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Hmong hunter Chai Soua Vang is being held on bail for killing six and wounding two hunters in Wisconsin. (New York Times). He says that it was self-defense; I think that killing so many people is senseless. On the other hand, the story is that the eight hunters had only one gun among them. That [...]

This feels like such a dead end week, or maybe that’s just me, what with the holiday coming and all that dread (of excessive eating; of needing more exercise; etc.)
The latest “Entertainment Weekly” had good reads - particularly the section where the critics evaluated the tv shows of this fall. I pretty much agreed [...]

I prefer spending my birthdays quietly, so I spent a good chunk of my 34th birthday Saturday at the Museum of Modern Art reopening in Manhattan with P- and close to 40,000 other art lovers. I had stayed over my parents’ house the night before because the weather was bad, I was beat, and [...]

We New Yorkers are the world’s luckiest people. My sis and I went to the free re-opening of the Modern Museum of Art (MoMA) - 45 minute wait in the rain (turned out it was only 45 minutes - but it felt like an hour and a half to me, which goes to show [...]

Weekend!
This whole Senator Arlen Spector debacle is disturbing to me for a wide variety of reasons. A perfectly decent enough senator (an incumbent who had to battle the conservatives in his own party during a nasty primary - just to keep his seat), who’s up for chairmanship by virtue of seniority; the so-called conservatives [...]