Seven hundred years ago recycling was just as much a rage as the practice is now.  One day a monk cut up some old papyrus scraps and dutifully copied his prayer book into the reconstituted volume. One hundred years ago in Constantinople (“Been a long time gone, Constantinople; Now it’s Turkish Delight on a moonlit [...]

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In the mad rush to simultaneously prepare for and ignore President’s Day (“President’s day, president’s day; the mad scientist grafts a two headed President of Lowest APR and Mattress Discounters“) I missed Nirvana Day .
As chance would happen, perhaps because yesterday was Nirvana Day, it did provide some measure of resonant contemplation of that teaching [...]

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In recent days, we, the teeming masses in general (and The Good Doctor in particular), have been subjected to revisionist histories concerning everything from whether the Holocaust actually took place to broad statements asserting that the Depression was not only continued by the policies of FDR’s New Deal, it was caused by them (A contrasting [...]

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So there you are, teeming masses.  Your 401K has the value of a box of Special K, your house might bring in the price of a Malibu Barbie condo on Ebay, and your job, if you still have one, has just shown up on the latest Endangered Species update, just behind amphibians in general and [...]

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First, let me state for the record (as long as it is written in invisible ink) that The Good Doctor never intended for the money my corporation, Bleedem, Drye, and Howe, was anticipating from the Fed bailout to be used for an all expense paid junket to Amsterdam and Thailand, where our hard working employees [...]

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