We spent precious time with our beloved Marcel Enjoyed a “staycation” on our Innerarity Island
Exotic Morocco
Nunca fatigo de querer Madrid
Junior Year in Spain (1966) may have worried my parents into early Senior citizens, but it expanded my horizons.
In 1999, Larry & I visited Madrid together and traveled to Sevilla, Granada, Cordoba and many towns in between. En route to Morocco (2015), we flew in/out of Madrid and enjoyed several days there. Madrid swings!
Turkey Trip
The Staten Island grand jury must have seen the same video everyone else did: the one showing a group of New York City police officers swarming and killing an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.
Yet they have declined to bring charges against the plainclothes officer, Daniel Pantaleo, who is seen on the video girdling Mr. Garner’s neck in a chokehold, which the department bans, throwing him to the ground and pushing his head into the pavement.
Nick Bantock
When I was little I loved, just loved the John Ford movie The Horse Soldiers, a dramatization of Grierson’s Raid; I think I made my father take me four times. As an adult, unfortunately, I found it more or less unwatchable — the prettification of war just won’t wash for me now. (The famous scene with the military school students never happened during that raid; something like it did happen during Sherman’s sweep through the Carolinas, but it was a slaughter).
Easter Cat Blogging
The kidnapper never called for the ransom, and Danny Goldman was never seen again. The strange abduction, once the stuff of national headlines, eventually faded from local memory. The crime, which occurred 47 years ago this past Thursday, remains unsolved today.
Here’s a little something to noodle on while I’m lounging in my easy chair trying to solve this week’s Saturday Stumper crossword puzzle. First, you need to click here and go read a post by Matt Yglesias. I’ll wait.
You didn’t read it, did you? Fine. I know you’re busy, so here’s the nickel summary. Matt is talking about the distribution of income in America, and he makes the point that modern capitalism is fundamentally based on a set of fairly complex rules created by humans. There’s no natural, “default” distribution of income, it all depends on what rules we agre