Just in case ...

YOU are a reader (or, like me, a fan) of Andrew Sullivan's blog, The Economist has done a personality profile of this Catholic, conservative, gay, pro-Obama writer.

It's obvious ...

THERE'S nothing actually important ever going on in Riviera Beach, Fla.

Here's a Frank Rich ...

COLUMN that Lawrence Summers won't much like. And it more than begs the question: Why is he in an Obama administration?

AN interesting question: Can Obama be like (as wise as) Ike?

Happy Easter ...

On exhibit at the Armory Show on New York City's Pier 94 in early March.

Every so often ...

I MANAGE to take a half-way decent photograph. I've always liked this one, taken in 2006 from a small canal bridge on a side street in Venice, Italy. It typifies the calming charm of that city if you can get away from the tourist districts. (I probably posted this photograph on the old blog, so if you've seen it before enjoy it again.)

MEANWHILE, take seriously Paul Krugman's suggestion that it's time to make banking boring again.

It is always ...

A JOY to read a truly insightful and thoughtful piece by the New York Times' in-house conservative, David Brooks. If only he weren't the only one writing these days.

THE Trib reports some Chicago folks fixing their own potholes. See how easy it would be to stop all those socialistic high-tax city services. Of course, these neighbors probably didn't realize that by undertaking a collective action they were engaging in a communistic-like practice.

For the record ...

... view from our kitchen window, November 20, 2008, at 1 p.m. Just a reminder of a pleasant autumn now that spring may actually arrive one of these days ...