August 2009
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Kennedy and the mysteries of the Senate →
The NYT has a thoughtful Kennedy retrospective by Adam Clymer. It deals with a topic I find intriguing: the mysteries of the Senate and the convoluted means by which power is earned and wielded there.
Robert Caro teaches readers all about this in what might be the most unwieldy book you’ll ever love, Master of the Senate. I will never be able to say enough good things about it....
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“There have been heroes here, and saints and martyrs, and I want you to know...”
– Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
This book — or audiobook, in my case — is blossoming as it goes along. I say that, but the word misses the target. “Blossoming” suggests a sweetness. That’s all wrong. Think, if you’ve smelled it, of the blossom of skunk cabbage....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-quigg/abolish-t... →
My latest Huffington Post piece: “Abolish the Nazi-Commie Nightmare of Public Firefighting”
Nibble Night & DeLillo & The Kindle App
There’s a guy here in Ballard who shall rename nameless. We ran into each other one night on the other side of Lake Washington. We’d gone berry-picking or something and it was getting late. So we stopped in at one of the Whole Foods stores on the Eastside to get some dinner. (It occurs to me that it must say something demographically lamentable about me that the Whole Foods salad bar...
