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Renée Fleming sings Glück das mir verblieb from Die Tote Stadt by Erich Wolfgang Korngold at the Metropolitan Opera’s 125th anniversary gala.

Off this weekend to the Reliant Series of Dog Shows at the Reliant Center in Houston.  We had two dogs entered for the three days of shows, our class boy Dutch (Soyara’s The Flying Dutchman) and our special Knight (Ch. … Continue reading →

Long-time Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has died at the age of 80.  Megan McArdle points out the shrewdness of The Boss’s demise:  by dying in 2010 he spared his family paying estate taxes.  She adds, There’s actually a pretty solid … Continue reading →

At last, a good use for the New York Times: Cellulose ethanol production from waste newsprint by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation using Saccharomyces cerevisiae KNU5377 Insu Parka, Ilsup Kima, Kyunghee Kanga, Hoyong Sohnd, Inkoo Rheeb, Ingnyol Jina Process Biochemistry (Amsterdam, … Continue reading →

The music of Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) is principally represented in performance by his nine great symphonies.  Rather less well known is his religious music, not only the three masses (in D minor, E minor and F minor) of his mature … Continue reading →

Ahhh, it’s been a good month for emptying the world of these dirtbags! José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation with a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, … Continue reading →

Another Red bites the dust! Joan Hinton, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the atom bomb, but spent most of her life as a committed Maoist working on dairy farms in China, died on Tuesday in … Continue reading →

Who knew that the Good Lord had such a sense of humor? A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police … Continue reading →

A very good question asked by Tara Parker-Pope in the New York Times is, “How much would you spend on a sick pet?” Most pet owners say that cost is a factor when deciding whether to seek medical care for … Continue reading →

From Don Surber, discussing the qualities of Our President: As to constitutional lawyer, I get the feeling he studied that that document with the same contempt an atheist may attack the Bible.

Congratulations to the Chicago Blackhawks, who won the Stanley Cup with an 4-3 overtime win over the Philadelphia Flyers last night. I was pulling for the Flyers, of course, but I could see the writing on the wall in Game … Continue reading →

Where else but the New York Times? To the Editor: The energy bills coming out of both the House and the Senate prove yet again how utterly ineffectual our political system is at really solving the nation’s biggest problems. The … Continue reading →

Helen Thomas has been retired with extreme prejudice after videotaped remarks suggesting that the Jews in Israel “go home” to Poland and Germany where, when she became a reporter in 1943, they were being treated with the deepest respect. The … Continue reading →

Where else but the New York Times? To the Editor: One reason the government does not have any capacity to fix the oil leak is that it is lacking the know-how and experience. One way to gain that experience is … Continue reading →