Took 4 days back in Wisconsin — Friday night, flew into Milwaukee with Kate, where we rendesvoused with Luke and Lindy, rented a brand-spanking new car (literally three miles on the odometer) and headed up to the Heidel House, in Ripon, where Kate’s friend Kristine was getting married.
Best quote of the trip, seen on a [...]
Sitting in Legal Seafoods in Terminal B, at Logan, the man next to me asks the bartender a question. “Tell me, is the guy down there dressed in some traditional fashion?”
The bartender looks. The man in question is probably in his late 50s, wearing a white banded collar shirt, a widenecked dark [...]
After our weekly bleary conference call with India at 6 a.m., I went back to sleep for an hour, feeling a small glow of happiness at having found the problem with our personal webserver’s webmail the night before. Funny how a little success goes a long way.
Walked with Jack in a warm, moist fall [...]
Federalist No. 51
The folks who started America knew what they were about.
But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government [...]
Escape by Voice Vote (washingtonpost.com)
It’s a grey, dreary, day. Minivans hydroplane eerily well. The Republican apologists for our disastrously unilateral dive into Iraq won’t even go on record supporting it.
Had a great walk with Jack and Jessica this morning. While unpacking photos in Philadelphia, I came across pictures of a Thanksgiving trip [...]