-a-bullfighter.html">Confessions of a Peruvian bullfighter</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-53646602209690030862011-01-13T23:59:00.000-08:002011-01-14T09:05:05.125-08:00<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2541/3757188367_6d4e5eae0a_z.jpg" /><br />Photo by no_typographic_man / Creative Commons license.<br /><br /><a href="http://fritzbogott.com/2011/01/05/urmu/">Lake Urmia is also full of water</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/01/munger-to-goldbugs-jerks/">Even if hoarding gold works, you're a jerk</a>.<br /><a href="http://dcist.com/attachments/Aaron%20Morrissey/2010_0113_streetsbig.jpg">Avenues of the District</a>.<br /><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/01/read_bill_murrays_hilarious_sp.html">Bill Murray on Sofia Coppola</a>.<br /><a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/01/13/algorithmic-trading-and-market-structure-tail-risks/">Algorithmic trading and market-structure tail risk</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2280442/entry/2280913/">Why successful college football players can't make it in the NFL (and why college football looks more fun)</a>.<br /><a href="http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2011/01/dont-look-back-in-tsvangerai-heard-you.html">What was Morgan Tsvangerai thinking? What did he say?</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/the-small-plane-non-menace-updated/69091/">The small plane non-menace</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-54630489431388597042011-01-12T22:32:00.000-08:002011-01-12T22:35:44.032-08:00<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/321669915_5f0c13abd7_z.jpg" /><br />Photo by zeynep'arkok / Creative Commons license.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/us/politics/13obama-text.html?_r=1&src=tptw">Obama in Tucson</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/10-things-i-learned-working-with-jim-cramer/">Ten Things I learned working with Jim Cramer</a>.<br /><a href="http://volokh.com/2011/01/11/supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-potentially-important-commerce-clause-case/">A Commerce Clause non-development</a>.<br /><a href="http://articles.philly.com/2011-01-11/sports/27021834_1_flyers-romp-soviets-flyers-chairman-ed-snider">The Broad Street Bullies and the Soviet Red Army</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.thecommonreview.org/article/article/our-psychic-living-room.html?sp=1">Why read David Foster Wallace</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.egyptiansurrealism.com/">Egyptian surrealism</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-43458559442834050022011-01-11T20:23:00.000-08:002011-01-11T20:40:54.681-08:00<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2529/3830501714_febfb88733_z.jpg" /><br />Photo by studioapril. 1982 / Creative Commons license.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/01/10/132803813/remembering-peter-yates-marvelous-coming-of-age-bike-film-breaking-away">Refund!?1?</a><br /><a href="http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?AID=1775">Bounty hunters</a>.<br /><a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=71A34884-BF1F-7D6B-1F905C7B7324E41C">The false rush to "balance."</a><br /><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-giffords-tragedy-is-the-media-partly-at-fault-20110110">Introspective Taibbi</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/10/water-sculpture-movi.html">Water sculpture</a>.<br /><a href="http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/8791/georgetown-makes-a-big-shift-towards-transit/">Fewer cars in Georgetown</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-49596151192010014882011-01-10T22:19:00.000-08:002011-01-10T22:22:41.770-08:00<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2558/4172990687_6887b258d0_z.jpg"><br />Photo by Brandon Christopher Warren / Creative Commons license<br /><br /><a href="http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/features-janfeb-11-five-myths-and-a-menace-ligel-lawson-adam-smith-economics">Five myths and a menace</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/01/rhetoric-too-violent-or-too-dumb/">Our political conversation is too dumb</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/01/thats-why-i-came/69213/">Where is Michael Chabon from</a>?<br /><a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full">Exposing the fraud over vaccines and autism</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/01/giffords-hands.html">Holding Giffords’s Hand</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-42142041505245952122011-01-09T22:16:00.000-08:002011-01-09T22:17:48.355-08:00<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3359/3244476512_f49b08b678_z.jpg"><br />Photo by Wendell / Creative Commons license<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10facebook.html">Facebook in Japan</a>.<br /><a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2011/01/a-day-in-cairo.html">Mary Beard's day in Cairo</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-89351581406296414282011-01-08T22:02:00.000-08:002011-01-08T22:04:44.603-08:00<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/378392068_65e2ba3e16_z.jpg?zz=1"><br />Photo by Per Ola Wiberg / Creative Commons license<br /><br />Chris Bertram collects links on <a href="http://crookedtimber.org/2011/01/08/vivian-maier-street-photographer/">unknown street photographer Vivian Maier</a>.<br /><a href="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012788.html#012788">Cooking with dragon</a>.<br /><a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/01/06/more-small-businesses-offering-health-care-to-employees-thanks-to-obamacare/">Early signs are good</a>.<br /><a href="http://kottke.org/11/01/michael-caines-impersonation-of-michael-caine">Everyone has a Michael Caine impression</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-45782454106004364062011-01-07T22:25:00.000-08:002011-01-07T22:27:20.355-08:00<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3161/3574392846_68f6ca215d_z.jpg"><br />Photo by Daniela Hartman / Creative Commons license.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/01/07/ma-supreme-court-deals-banks-a-major-blow-on-foreclosure-fraud-in-the-ibanez-case/">The banks are screwed if this precedent holds</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-41007001958054674792011-01-06T23:58:00.000-08:002011-01-07T00:02:11.364-08:00<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3344/3215868087_cce5882430_z.jpg" /><br />Photo by Éole / Creative Commons license<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/way-out-afghanistan/">The way out of Afghanistan</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/jan/04/spanish-league-sid-lowe">Royston Drenthe and Hércules</a>.<br />Dwight Garner <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/books/05book.html">did not care for Annie Proulx's new book</a>.<br /><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/04/ikeas-war-on-edisons-light-bulb/">Ikea's war on the lightbulb</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-5267093642517420952011-01-05T20:37:00.000-08:002011-01-05T20:44:41.401-08:00<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2013/2459145076_ab3c89a8bc_z.jpg" /><br />Photo by looseends / Creative Commons license.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/van-goghs-paintings-get">Tilt-shifting Van Gogh</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/waterfront-fcc">Julius Genachowski took a dive</a>.<br />The <a href="http://www.oliverburkeman.com/2011/01/the-one-sentence-solution-to-almost-all-procrastination-no-really/">one-sentence solution</a> to procrastination.<br />For older people, <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=walking-speed-survival">walking speed predicts life expectancy</a>.<br />Does <a href="http://balkin.blogspot.com/2011/01/justice-thomas-and-korematsu.html">Justice Thomas agree with <i>Korematsu</i></a>?t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-53476116537868403662011-01-04T20:27:00.000-08:002011-01-04T20:29:49.671-08:00<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3220/3078138434_801a5300c3_z.jpg"><br />Photo by Juan Rubiano / Creative Commons license.<br /><br />Alexis Madrigal <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/instagram-the-app-that-made-me-into-a-voyeur/68783/">likes Instagram</a>.<br />Sara Mayeux on <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/01/george-w-bush-and-the-question-of-authorship/68857">the reviews of George W. Bush's new book</a>.<br />John Scalzi and <a href="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/01/04/the-big-idea-lauren-beukes/">Lauren Beukes</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/45645-upcoming-newsouth-huck-finn-eliminates-the-n-word.html">Sanitizing Huck Finn</a>.<br />The incredible, true story of <a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_collarbomb/">the collar-bomb heist</a>.<br />What passes for beauty: <a href="http://places.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=23228">A death in Texas</a>.<br />Chuck Klosterman <a href="http://www.gq.com/entertainment/books/201012/jonathan-franzen-profile-chuck-klosterman-freedom?printable=true¤tPage=1">profiles Jonathan Franzen</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-16214580651980408802011-01-03T21:13:00.000-08:002011-01-03T21:16:48.392-08:00<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3059/2679124687_2c97075cb5_z.jpg?zz=1"><br />Photo by Natalie Maguire / Creative Commons license.<br /><br />The fall of Baghdad and <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/10/110110fa_fact_maass?currentPage=all">the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein</a>.<br />Keith Humphreys has <a href="http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/personal-moment/comic-book-collection-paralysis-or-yes-i-have-already-failed-at-my-2011-new-years-resolution/">comic book collection paralysis</a>.<br />James Fallows on <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/john-p-wheeler-iii/68755/">Jack Wheeler</a>.<br />The GOP's <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2279594/pagenum/all/">Michelle Bachman problem</a>.<br />Donte Green <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/scocca/archive/2010/12/30/nba-s-donte-greene-sees-a-thing-before-it-even-happens.aspx">sees the future</a>.<br />Strange items <a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/78077">for sale at Amazon.com</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-39789843934930497282011-01-02T21:34:00.000-08:002011-01-02T21:36:58.532-08:00<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4018/4285364706_9ec09b2179_z.jpg?zz=1"><br />Photo by Karen Horton / Creative Commons license.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.animation.pawmedia.com.au/?page_id=115">Topsy's Story</a> and <a href="http://vimeo.com/17875586">why crows are black today</a>, part of Animating Jukurrpa.<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/business/02speed.html?_r=1&hp">How stocks trade now</a>.<br />Wrapping up <a href="http://www.themillions.com/2010/12/wrapping-up-a-year-in-reading-2010.html">a year in reading</a> at The Millions.<br /><a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/12/how-to-eat-well-anywhere-in-mexico.html">How to eat well in Mexico</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-3723563840654025292011-01-01T20:05:00.000-08:002011-01-01T20:24:24.604-08:00<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/83/277762079_37925ad759_z.jpg?zz=1"><br />Photo by R.I. Pienaar / Creative Commons license.<br /><br />John Holbo <a href="http://crookedtimber.org/2010/12/30/kindle-kraken-and-page-numbers/">worries about page numbers</a>.<br />Amy Knight <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/concealed-battle-run-russia/">explains Russia's security state</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-10080988340768381482011-01-01T20:00:00.000-08:002011-01-01T20:25:21.922-08:00Version 2.0 arriving shortly.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-15368995429750577682010-02-03T19:04:00.000-08:002010-02-03T19:05:43.444-08:00Greil Marcus.Robert Loss, <a href="http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/119287-risk-and-equilibrium-considering-the-impact-of-greil-marcus/">"Risk and Equilibrium: The Impact of Greil Marcus."</a>t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-6539578174100780532009-05-13T20:10:00.001-07:002009-05-13T20:11:10.918-07:00Golaso!<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NTM6R00wdSI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NTM6R00wdSI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-90128886257296827652009-01-30T11:02:00.000-08:002009-01-30T11:12:47.005-08:00Whitehead on Bellow -- or, er, Woods.<blockquote>The bookstores are too full today of writers who have nothing to say. If there is nothing at stake for the characters, then nothing can be at stake for the reader. The writer of fiction must embrace a moral vision, or else he is little more than a cheap Fleet Street haberdasher. I decided early on that the work of Saul Bellow was an exemplar of this aesthetic imperative. You will recall the famous opening sentence of good old Augie:<br /> <blockquote>I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.</blockquote>There it is in all its Bellovian glory, the bluster and bombast! Can you smell it? The musk of a virile sentence drawing blood into itself? It is about to spread the labia of mediocrity and rut with the ineffable. We could all do worse than to write like Saul Bellow. And when I say write like Saul Bellow, I mean be Saul Bellow. And when I say be Saul Bellow, I mean unzip the skin from his body and wear it as a sort of Saul Bellow suit so that we can get cozy in it and truly inhabit it and understand the Old Macher. Except he is dead. And he was quite short, so your ankles and wrists would poke out of the flesh suit as if you were some ruddy-cheeked schoolboy who has outgrown his uniform, grimly trudging home from the elementary school and dreaming that one day you will write and be free from all these dullards and their cruel jibes—<br /><br />Where was I?</blockquote><br /><br />Colson Whitehead, <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2009/02/0082377">"Wow, fiction works!"</a>, in <span style="font-style: italic;">Harper's Magazine</span>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-8484429791528818172009-01-26T16:47:00.000-08:002009-01-26T16:48:42.809-08:00Apres-moi, le deluge.<a href="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/23/opinion/afp9.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 650px;" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/23/opinion/afp9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></a>t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-22879158790769757172009-01-19T06:39:00.001-08:002009-01-19T20:19:03.493-08:00This land is your land.<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xg0wiOHc9tI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xg0wiOHc9tI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-89416468950584085382008-12-28T10:51:00.001-08:002008-12-28T10:51:41.274-08:00A very European hero.<span style="font-style: italic;">The Economist </span><a href="http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12795471&source=hptextfeature">on Tintin</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-8523728565338606662008-12-24T07:15:00.000-08:002008-12-24T07:31:04.955-08:00A late night at the Indianapolis airport.It is late on Tuesday, May 7, 1968, and Bobby Kennedy has just beaten Eugene McCarthy in the Indiana primary:<br /><blockquote>By midnight Kennedy was ready to leave and eat some dinner, so he and his party drove out to the airport restaurant. Walking through the empty airport lobby, Kennedy saw his white whale again: two crestfallen McCarthy student volunteers, a boy with two McCarthy buttons in his jacket and a pretty girl with red hair and a straw McCarthy campaign hat on her head. They were sitting on their luggage.<br /><br />And Robert Kennedy, who wanted the delegates but needed the students, went to dinner with Taylor Branch of the University of North Carolina, and Pat Sylvester of the University of Massachusetts.<br /><br />"You had such cruddy canvassers, and you still won," the girl said.<br /><br />"Well, you can't blame all that on me."<br /><br />"I felt we were much better."<br /><br />"How does everyone feel about tonight?" Kennedy asked.<br /><br />"We're going to stay with McCarthy," the girl said firmly.<br /><br />"I don't know what happened," the boy said. "I canvassed Negro neighborhoods, and they wouldn't listen to me for five seconds."<br /><br />"That's not your fault," Kennedy said. "Why wasn't McCarthy effective for you in those areas?"<br /><br />"But you're a Kennedy," the girl came back. "It sounds like a newspaper rehash, but it's still right. You have the name."<br /><br />"Look, I agree I have a tremendous advantage with my last name. But let me ask you, why can't McCarthy go into a ghetto? Why can't he go into a poor neighborhood? Can you tell me that he's been involved in those areas? Why did he vote against the minimum wage for farm workers? Why did he vote against a large proportion of people from the Minimum Wage Act? Kennedy said all this quietly, puffing on a small cigar.<br /><br />For a long while, the two students were silent. At the end, they were still for McCarthy, and Kennedy's white whale was still free to haunt him. It was after 2 a.m. and the winner told the losers, "You're dedicated to what you believe, and I think that's terrific." And then he told them he would drive them back to the city and find them a hotel room, so they wouldn't have to sit up all night in the airport, waiting for their early-morning flight.<br /></blockquote>Jack Newfield, <i>Robert Kennedy: A Memoir</i> 264-65 (Plume, 1988).<br /><br />The UNC student is better known now as <a href="http://www.taylorbranch.com/">this Taylor Branch</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11069576.post-25882972028482122782008-12-21T12:41:00.001-08:002008-12-21T12:41:51.887-08:00An imperial palimpsest.<a href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/348-an-imperial-palimpsest-on-polands-electoral-map/">The once and future Poland</a>.t.s.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com0