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Rain can be beautiful. I ain't skaed of no rain. Let's dance.

And it's frigging raining.

It's Friday.

Daddy, why did Bronco Bama say he wasn't stupid? Oh, look at you, you precocious little snip. You're reading so WELL now... Da...

"We are not blind, and I don't think we're stupid." U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on Iran negotiations, November 11...

Arthur Danto, the great philosopher of art, died on October 25 and I am embarrassed to say that I did not know until today. Professor Da...

But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

Office at Night. Edward Hopper (1940).

"history? who cares? we'll all be dead." Ah, I remember that one. President George W. Bush to Bob Woodward. Search keyword o...

Now: Malaysia, 55. United States, 6. Today: Malaysia, 162. United States, 63.

Oh. Today is "Veterans Day" in America, a day to honor those who served in the military. John Kerry, aforementioned, served in th...

I am not unfamiliar with this kind of thing. A friend says, "Harris reads a girl the Miranda warnings before he goes out with her....

"We are not blind, and I don't think we are stupid."                                           -U.S. Secretary of State John...

Two friends in need, two friends, therefore, indeed. One will not let me help, the other I cannot help. "Writing," Hemingway said...

Right? Enough, just stop, please. This is from a tumblr site. Tumblr sites are blogs. I did not know that. W...

This past Thursday, November 7, a tropical cyclone, named Typhoon Haiyan/Typhoon Yolanda, made landfall in the Philippines. It was a Cat...

And, apropos of that-there, 12 search keywords in the last 24 hours, 10 of them "bian zhongyun," one "song binbin." Ver...

From the beginning, communication with Dr. Jennifer Ruth on China was markedly different from communication I had had with others. It wa...

"In memory of your grandmother, I have had a rare edition of Mme de Sevigne bound for you.  I fear that that will prevent this from be...

"However, seeing that it was a fine night: 'Ah, well, perhaps I will come in the carriage after all,' he said."

"You want to go home, even if it means showing disrespect for me. You will excuse my not accompanying you home, as good manners ordain...

"If his affection for me had not been destroyed, he could hardly have acted differently, since, while assuring me that we had quarrell...

"My departure from the room seemed to cause him acute distress; he called me back, shouted to his servants to stop me, and finally, ca...

"Creeping king was bones Ying, who is more sweeping gold units. Traveling, Returning Home."                                     ...

from: 你好：有全国各地各类发票支开 to: Benjamin Harris. 昭王白骨萦蔓草，谁人更扫黄金台。行路难，归去来。 There is in this email, unlike the initial received from Dr. Jenni...

"I seized his new silk hat, flung it to the ground, trampled it, picked it up again, began blindly pulling it to pieces, wrenched off ...

"While he was speaking, my desire to persuade him that I had never spoken or heard anyone else speak ill of him had given place to a w...

"I had advanced a long way towards you; the effect that had was to make you withdraw twice as far. Now it is for me to withdraw, and w...

"One can always write. "

"It seems to me only that you might have brought yourself, were it only out of consideration for my age, to write to me."