Open Threads

Thank everyone for all the kind emails. I am still waiting for internet access (and cable tv, and a parking place, and trying to find a washer and dryer that will fit in the miniscule space I have allotted for the machine, etc.). I have a consulting gig on Friday, so I have much going on right now, but I expect to be back in the saddle on Monday.

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I am not dead.

I just want to get that clear. I have not been posting for a month, and it has been one of the wildest, weirdest, and worst months of my life. I have moved, made some other major changes, found a job, and my sister got arrested for possession of heroin when no one in the family knew she was even using. I am not kidding about the last part, and boy is a junkie sister in jail a real test of true family values. It looks like we might be able to get her back into rehab (back??- I will explain all later), and I should have internet access by this week-end. Other than that, for those of you who have never read me before, I have a chip on my shoulder and should be back to normal soon. For those of you who are used to me- expect more of the same and a site re-design soon. I swear.

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The students are slowly leaving, and I am thrilled. One more exam to give tomorrow, grades due Monday, and then expect to see a boatload more out of me- including a site-redesign.

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I am not sure if any of you have seen it yet, but the new morning crew after Imus on MSNBC is just awful. I think it is Alex Witt and Rick Sanchez, and they are just hideous. Nothing like letting your personal opinions getting in the way of the news.

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This may be Jonah Goldberg’s best ever.

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I have 500 blogs to read since I have been away/busy for two weeks. I will post more tomorrow night.

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Just got back from a week in NYC, and I have a couple of observations.

– I stayed in Brooklyn, in a real blue collar area, and I was simply amazed at how many American flags are prominently displayed. Every house has at least one flag, and most have 2-3. All I could think was that Osama and crew pissed off 8 million people for good, and New Yorkers do not forgive or forget.

– The New York Sun is just great. I don’t know if it is just me, but I did not feel it had a conservative tilt to it- it was just straight up reporting, and most of the coverage was on local news. I guess the absence of a liberal bias makes something conservative. The paper is a little thin, but if I lived there, I would definitely subscribe.

– Every day I was there I read another story about a funeral of a fireman or a cop from the WTC.

– Inside Grand Central Station, there is the most awful memorial/announcement board for those still missing from 9/11. Xeroxed sheets with pictures from weddings, and handwritten descriptives about height, weight, description of wedding band and which hand watches were worn on, all with a little note saying I love you/miss you. After two minutes, I was bawling. Those motherfuckers.

– Egg Creams are delicious.

– You just do not realize how big Ground Zero is until you went there. I did not make a special trip to it, but the express bus I took to Manhattan drove right by it. It is just enormous- for Pittsburgh fans, it looks like you could fit all of Three Rivers Stadium in there.

– The last thing I noticed, which I must have just forgotten on my last trip there (5 years ago), was that New Yorkers wear nothing but black. You can tell the tourists- they look up at the buildings and wear colors.

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