Again, so good to have Sullivan back. Who writes posts like this? Who has readers like this? Sheer supergay yule pathos.
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Astonishing.
22-Dec-09‘The Nympholepsy of a Fond Despair.’
21-Dec-09“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen’s novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem […]
The J Train.
20-Dec-09A few friends got some real experience with the J train last night – in a blizzard no less – coming out to decorate the Christmas tree with me and sing a few old songs. It reminded me of the following story: A friend called me up after flying out of New York, very excited. […]
Health Care Options.
18-Dec-09If the bill is as bad as Howard Dean tells us – and I think Dean has some credibility on this issue – then the right thing to do would be to kill the bill. It would be interesting to see if Obama would be willing to veto it if it passed. That would be […]
Climate Change Skepticism.
18-Dec-09In a piece about the Copenhagen talks, the Economist points out that “there are virtually no climate-change sceptics in China.” They mull over why this might be so, but don’t give any convincing reasons. I’ve never been to China, but hearing people talk about it, it seems like a place where pollution is so bad […]
Happiness.
15-Dec-09I remember reading of Goethe, a man so blessed that some have said he lived the fullest human life ever, that he said that in all his life he never had forty consecutive happy days. Senior year of college, after turning in my thesis, I put myself to this challenge, and had twenty-five consecutive happy […]
Life With Nature.
10-Dec-09Reading a fair amount of Wendell Berry. Worthwhile. “Here on the river I have known peace and beauty such as I never knew in any other place. There is always work here that I need to be doing and I have many worries, for life on the edge seems always threatening to go over the […]
Snow.
10-Dec-09Someone asked me if there was snow up here. After I took the photo which is at the top of the page now, we had a nor’easter blowing all night, which dropped about another six inches on top of the four that were in place. But it steadily warmed all night, turning the snow to […]
Simple Living.
07-Dec-09You’re off toward the edge of the bell curve when you tell strangers about your life and they say you remind them of anti-money crusaders living in caves. So it happened to me on Saturday night, when I was told to investigate a Moab man who calls himself Suelo (article in the link). I am […]
More on healthcare.
22-Dec-09From Marc Ambinder.