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Hmm, so Wednesday night, I finally watched the thing that tv people have been talking about: “Dancing With the Stars.” Eh, what’s the big deal? . These aren’t even real stars – more like B or C (dare I even say D) list stars. On the other hand, it’s been strange fun. John O’Hurley (a.k.a. [...]

Thanks folks for the comments. I’ve been a bit busy as you will see below. Skype or me and I’ll walk you through this. I had jury duty on Wednesday at Supreme Court, Civil Division. This is your garden variety potpouri type of general jurisdiction court. After about 4 hours of hemming and hawing, I [...]

The latest conversation on the US Supreme Court up on Slate – really interested. I liked Prof. Tim Wu’s analysis of the Ten Commandments and the Grokster cases – that you have Breyer and O’Connor concerned about our maintaining manners – extremes are bad. The passing of Shelby Foote, the writer/commentator on Ken Burn’s “Civil [...]

New: Upgraded the blogging software to 1.5. There are some new things behind the scenes, and some neato templates, which I’ve changed to here. I’ll be working on changing the picture to something more mine, and get the location thing working again. Please point out anything seriously wrong. Old: Interesting new book I saw at [...]

On the CD player: “Classic Yo-Yo” 0 compilation of Yo-Yo Ma’s best. Glad to see that the NY Times still has the link up – its special Brooklyn section from last week. Tons of great stuff, plus an article about my neighborhood (I was reading it, thinking: “Good grief, that’s my subway station they’re talking [...]

PBS funding restored, but other concerns remain. The NY Times’ article by Lorne Manly on “Public Broadcasters’ Tightrope Over Funds” demonstrates the problem. The PBS managers are trying to do more outreach to get help and money, but that only gets more ire: But the lobbying effort has been criticized. “What bothers me is they’re [...]

Had dinner with my mom and P- tonight, and the topic of eminent domain came up. Of course the topic is dear to us because my apartment is directly affected. I kind of remember 10 years ago when the Chinese government swiped the land under Beijing McDonald’s to build a shopping mall, while America was [...]

Chinese Oil Giant in Takeover Bid for U.S. Corporation It seems that China is undergoing the same sort of issues that the United States did as it moved out of its industrial revolution. I’m sure that there will soon be Chinese figures like Rockerfeller, Carnegie, and Morgan. In fact, the Chinese are being assisted by [...]

Christian Bale is the man. Oh, yeah, and so are Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine. They really lift any movie (and support The Man). So, yeah, I liked the movie. God, I really am a geek wanna-be! (not that that’s a bad thing). I think the identity killer of Bruce Wayne’s parents will always be [...]

Got an autographed copy of “Arthur Schwartz’s New York City Food” at A Cook’s Companion on Atlantic Avenue. I haven’t read the entire book, but it seems to be pretty complete – he even has my godmother’s spaghetti and meatballs recipe on page 170. Batman Begins is really a superior movie to all of the [...]