Monthly Archives: June 2010

Weekend browser tabs

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 27, 2010

Bringing closure to many of the week’s best intentions to read further, to focus, to write and so forth… The G20 and their commitment to bolstering the wealth of the ruling class by cutting spending and holding down taxes. Toronto, what a riot! With the Wall Street Journal interpreting policy alternatives for them it’s small [...]

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Petraeus

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 23, 2010

Obama is sure as hell not Harry Truman, but neither is Big Mouth Stan McChrystal any kind of “Fade Away” Doug MacArthur. General Petraeus is no Doug MacArthur either, and that’s a good thing. He’s not likely to repeat the insubordinate nonsense that brought down Stan. On the other hand, I’m concerned about his health. [...]

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Another week another link list

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 19, 2010

Today’s tabs from my browser, tabs that have somehow remained unclosed until today, when I shall surely close them, tabs that reflect my good intentions and my short attention span: Juneteenth! WordPress Version 3.0 – “Thelonious” Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification Andrew Hessel – Introduction to Synthetic Biology Golden Rice Julian Assange Iceland’s new [...]

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The tweeting of Ronnie Lee Gardner

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 18, 2010

Ronnie Lee Gardner had his surf and turf, a couple of days of fasting, and then he was executed. This made the news. To assure complete coverage, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff tweeted the event. twitter: complete coverage of the World Cup, the Lakers, and deaths by firing squad. All the fits that’s news… and [...]

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Weekend Bobcat

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 13, 2010

Lots o’ lynx… Google stuff. So much of this is great. Why is Feedburner so difficult for me? Can the US Punish BP’s Shareholders? The editors of the New York Times asked that question. Is there any doubt that the US could freeze their assets and confiscate every dime? And would that be “punishment?” The [...]

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Michael Pollan Food Polemicist

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 12, 2010

From the Financial Times via @jayrosen_nyu “…Pollan’s winning way with food polemics is all his own, coloured by an easy-going humane generosity. The reader never feels hectored into gastric virtue. Guilt is not his trip. This is a writer who wants to restore the culture of true eating but who can own up to a [...]

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Write What You Know

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 7, 2010

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time,” said the pithy poet Howard Nemerov. Elmore Leonard published “Ten Rules of Writing” a few years ago. The book repackaged Leonard’s 2001 New York Times essay, “Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points, and Especially Hooptedoodle”. Today, on the Word Count blog, [...]

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Weekend sausage

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 6, 2010

More tabs from my browser: International Association of Time Travelers– 11/15/2104 At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote: Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl’s cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice! [...]

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