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I fear I made a big one. I have let my impulsive fingers click click click (one used to say dial but now one just clicks) in a wanton and re...

I do believe we are on 27th 

In truth, I am suspended between days and between debates. It is night and I still have three papers to reread. There is no “next day.” I am...

This afternoon, in a symbolic move, I put this up:

That was then

I studied it for a while, contemplated simpler days where it was all about Lieberman’s attempt at folksiness and Gore’s lockbox. Then I cov...

No longer a November 7th election

And I just wish people would remember that this is the election before us. I was astonished at fellow bloggers who wrote about yesterday’s ...

at 1 East 28th, you'll find plenty of pickles 

This post is all about pickles . How ever did the cucumber in brine come to depict “a jam,” as in “I am in a pickle”? Or “a muddle”? Or “a ...

a pickle for every occasion 

Wow, that was an interesting debate, wasn’t it? I watched couples practicing tango at Union South. Excuse me? You see yourself as a seri...

29th and 5th: think positive! think good outcome 4 weeks from today! 

I am about as unlikely as anyone to quote Norman Vincent Peale. I was, indeed somewhat surprised that the city honored Peale by “naming” a s...

As I entered the Faculty Lounge this morning, a senior colleague greeted me with: Hello, Swedish-born wily law prof! I have the followin...

30th: a simple, humble marking