AdamSmith

Classic Chomsky. Love him:
http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/s7cA7K9l54JBOI7nF8dg6uA/view.m?id=15&gid=commentisfree/2012/jul/24/magna-carta-minor-carta-noam-chomsky&cat=most-read

Thank you! Individually I like Barbara, Whoopi, Roseanne. But the inane natter here drives me nuts after 90 seconds. How can someone sit through all of it?
...Too early in the day for most people to have already drunk themselves into a stupor sufficient to be insensate, no?

Old topic, but maybe not played out yet. Just re-found this slightly less familiar reconstruction of Sully and Skiles's achievement on the Hudson. Interesting in that it integrates (1) familiar air-to-ground voice recording with (2) transcript of never-publicly-heard words from cockpit voice recorder, overlaid on (3) dynamic map of flight path.

What put me in mind of this was a new book by Sully on leadership:
http://books.usatoday.com/bookbuzz/post/2012-05-17/sully-sullenberger-talks-leadership-obama-talks-fifty-shades/695761/1
Couple days ago I read about 1/3 of it sitting in a Starbucks embedded in a local Barnes & Noble. Cheap way to read! (Akin to my other Cheap Way to Read: between flights, hang in airport bookshops and pressure-read whatever they have that hooks you. Great way to get the gist, and decide whether to buy or pass.)

hitoallusa dropped in without saying hi to anyone!
hitoallusa
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More, if it can be borne: http://www.doug-long.com/index.htm
P.S. May have reported this before. I have a grim fascination with this whole business. In my personal archives I have a photograph of the Enola Gay autographed by the pilot, navigator, and bombardier. (Not especially rare; they, shudderingly?, signed a bunch of these at some point.) I also have, sealed under a glass dome, a little (1/2 x 1 inch) bit of 'Trinitite,' the blue-green glassy substance formed from the desert sand when the test bomb exploded at Alomogordo, the site of the 'Trinity' (so named by Oppenheimer: religious? Poetic -- Donne: 'Batter my heart, three-person'd God..."?) first a-bomb test.

At the risk of being banned, I just can't resist...
Martha Stewart Likes Big Wieners

The always primp and proper Martha Stewart dedicated an entire episode of her daytime show this week to everything Hot Dog related.
The Martha Stewart Show featured all kinds of hot dogs and toppings.
They even had a special 15-foot hot dog created by Empire National in Brooklyn that was hand delivered to Martha's studio.
And showing you can never be too proper, Ms. Stewart added, "For those of you who don't think length matters, I disagree – especially when it comes to wieners."
How saucy, Martha!
"There's just never enough bites in a hot dog," she added.
http://perezhilton.com/2008-09-24-martha-s...kes-big-weiners

What he needs is to lose those pedal-pushers and the shorts under them, and get into Chris Atkins's loincloth.
As do we all!

Long as we're piling on...
TY knows he has my gratitude for -- like 9 years now? -- an email (and posting) friendship offering me support, advice, commiseration (e.g., of Boston's anemic escort scene -- right up til when I left town!), understanding.
Beatification having begun, his canonization will shortly ensue.