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End of the line 10 Dec 2012 | 10:18 pm
Dear Readers and Co-bloggers, This is the farewell post I had contemplated writing several times in the past year but did not get around to doing. After noting the gradual decrease in readership and m...
Jamaica Spiced Black Fruitcake (John Ballard) 2 Dec 2012 | 02:09 am
I have a confession to make. I am a fruitcake lover. Fruitcake jokes strike me as tired gestures of small minds which have run out of meaningful content. My love of fruitcake has roots in childhood wh...
Boiled Custard Recipe (John Ballard) 26 Nov 2012 | 05:11 am
Reblogged here from my old blog. Four years ago I posted this recipe while taking a break from Thanksgiving kitchen duties. It was noticed by the Google robots and appears among the first links when I...
Literature, locality and locomotion (prasad) 16 Nov 2012 | 02:48 pm
Just a link dump, sorry, but this is a remarkable piece of writing: If books are essentially vertebral, contributing to our sense of human uniqueness that depends upon bodily uprightness, digital text...
Petraeus Footnote -- Col. Ted Westhusing's Suicide, 2007 (John Ballard) 14 Nov 2012 | 05:44 pm
The career of General David Petraeus is under the microscope. At the risk of being a scandal-monger I have to drag out the skeleton of Col. Ted Westhusing, a field-grade officer in Iraq who committed ...
A Visual Aid (Sujatha) 14 Nov 2012 | 02:59 am
To the unfolding soap opera of the Generals and their paramours (From Gawker): Paging Oliver Stone. On second thoughts, not enough battlefield scenes. Maybe we should get Baz Luhrmann to turn this int...
Twitter as Poetry -- Sandmonkey's Vision (John Ballard) 11 Nov 2012 | 12:59 am
Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey spins out a poetic vision of the future via Twitter. I'm tagging this "Poetry" because Tweets (140 characters) remind me of haiku (17 sylables) or sonnet form (14 lines). I...
Veterans Day Reading (John Ballard) 10 Nov 2012 | 09:35 pm
Veterans Day is tomorrow. I have two readings to recommend. The first frustrates me so bad I can't say anything rational about it. Read it for yourself. The second is nostalgic but excellent. It appea...
About That "Fiscal Cliff" (John Ballard) 10 Nov 2012 | 12:17 am
Jonathan Chait, writing a few weeks ago (October 14), spun out a lengthy string of reflections and predictions well before Hurricane Sandy and Election Day. Not knowing what the outcome of the electio...
Are votes actually for sale? (prasad) 6 Nov 2012 | 01:20 pm
Here's a question for the 6th of November, now that we've all been through two years of electioneering, but before the actual results influence (corrupt?) intuitions: did Citizen's United actually cha...
