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He deserves nothing less.
Just like the famed Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi who, on Bush’s final foreign trip, threw his shoes at the American dictapresident. Neither hit Mr. Bush, an athletic, mobile Man.
Al-Zeidi’s family claims he was tortured after the episode. He is still being detained.
But, as opposed to throwing them at Bush, I [...]
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Tags: Dallas, daria place, George W. Bush, iraqi journalist, new house, shoes
Depressed Christmas?
Not at this house on 41st St. in Northwest, DC. Almost Maryland.
I counted 14 inflatable Christmas decorations. My guess is that they’ve been adding one additional piece every year.
Not much more yard to work with. Gonna have to go exurban – if they want to keep expanding.
I do wonder how much it costs to keep [...]
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Tags: inflated Christmas, Washington D.C.
Henrietta, NY –
American shoppers – in just one single day – scored a major victory for the global economy.
In what will likely be known as the “Battle of Black Friday,” an overwhelming majority of average Americans showed up for duty, happily forking over their credit cards.
There was a sense of urgency in the air. A [...]
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Tags: America!, Black Friday, shopping, victory over recession
Karl Rove Arrested: Congress Grows Balls and Does Something? Photo from flickr user Knuckledragger.
Yesterday Karl Rove was politicking in Dallas, future home of George W. Bush and a rare remaining political stronghold, at the home of real-estate mogul Harlan Crowe. The subject of the gathering was not publicly reported.
A local group was organizing a protest of Mr. Rove and his [...]
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Tags: Dallas, DNC, jail, politics, Rove, Siegelman, USA
One of the 600 ill-fated, soon-to-close Starbucks stores is located right here in North Dallas (actually 9 are closing in the city!), at the pivotal intersection of 635 and Coit Road. While the morning rush was at times tremendous, it was never enough to overcome the pricey rent and stiff competition from nearby coffee vendors, none of [...]
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Tags: closing - haha!, coffee, Dallas, Starbucks, USA
Frank Lloyd Doggy
The Dallas Theater Center: Not Frank Lloyd Wright’s finest work. Gabby agrees, I think.
I prefer Wright’s other Dallas building, the Gillin House, which was featured in Wes Anderson’s first movie, Bottle Rocket.
Or pretty much any Wright house, including the Boynton House, which I used to live by, in Rochester, NY.
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Tags: architecture, buildings, Dallas, dogs, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gabby, USA
An ugly, fairly new school building at Penn’s old Wharton School, the first business school.
Happily creating and polishing executives for the benefit of the world since 1881.
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Tags: academia, architecture, buildings, college, philadelphia, ugly, Wharton School
The Race Gets Racial
I stopped to check out the BHO shirts being sold at a Center City stall, in Philadelphia. I met a woman who was proud to show me her just-bought t-shirt. I like the yellow. But too many words. And that picture is huge!
Like almost all of Black Philadelphia I encountered, Miss Brigham (that’s what she [...]
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Tags: McCain, Obama, philadelphia, politics, race
Center City: Not Downtown
I don’t care for the name Center City. “Downtown” seems like such a nice, universal term. Why change?
New Yorkers do claim that theirs is the only true downtown, as it is at the southern end of the island. Playing second – or third, or fourth – fiddle on the East Coast would make me want [...]
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Tags: Center City, cities, philadelphia, stupid term, trains, transport, USA
The Times today has a somewhat interesting story on BHO’s University of Chicago teaching stint. I have no problem with the overall content of the story. More or less, it resembles even handedness. Barack was a good teacher. Students liked him. But, he wasn’t interested in the academic elements of the university: he didn’t publish [...]
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Tags: academia, journalism, New York Times, Obama, politics, University of Chicago
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