Falling out of Love with Hate, Part 3: Mending Fences
(Preamble, Part 1, Part 2) Well now, quite a bit of excitement here in Montauk recently; a near fist-fight, a boat launched and christened, a terrible storm with loss of life; all in one...
Daily Archive: November 1, 2012
About Facebook’s new Promoted Posts for for Businesses
I detect rising butthurt on the twitters and internets over Facebook’s heavy-handed attempts to monetize the various plots that Facebooks share-croppers have worked hard to clear, plant, cultivate. I think this means I’m a...
Happy All Saints Day!
I know I post this every year but the poem is *JUST THAT GOOD*. Here is Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.’s “The Deacon’s Masterpiece”.
If you happen to live in Maine (or Washington, Maryland or Minnesota)
A little over a week ago, we went to visit the Better Half’s family. It was one of our niece’s birthday, and all of the various cousins were assembled. As is his wont, the...
Voting on a Prayer
Dave Weigel boldly travels into a realm I’d dare not go — the minds of those newspaper editorial boards that endorsed Obama in 2008 but went for Romney in 2012. It’s a land of magical...
