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Mickey Z
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Saturday, August 27, 2005
I just flew in from Texas...
...and boy, are my arms ti— ah, never mind. Any messages for me while I was down at Camp Mom? (Thanks for that one, Joe.)
Hey, I wrote a poem on the plane:
Tuned Out (in)
Ideas
like a low-watt radio station
Signal grows weak as you
stray from the source
Static drowns out the clarity until
static morphs into a
new station
Twist the dial in vain—
the original signal is no where
to be found
But somewhere
Someone
is tuned in…
Clear as a g.d. bell
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In DubyaLand, we passed a church with this message on its “marquee”:
GIVE SATAN AN INCH
AND HE’LL BECOME A RULER
I kid you not…
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I read this book on the long way down:
“A Long Way Down” by Nick Hornby
Read this one while I was there:
“A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game” by Selena Roberts
Read this one on the flight home:
“The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America’s Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist” by Karl Johnson
The Hornby novel was his best since “High Fidelity” while the tennis book was essential sports/women’s rights history. Both highly recommended. The last one was a really good magazine article stretched out into a book. For arcane buffs only.
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- QUOTATION OF THE DAY - (NY Times, 8-27-05):
“Automation always looks good on paper. Sometimes you need real people.”
- Veronica Stevenson, president of a union local representing baggage handlers, on the failure of an automated baggage system at Denver’s airport.
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It was 42 years ago today…
August 27, 1963: W.E.B. DuBois dies at the age of 95.
DuBois had been living in Ghana...after renouncing his U.S. citizenship earlier that year.
Imagine if we all moved to another country and renounced our U.S. citizenship? Let’s see corporate America and the U.S. military operate without anyone living here.
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