I don't have time for a whole thoughtful review, but Vicki and I went to see Bill Irwin's Scapin at the American Conservatory Theater on Sunday. It is hysterically funny, brilliant, and, generally a great piece of theater. I don't often do theater, since many of my readers are not in the Bay Area. But if you ARE in the Bay Area, Scapin is worth a trip.
Craig Reynolds noted a New York Times blog post about Jumping Ship and Punching Hippies
Jon Carroll offers another wonderful cat column: Pancho, the dashing cat
Daniel Dern offers a NSFW version of Mr. Peabody does a history of Iraq. I found the adjectives used for Don Rumsfeld particularly amusing. Also: book trailer for Night of the Living Trekkies.
Two political briefs:
- Mendacious Uninformed Discourteous (MUD) Boor From Fox Entertainment
- As Vaughan Walker moves on, there are no replacements.
Dan Grobstein File
- Invisible-hand jobs.
- RT @Marnus3: Only 22% of recipients of the Bush tax cuts earning >250K report business income. So, where will the jobs come from? #p2
- quote:
The message of Justice Breyer’s book is that the court jeopardizes its legitimacy when it makes such radical rulings and that, in doing so, it threatens our democracy.
unquote.
Several years ago, when I saw Justice Breyer interviewed at the New Yorker Festival (by Jeffrey Toobin) he talked about how friendly the justices were to each other and how important it was that they communicate. As I recall, he said he had lunch with Justice Scalia often. I guess at that time he thought there was hope and downplayed the activism of the Scalia and Thomas. Now we have Roberts and Alito added to the mix.
After that interview I saw another interview with Jan Crawford Greenburg who interviewed Justice Thomas. I don't remember that he said anything about working with people with different opinions. What I do remember is he thinks he's been picked on his entire life and once you get to know him you find out how wonderful he is.
The Breyer interview was at the New York Public Library, but was part of the New Yorker Festival. The Thomas interview was at the 92nd St. Y - Roger Ebert's Great Movies (includes Grounhog Day reference)
- Sounds
of history at great risk
BBC: An audio history of the US is at risk of disappearing unless legal and procedural changes are urgently made, researchers say. - quote: "...as contracts changed hands 27,000 times in 14
seconds, but with eventually only 200 actually being bought or sold." I
don't think that the stock market that was used to finance the
expansion of the economy, which led to the wealth of this country, many
years ago worked like this.
BUSINESS | October 02, 2010
Lone $4.1 Billion Sale Led to 'Flash Crash' in May
By GRAHAM BOWLEY
Regulators said they had identified the sequence of events that erased more than 600 points from the Dow in minutes. - Blighted Titles
- A Taxpayer Receipt (where your money goes)
- Predicting The iPad In 1968 (Arthur C. Clarke. Again)
- Faulty Foreclosures
- British
Conservatives floating plan to increase college tuition
I guess fhe rich people all over the world have their money and they're going to take it and just go home.
"Nice middle class democracy you used to have. We're set for life. Maybe the Indians, Chinese and Brazilians will be nice to you once they're the major powers. Let them spend their money on infrastructure and educating their population. We don't need that anymore. We have our's.
"Climate change shouldn't bother us in our gated communities. We have guards." - Every
life matters...
