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August 11, 2009
- You have to love David Souter. First he tosses the world's best tenured job out the window when jobs aren't exactly going begging, then he doesn't announce a book deal, then you start learning about his digs. The New Hampshire farmhouse, it turns out, wasn't exactly a castle: no phone, no running water, a definition of Souter-rustic. Then you learn he has quit the farmhouse in Weare for a Cape ...
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July 13, 2009
- Well, as we all know, a writer's life has seldom been either easy or lucrative. When money is tight, we can turn to commercial hackdom (or return to it, in my case). That is, we could until now.
But with newspapers and magazines failing right and left as noted in the California Writers Club Newsletter this month, even these jobs are harder to come by. Even as my books sell steadily if not in ...
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March 21, 2009
- Between the Waning Moons of 2008 and the Rising Suns of 2009 With or without a political mandate to add to their impact, changes big and small are ongoing features of what we call our human condition. The selection of President-Elect Barack Obama as the United States of America's next chief executive officer, and as the country's first African-African American so honored, is a change that we ...
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March 12, 2009
- US Politicians are blowing so much smoke up my ass I'm beginning to think I may have to turn to Big Tobacco for relief!
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February 17, 2009
- Behold. I'm not sure but I think this is the first of its kind. Anything I tried to add would only be superfluous.
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February 12, 2009
- Nobody can deny that obesity is a big problem in this country, but those who are intellectually morbidly obese pose an even graver threat. Republicans are clearly suffering from a severe case of intellectual obesity which comes, in part, from eating too many sour grapes. If Judd Gregg's stepping down as commerce secretary nominee is their idea of getting back in shape, they're in worse trouble ...
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February 10, 2009
- On his blog today, Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, said he considers the stimulus package passed by the Senate "anti-religious." Maybe the former presidential candidate was confusing the stimulus package with a vibrator. Remember the good old days--when somebody didn't like you they'd call you queer? Now they call you "anti-religious," too! This kind of talk ...
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December 11, 2008
- Here is why you should buy my book as gift for loved ones - it certainly is among books that have "something a little more personal." Tango, an Argentine Love Story is about my extraordinary year living and dancing tango in Buenos Aires. It's filled with wisdom and inspiration from my 20 years of Zen and yoga practices, as well as from dancing a sensual close-embrace dance that can't ...
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