A relaxed lunch in a comfy little restaurant, a friend with whom one can discuss anything. No pressure, no time, just conversation.
Note: first posted on ketches, yaks & hawks 2 December 2008
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" --Albert Einstein
Currently reading
- Native Plants for High-Elevation Gardens, 2nd ed., by Jan Busco and Nancy R. Morin
- The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, by David M. Potter
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
- Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, by Rachel Maddow
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie
- Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, by David M. Kennedy
- Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest, 2nd ed., by Stephen Plog
- Eisenhower in War and Peace, by Jean Edward Smith
- The American Home Front: 1941–1942, by Alistair Cooke
- Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year, by Charles Bracelen Flood
- She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker, by Brigid O'Farrell
- Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams
- Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship, by Tom Ryan
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Blogs of personal note
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- Not your grandmother's tofu
- Why I don't use FedEx
- Subtle media bias on the mix of religion and politics
- He's not me
- Response to a response
- The way it was
- Ban them. Now.
- The owners are naked; I hope they freeze
- Casey's bummed
- America's un-American capital
- Mortification at the heart of the evil empire
- Whirling peas day
- The new orthodoxy?
- Unreported elephant in the room
- Letter to the leaders: health care reform
- Unsociable networks?
- Tragic, futile milestone
- This is what our soldiers are fighting for?
- Summer evening, eastern seaboard
- Pop quiz
- A virtue of pacifism
- Moving day approaches
- Mushroom
- Dittoheading themselves to irrelevance
- 'Nuff said
- Will there be future Miracles on the Hudson?
- Hypocrites, stimulus and the nuclear option
- Gerontological Old Party
- Disposable toys?
- Tax now
- Grounding
- Don't kick the dog
- Who do you call when the fire station is burning?
- November 4 changed everything
- Are we panicking yet?
- The proposed bail-out plan needs to be fixed
- Delegation
- How does one spell "junket"?
- Buddy, can you spare me a dime?
- Worse than a hypocrite
- Palin's right
- Sexism?
- Splitting hairs, hypocritically
- Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?
- A license plate for America
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