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Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

From Stolen Intellectual Policy To Heteropessimism To Climate Catastrophe Greeting Cards

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A link to Capacious led me into a rabbit hole that didn't let go for several hours.  As an academic, I found the first story too real a...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

"There lies the main difference between childish imaginings and imaginative literature."

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  From Ursula LeGuin's No Time To Spare , a book of essays that chews on topics from old age to writing.  In "It Doesn't Have t...
Friday, May 26, 2023

Trust, Draft 4, And Tulips

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 Ida Partenza has been hired by Andrew Bevel in Hernan Diaz' Trust to write down his autobiography as he dictates.  But she's also s...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Harbor Walk And A South African Lawyer

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Yesterday I took a walk down to the harbor here on Bainbridge Island.    And on my way back I did a double take when I saw this fairly matur...
Friday, December 24, 2021

" . . .it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"

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This book was published in November 26, 1859.  It takes place from 1775 through 1793 in Paris and London.   Dickens wrote about a period tha...
Friday, October 08, 2021

I'm Punting Here, But Edward Snowden Is A Smarter And Better Writer Than I

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I'm working on posts related to COVID and our mayor, and on redistricting, but it takes time to post something that's got something ...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

All The King's Men - Setting The Atmosphere For The Story Of A Popular Corrupt Politician

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The first chapter of Robert Penn Warren's classic political novel about Louisiana's Huey Long is 72 pages.  It's richly descript...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

The Man Who Bought Alaska Checking Some Claims

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As occasionally happens, this post began with one destination in mind and ended up somewhere else.  I'll make this Part I and do a secon...
Tuesday, October 08, 2019

"All of this violates the Constitution, the rule of law, and every past precedent. Never before in our history has the House of Representatives-under the control of either political party- taken the American people down the dangerous path you seem determined to pursue." [UPDATED]

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[UPDATE Oct 9:   Here's a Lawfare analysis that's more informed than my comments were, but comes to the same conclusions.] Here ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Two Excellent ADN Letters To The Editor - One On Climate Change, One On Ambler Road

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In this time of strong partisan divide, of fake news, and intentional distortion of facts, and even creation of totally fabricated stories, ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

What's The Difference Between a Memoirs and a Memoir? And an Autobiography? But That's Just The Hook. There's Also Kimani. [Updated]

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I follow  Kimani Okearah @theKimansta on Twitter.  He's a photographer for the Sacramento Kings.  Well, that's not exactly right.  ...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Learning How Tom Clancy Novels Keeping Coming Even Though He Died In 2013

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The notice said that the author of the Tom Clancy thriller series was speaking at UAA.  I knew vaguely that this was a best selling author a...
Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Upon what meat do these, our legislative potentates, feed? " An Analysis Of A Letter To The Editor

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Go ahead and read this letter to the editor that was in the Anchorage Daily News the other day: The Letter THE LAST OF A DYING BREED U...
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