Triscribe

May the best team win in Super Bowl 44 in Miami.  I’m rooting for Indianapolis, but New Orleans has the feel-good story, what with their own team history and their city’s history.  This Angry Asian Man blog post has some links to great articles about Scott Fujita, who’s a player on the New Orleans Saints; [...]

But there was no mistaking [Justice John Paul Stevens'] basic message.  “The rule announced today — that Congress must treat corporations exactly like human speakers in the political realm — represents a radical change in the law,” he said from the bench.  “The court’s decision is at war with the views of generations of… Americans.” [...]

Odd photo in the Metropolitan Diary segment of the NY Times: man with a large cat on his head, while walking in lower Manhattan (I think it’s lower Manhattan; I recognize the background to be near B’way and Fulton). Cute kitty.
Various federal judges, as members of the Baker Street Irregulars, are quoted as having [...]

My goodness, the year is going by too fast.
I’ve been terribly busy with my National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) project. Have now hit the 50k minimum, but trying to see how I can finish this sprawling mess of a story (more like stories, considering the many storylines that are going nowhere fast). Editing [...]

Go vote. Daily News’ Michael Daly points out how it becomes even more important to vote during an otherwise moribund campaign season:
Who wants to choose between giving Bloomberg what he should not have and depriving the city of a mayor it needs?
The impulse is not to vote at all.
Fight it. Look at it as [...]

Oh my – It’s November! The year’s going by so fast.
And, it’s… National Novel Writing Month!
Hat tip to my friend NW – “Ice-Skating Bear Kills Circus Head” – dramatic headline. Plus, apparently, Russian circuses train bears to skate and play ice hockey. Seriously, there is a reason why you don’t make animals [...]

Controversy in California: whether the Chinese American kids learn to write simplified Chinese characters or traditional characters – which has some political implications (complicated, when you consider the whole China v. Taiwan thing).
“What Lawyers Can Learn from Sisyphus” – interesting article on how to persist in the face of difficulty. Then again, it’s not [...]

Pu-er tea as an investment. Really?
There’s something poignant about reading this NY Times article on Neil Simon, as he’s in his 80’s and as his “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and “Broadway Bound” are being revived.
The age of the internet isn’t making it easy when we post pictures of ourselves and our kids, and this article [...]

Hat tip from www.refdesk.com: thought of the day – “Everything terrible is something that needs our love.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
Reading this NY Times article about how Mandarin is the trend in Chinatown hasn’t exactly convinced me of giving up on one day improving my Cantonese or trying to stop getting Cantonese and Toisanese [...]

Diversity in NYC – Latino Jews in Crown Heights.
As a follow up to weird NYC animal stories – like the dog on the ledge in the Upper West Side, there’s the story of the cat stuck in a car engine (Channel 7 has the AP version, but when they were showing the video on tv, [...]