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by cafard 10mo ago
The heart of Silicon Valley? Aren't you thinking of Palo Alto?
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My stepmother taught in eastern Africa at the beginning of the 1960s. When she was getting ready to return to the US, her students collectively expressed their concern at her returning to such a dangerous place.
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Am I a terrorist or have I ever sympathized with them? Does singing old IRA songs after a couple of pints of Guinness count? If so, it's well I'm not filling out a DS-160.
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by cafard 10mo ago
In A Sinking Island , the critic Hugh Kenner makes the case that the British Copyright Act of 1911, extending copyright from 42 years after first publication, or seven years after the author's death, to fifty years after the author&#x
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by cafard 11mo ago
Corregidor was a mountain fortress island.
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by cafard 11mo ago
About a dozen years ago, I noticed that the young all seemed to know Python, and did not seem to know Perl. Given that they would be maintaining such code as I wrote and was worth keeping around, I moved to writing in Python. Now when I wri
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by cafard 11mo ago
I'm trying to think back to the last time I saw a shopping cart in a movie. I think it was probably Terms of Endearment, but I don't think that the cart made it outside.
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by cafard 11mo ago
Like Hong Kong, then?
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Most interesting. Of Matthiessen's writing I know only the Shadow Country books. I wonder about the biographer's practical judgment, though: > I got very ill at that altitude. A doctor, when I got back, told me I had the symp
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by cafard 11mo ago
The District of Columbia bans holding your phone while driving. I haven't been downtown in a bit, but it used to be my impression that if you walked half a dozen blocks and didn't notice a few drivers with phones in their hands, y
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by cafard 11mo ago
According to a bit in one of Arthur Haley's potboilers, American manufacturers would ensure that VIPs got "mid-week cars", with the notion that the last weekend's drinking would have lost its effect by Tuesday, and that
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by cafard 11mo ago
Cool. https://www.fastcompany.com/91181711/how-the-meatpacking-ind...
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by cafard 11mo ago
I am an angry old not-quite suburban white male. My household employs no servants. We mow our own lawn, we rake our own leaves. I know a fair number of people who are US born and have what appears to be a Central American complexion. I imag
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by cafard 11mo ago
I would offer the major sports unions and SAG-AFTRA as counter-examples.
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Has anyone in the last five years heard anyone describe himself or his friends as "woke"?
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A fair number of these are surnames, and a century ago were probably seldom found as given names: Kelly, Morgan, Taylor, etc.
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by cafard 11mo ago
It has been a while since I lived in Ohio (not quite sixty years), but I don't remember us feeling particularly put-upon.
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When arranging seating for a dinner (not that often), we tend to separate couples. And when at someone's house when there is not pre-arranged seating, my wife and I tend to sit apart. Stendhal thought that the 19th Century French custo
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by cafard 11mo ago
Harsh, but not, in my recollection, wrong.
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by cafard 11mo ago
About fifty years ago, The Denver Post ran a series of articles about people who had known Cassady, Kerouac, and other beats in their Denver days. I remember about two things about the articles, one being that those still around to be inter
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by cafard 11mo ago
It has been a while since Civics class, but aren't laws supposed to come out of the legislative branch?
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by cafard 11mo ago
Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George W. Bush. (I wasn't GW Bush, either, but somehow they overlooked me.)
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by cafard 1y ago
Well, this is Esquire .
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by cafard 1y ago
Asian born, perhaps. A sometime co-worker's son, both parents being Chinese, has a dangerous allergy to peanuts.
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by cafard 1y ago
McCain's parents were both American citizens. I suppose that he would have been a natural born citizen even if born in (say) France. Supposedly Henry Luce was worried that he might not be a natural born citizen, since he was born in Ch
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by cafard 1y ago
For all Charlie Chaplin's success in fighting Hitler (who somehow sustained The Great Dictator and kept on going), it took a large contingent of regimented, drilled men--one might say cannon fodder--to defeat him conclusively.
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by cafard 1y ago
Lincoln favored projects of emancipation with compensation to the slaveholders. In a letter of March 14, 1862, he writes that the paying off all claims in Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, and Missouri, at $400 per hea
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by cafard 1y ago
(2020).
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In the essay "Writers and Money", collected in The Hall of Uselessness , Simon Leys writes """ From his own experiences, Chardonne concluded: "Any good book will sell 3,000 copies, no more, no less. We used to
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by cafard 1y ago
A toothpick did in the writer Sherwood Anderson, in his case by piercing part of the digestive track and bringing on peritonitis.

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