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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Is Spain Too Big to Fail? Are We?
The following was in the New York Times on the day before Thanksgiving, 2010. It describes with stark clarity the vicious debt whirlpool that Spain is in the grips of. I wonder what Paul Krugman would say about this. I suppose that, someday, the United States could find … Continue reading
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Swine Flu Quote of the Day
John Donne’s “Meditation 17″ in 1624: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, … Continue reading
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Mexico City Swine Flu: Evolution Happens
Just ask Mexico’s national Health Secretary, Jose Cordova. The Los Angeles Times today: “We have confirmation that this is a mutant of a virus that comes from pigs that . . . never had provoked an epidemic, that is, had … Continue reading
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John Donne’s “Batter my heart, three-person’d God”
Holy Sonnet XIV Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 